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Mariana Islands

The Mariana Islands, also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the north-western Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.
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  • Type: Island with 159,000 residents
  • Description: archipelago in western North Pacific Ocean
  • Also known as: “Ladrone Islands”, “Ladrones”, “Mariana Archipelago”, “Marianne Archipelago”, “Marianne Islands”, “Mariannes”, “San Lazarus archipelago”, and “the Marianas”

Mariana Islands

Latitude of center
13.481° or 13° 28′ 52″ north
Longitude of center
144.736° or 144° 44′ 10″ east
Population
159,000
Elevation
406 metres (1,332 feet)
Geo­Names ID
6269450
Wiki­data ID
Q153732
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mariana Islands” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mariana-eilande”
  • Arabic: “الماريانا”
  • Arabic: “جزر الماريانا”
  • Arabic: “جزر ماريانا”
  • Armenian: “Մարիանյան կղզիներ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Marianes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marian adaları”
  • Basque: “Mariana uharteak”
  • Basque: “Marianak”
  • Belarusian: “Марыянскія астравы”
  • Bosnian: “Marijani”
  • Bosnian: “Marijanska ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Marijanski otoci”
  • Breton: “Inizi Mariana”
  • Bulgarian: “Мариански острови”
  • Catalan: “illes Mariannes”
  • Catalan: “Illes Mariannes”
  • Catalan: “Marianes”
  • Catalan: “Mariannes”
  • Cebuano: “Mariana Islands - Guam”
  • Cebuano: “Mariana Islands”
  • Chamorro: “Islas Marianas”
  • Chamorro: “Islas Mariånas”
  • Chamorro: “Marianas”
  • Chinese: “Mariana Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “馬利安納群島”
  • Chinese: “馬里亞納群島”
  • Chinese: “馬里亞那群島”
  • Chinese: “馬里安那群島”
  • Chinese: “马利亚纳群岛”
  • Chinese: “马里亚纳群岛”
  • Croatian: “Islas de las Velas Latinas”
  • Croatian: “Islas de los Ladrones”
  • Croatian: “Jardines”
  • Croatian: “Las Marianas”
  • Croatian: “Mariana Islands”
  • Croatian: “Marianas”
  • Croatian: “Marijani”
  • Croatian: “Marijanski otoci”
  • Croatian: “Prazeres”
  • Czech: “Marianské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Mariánské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Mariany”
  • Danish: “Marianerne”
  • Dutch: “Ladrone-eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Mariana-eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Marianen eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Marianen”
  • Dutch: “Marianeneilanden”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر الماريانا”
  • Esperanto: “Marianaj Insuloj”
  • Esperanto: “Marianoj”
  • Estonian: “Mariaani saared”
  • Estonian: “Mariaani saarestik”
  • Estonian: “Mariaanid”
  • Faroese: “Marianoyggjar”
  • Finnish: “Mariaanit”
  • French: “Iles Mariannes”
  • French: “îles Mariannes”
  • French: “Îles Mariannes”
  • Galician: “Illas Marianas”
  • Georgian: “მარიანას არქიპელაგი”
  • Georgian: “მარიანას კუნძულები”
  • German: “Diebesinseln”
  • German: “Diebsinseln”
  • German: “Islas de Ladrones”
  • German: “Ladronen”
  • German: “Marianen”
  • German: “Marianeninseln”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Μαριάνα”
  • Hebrew: “איי מריאנה”
  • Hindi: “मारियाना द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Mariana-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Maríanaeyjar”
  • Ido: “Mariani”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Mariana”
  • Irish: “Na hOileáin Mháirianacha”
  • Italian: “Isole dei Ladri”
  • Italian: “Isole Marianne”
  • Italian: “Marianne”
  • Japanese: “マリアナ”
  • Japanese: “マリアナ諸島”
  • Kazakh: “Marïana araldarı”
  • Kazakh: “Мариана аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “مارىيانا ارالدارى”
  • Kirghiz: “Мариана аралдары”
  • Korean: “라드론”
  • Korean: “라드론섬”
  • Korean: “마리아나 열도”
  • Korean: “마리아나 제도”
  • Korean: “마리아나”
  • Latin: “Insulae Mariannae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Mariannenses”
  • Latvian: “Marianas salas”
  • Lithuanian: “Marianų salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Vagių salos”
  • Luxembourgish: “Marianen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Marianeninselen”
  • Macedonian: “Маријански Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Mariana”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Mariana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mariana Kûn-tó”
  • Mongolian: “Марианы арлууд”
  • N'Ko: “ߡߊ߬ߙߌ߬ߦߊߣߊ߬ ߕߌ߲”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mariaanen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marianaøyene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marianene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marianerøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marianane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marianaøyane”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marianaøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marianene”
  • Norwegian: “Marianene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Marianas”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਰੀਆਨਾ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Mariana”
  • Persian: “جزایر ماریانا”
  • Polish: “Mariany”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Mariańskie”
  • Portuguese: “As Marianas”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Mariana”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Marianas”
  • Portuguese: “Marianas”
  • Romanian: “Arhipelagul Marianelor”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Mariane”
  • Russian: “Мариандские острова”
  • Russian: “Марианские острова”
  • Russian: “Марианы”
  • Scots: “Mariana Islands”
  • Serbian: “Marijanska ostrva”
  • Serbian: “Маријанска острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Marijanski otoci”
  • Slovak: “Mariánske ostrovy”
  • Slovak: “Mariány”
  • Slovenian: “Mariansko otočje”
  • Slovenian: “Marijanski otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Marijansko otočje”
  • Spanish: “archipielago de las Marianas”
  • Spanish: “archipiélago de las Marianas”
  • Spanish: “Islas de las Velas Latinas”
  • Spanish: “islas de los Ladrones”
  • Spanish: “Islas de los Ladrones”
  • Spanish: “islas Marianas”
  • Spanish: “Islas Marianas”
  • Spanish: “Jardines”
  • Spanish: “Las Marianas”
  • Spanish: “Mariana Islands”
  • Spanish: “Marianas”
  • Swahili: “Funguvisiwa ya Mariana”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Mariana”
  • Swedish: “Islas de Ladrones”
  • Swedish: “Las Islas de Los Ladrones”
  • Swedish: “Mariana Islands - Guam”
  • Swedish: “Marianerna”
  • Swedish: “Marianeröarna”
  • Swedish: “Tjuvöarna” (historical)
  • Swiss German: “Marianen”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Mariana”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Marianas”
  • Tagalog: “Marianas”
  • Tajik: “Mariana”
  • Tajik: “Мариана”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Мариана”
  • Tamil: “மரியானா தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Мариан утраулары”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะมาเรียนา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Marianen”
  • Turkish: “Mariana Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Mariana Takımadaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Маріанські острови”
  • Uzbek: “Mariana orollari”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Mariana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Mariana”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Mariana”
  • Wu Chinese: “马里亚纳群岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬里亞納群島”

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