Molokai
Molokaʻi or Molokai is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the Hawaiian Islands archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Maui and Kalawao counties in Hawaii, United States
- Also known as: “Molocai”, “Moloka‘i”, “Moloka’i”, “Molokaʻi”, “Moratai”, and “Mororai”
- Historically known as: “Morokoi” and “Morotoi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kualapuʻu.
Kualapuʻu
Village
Photo: Sanba38, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kualapuʻu is a census-designated place on the island of Molokai in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The population was 2,110 at the 2020 census. Kualapuʻu can be literally translated as "hill overturned", but is thought to be a corruption of Puʻuʻuala: "sweet potato hill".
Molokai
- Category: landform
- Location: Maui County, Hawaii, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Molokai from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Molokai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Molokai”
- Arabic: “مولوكاي”
- Asturian: “Molokaʻi”
- Basque: “Molokai”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Малакаі”
- Belarusian: “Малакаі”
- Catalan: “Molokaʻi”
- Catalan: “Molokai”
- Cebuano: “Moloka‘i”
- Chinese: “摩洛凯岛”
- Chinese: “摩洛凱島”
- Chinese: “莫洛凱島”
- Croatian: “Molokai”
- Czech: “Molokai”
- Danish: “Moloka’i”
- Danish: “Molokai”
- Dutch: “Molokai”
- Dutch: “Molokaï”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مولوكاى”
- Esperanto: “Molokai”
- Estonian: “Molokai”
- Finnish: “Moloka’i”
- Finnish: “Molokai”
- French: “Moloka’i”
- French: “Molokaʻi”
- French: “Molokai”
- Galician: “Molokai - Moloka’i”
- Galician: “Molokai”
- German: “Moloka’i”
- German: “Molokaʻi”
- German: “Molokai”
- Greek: “Μολοκάι”
- Hawaiian: “Moloka‘i”
- Hawaiian: “Molokaʻi”
- Hebrew: “מולוקאי”
- Hungarian: “Molokai”
- Indonesian: “Moloka’i”
- Indonesian: “Molokai”
- Irish: “Molokaʻi”
- Irish: “Molokai”
- Italian: “Molokai”
- Japanese: “モロカイ島”
- Korean: “몰로카이섬”
- Latvian: “Molokai”
- Lithuanian: “Molokai”
- Malay: “Molokai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Molokai”
- Norwegian: “Molokai”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Molokai”
- Persian: “مولوکای”
- Polish: “Molokaʻi”
- Polish: “Molokai”
- Portuguese: “Molokai”
- Russian: “Молокаи”
- Serbian: “Молокаи”
- Serbian: “Молокај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Molokai”
- Slovenian: “Moloka’i”
- Slovenian: “Molokai”
- Slovenian: “Molokaj”
- South Azerbaijani: “مولوکائی”
- Spanish: “Molokaʻi”
- Spanish: “Molokai”
- Swedish: “Moloka’i”
- Swedish: “Molokai”
- Tagalog: “Molokai”
- Thai: “โมโลไก”
- Turkish: “Molokai”
- Ukrainian: “Молокаї”
- Ukrainian: “Молокай”
- Urdu: “مولوکائی”
- Vietnamese: “Molokai”
- Welsh: “Molokaʻi”
- Western Frisian: “Molokaï”
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