Molokai

Molokaʻi or Molokai is the fifth most populated of the eight major islands that make up the archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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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.

Village
is a census-designated place on the island of Molokai in , , United States. The population was 2,110 at the 2020 census. can be literally translated as "hill overturned", but is thought to be a corruption of Puʻuʻuala: "sweet potato hill".

Molokai

Latitude
21.1383° or 21° 8′ 18″ north
Longitude
-157.0125° or 157° 0′ 45″ west
Population
7,350
Elevation
919 feet (280 metres)
Open location code
73H44XQQ+82
Geo­Names ID
5851218
Wiki­data ID
Q193253
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Satellite Map

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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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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Molokai”. Photo: Travis.Thurston, CC BY-SA 3.0.