Palau

Palau is a group of more than 300 tropical islands in the area of the , to the southeast of the .
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The of Palau, also called Chelbacheb, are…

Palau

  • Type: Country with 21,700 residents
  • Description: island sovereign state in Oceania
  • Also known as: “Bela̱u”, “Belau Vabariik”, “Cộng hoà Palau”, “Cộng hòa Palau”, “la République des Palaos”, “Palau dásseváldi”, “Palau tääʹssväʹldd”, “Palau täsiväldi”, “Palau Vabariik”, “Palaui Köztársaság”, “Palaun tasavalta”, “Palauská republika”, “Peeloo”, “Pelew”, “Pelew islands”, “Pellew”, “PLW”, “pw”, “PW”, “Repubblika ta’ Palau”, “Republic of Belau”, “Republic of Palau”, “República de Palaos”, “Republiek Palau”, “Republik Palau”, “Republika Palav”, “Republiken Belau”, “Republiken Palau”, “Republikken Palau”, “Respubliko Palaŭo”, “Ri̱pobi̱lik Pa̱la̱u”, “Республика Палау”, “পালাউর অর্থনীতি”, “パラオ共和国”, and “帛琉共和國”
  • Postal code: 96940
  • Languages: Palauan, Sonsorol, English, Tobian, Japanese, Filipino, and Chinese
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, island country, republic, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
7.4169° or 7° 25′ 1″ north
Longitude of center
134.5413° or 134° 32′ 29″ east
Population
21,700
Area
458 km² (177 miles²)
Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)
Capital
Melekeok
Currency
Dollar (USD)
Phone code
680
Internet domain
.pw
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1511934680
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1559582
Wiki­data ID
Q695
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Palau” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Палау”
  • Achinese: “Palau”
  • Afrikaans: “Palau”
  • Akan: “Palau”
  • Albanian: “Palau”
  • Amharic: “ፐላው”
  • Amharic: “ፓላው”
  • Amis: “Palau”
  • Angika: “पालाउ”
  • Arabic: “بالاو”
  • Aragonese: “Palau”
  • Armenian: “Պալաու”
  • Arpitan: “Palaos”
  • Assamese: “পালাউ”
  • Asturian: “Paláu”
  • Atayal: “Palau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palau”
  • Balinese: “Palau”
  • Bambara: “Palawu”
  • Banjar: “Palau”
  • Bashkir: “Палау”
  • Basque: “Palau”
  • Bavarian: “Palau”
  • Belarusian: “Палау”
  • Belarusian: “Палаў”
  • Bengali: “পালাউ”
  • Betawi: “Palau”
  • Bishnupriya: “পালাউ”
  • Bislama: “Palau”
  • Bosnian: “Palau”
  • Breton: “Palau”
  • Bulgarian: “Палау”
  • Burmese: “ပလာအို”
  • Burmese: “ပလောင်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Palau”
  • Catalan: “República de Palau”
  • Cebuano: “Palau”
  • Central Bikol: “Palau”
  • Central Kurdish: “پالاو”
  • Chavacano: “Palau”
  • Chechen: “Палау”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎴᎠᏫ”
  • Cheyenne: “Palau”
  • Chinese: “帕劳 / 帛琉”
  • Chinese: “帕劳”
  • Chinese: “帕勞”
  • Chinese: “帛琉”
  • Choctaw: “Palau”
  • Chuvash: “Палау”
  • Cornish: “Palau”
  • Corsican: “Pelau”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Palau”
  • Croatian: “Palau”
  • Czech: “Palau”
  • Dagbani: “Palau”
  • Danish: “Palau”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕަލާއޫ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Palau”
  • Dotyali: “पलाउ”
  • Dutch: “Palau”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ལའུ”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ལཱཝ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Палау”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالاو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پالاو”
  • Esperanto: “Belaŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Palaŭo”
  • Estonian: “Belau”
  • Ewe: “Palau nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Palau”
  • Faroese: “Palau”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Palau”
  • Fijian: “Palau”
  • Finnish: “Palau”
  • French: “Palaos”
  • Fulah: “Palawu”
  • Gagauz: “Palau”
  • Galician: “Palau”
  • Ganda: “Palawu”
  • Georgian: “პალაუ”
  • German: “Palau”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Palau”
  • Gilaki: “پالاؤ”
  • Goan Konkani: “Palau”
  • Goan Konkani: “पलाऊ”
  • Goan Konkani: “पालाउ”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰𐍅”
  • Gothic: “𐍀𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿”
  • Greek: “Παλάου”
  • Guarani: “Paláu”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Palaos”
  • Gujarati: “પલાઉ”
  • Haitian: “Palao”
  • Haitian: “Palawo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Palau”
  • Hausa: “Palau”
  • Hebrew: “פאלאו”
  • Hebrew: “פלאו”
  • Hindi: “पलाउ”
  • Hindi: “पलाऊ”
  • Hungarian: “Palau”
  • Icelandic: “Palá”
  • Icelandic: “Palaú”
  • Ido: “Palau”
  • Igbo: “Palau”
  • Iloko: “Palau”
  • Inari Sami: “Palau”
  • Indonesian: “Palau”
  • Ingush: “Палау”
  • Interlingua: “Palau”
  • Interlingue: “Palau”
  • Inupiaq: “Palau”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Palau”
  • Irish: “Palau”
  • Italian: “Palau”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Palau”
  • Japanese: “パラオ”
  • Javanese: “Palau”
  • Kalaallisut: “Palau”
  • Kalmyk: “Паламудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಪಲಾವು”
  • Kannada: “ಪಲಾವ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Palau”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Палау”
  • Kashmiri: “پَلاو”
  • Kazakh: “Палау Республикасы”
  • Kazakh: “Палау”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ាឡាវ”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ាឡូ”
  • Khmer: “ផៅឡូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Palau”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kapalauhan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Palawu”
  • Kirghiz: “Палау”
  • Kölsch: “Palau”
  • Komering: “Palau”
  • Komi: “Палау”
  • Korean: “팔라우”
  • Kotava: “Belaua”
  • Kurdish: “Palau”
  • Ladin: “Palau”
  • Ladino: “Palau”
  • Lao: “ປາລາວ”
  • Latin: “Belavia”
  • Latin: “Insulae Palauenses”
  • Latin: “Palau”
  • Latvian: “Palau”
  • Ligurian: “Palau”
  • Limburgan: “Palau”
  • Lingala: “Palau”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Belau”
  • Literary Chinese: “帛琉”
  • Lithuanian: “Palau”
  • Livvi: “Palau”
  • Lombard: “Palau”
  • Low German: “Palau”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Palau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Palau”
  • Macedonian: “Палау”
  • Malagasy: “Palao”
  • Malagasy: “Palaô”
  • Malay: “Palau”
  • Malayalam: “പലാവു”
  • Maltese: “Palau”
  • Maltese: “Palaw”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯥꯂꯥꯎ”
  • Manx: “Palau”
  • Maori: “Pārau”
  • Marathi: “पलाउ”
  • Marathi: “पलाऊ”
  • Mazanderani: “پالائو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Palau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palau”
  • Minangkabau: “Palau”
  • Mingrelian: “პალაუ”
  • Mongolian: “Палау”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پالاو”
  • Nauru: “Parau”
  • Nepali: “पलाउ”
  • Nepali: “पालाउ”
  • Newari: “पलाउ”
  • North Ndebele: “Palau”
  • Northern Frisian: “Paalau”
  • Northern Sami: “Palau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palau”
  • Norwegian: “Palau”
  • Novial: “Palau”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Palau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Belau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palau”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Palau”
  • Oriya: “ପଲାଓ”
  • Oriya: “ପାଲାଉ”
  • Ossetian: “Палау”
  • Palauan: “Belau”
  • Palauan: “Beluu er a Belau”
  • Pali: “पलाऊ”
  • Pampanga: “Palau”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਲਾਉ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਲਾਊ”
  • Papiamento: “Palau”
  • Persian: “پالائو”
  • Picard: “Palaos”
  • Piemontese: “Palau”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Palau”
  • Polish: “Palau”
  • Portuguese: “Palau”
  • Pushto: “پالاو”
  • Pushto: “پالايو”
  • Pushto: “پلاؤ”
  • Quechua: “Palaos”
  • Quechua: “Palaw”
  • Rakhine: “ပလောင်းသမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Palau”
  • Romansh: “Palau”
  • Rundi: “Palawu”
  • Russia Buriat: “Палау”
  • Russian: “Палау”
  • Sakizaya: “Palau”
  • Samoan: “Palau”
  • Samogitian: “Palau”
  • Sango: “Palau”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱞᱟᱣ”
  • Sardinian: “Palau (istadu)”
  • Sardinian: “Palau”
  • Scots: “Palau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Palabh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Palau”
  • Serbian: “Палау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palau”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႃႇလၢဝ်း”
  • Shona: “Palau”
  • Sicilian: “Palau”
  • Silesian: “Palau”
  • Sindhi: “پالائو”
  • Sindhi: “پلائو”
  • Sinhala: “පලාවු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Palau”
  • Slovak: “Palau”
  • Slovenian: “Palau”
  • Slovenian: “Palav”
  • Somali: “Balaaw”
  • Somali: “Balau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالاو”
  • Spanish: “Palaos”
  • Sundanese: “Palau”
  • Swahili: “Palau”
  • Swedish: “Palau”
  • Swiss German: “Palau”
  • Tagalog: “Palau”
  • Tagalog: “Palaw”
  • Tahitian: “Parau”
  • Tajik: “Палау”
  • Tajik: “Полоу”
  • Tamil: “பலாவு”
  • Tamil: “பாலோ”
  • Taroko: “Poryo”
  • Tatar: “Палау”
  • Telugu: “పలావు”
  • Telugu: “పాలావ్”
  • Thai: “ประเทศปาเลา”
  • Thai: “ปาเลา”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐปาเลา”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ལའུ།”
  • Tibetan: “པ་ལཽ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ፓላው”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Palau”
  • Tumbuka: “Palau”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “پالاو”
  • Turkish: “Palau”
  • Turkmen: “Palau”
  • Tyap: “Pa̱la̱u”
  • Udmurt: “Палау”
  • Uighur: “پالائۇ”
  • Uighur: “پالاۋ”
  • Ukrainian: “Палау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Palau”
  • Urdu: “پلاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Palau”
  • Venetian: “Palau”
  • Venetian: “Pałau”
  • Veps: “Palau”
  • Vietnamese: “Palau”
  • Volapük: “Palauvuäns”
  • Võro: “Belau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palau”
  • Welsh: “Palau”
  • Welsh: “Palaw”
  • Western Frisian: “Palau”
  • Western Mari: “Палау”
  • Western Panjabi: “پالاو”
  • Wolof: “Palau”
  • Wolof: “Palaw”
  • Wu Chinese: “帛琉”
  • Yakut: “Палау”
  • Yoruba: “Paalu”
  • Yoruba: “Páláù”
  • Yue Chinese: “帛琉”
  • Zeeuws: “Palau”
  • Zhuang: “Palau”
  • Zulu: “i-Palau”
  • “ma Pela”
  • “ma telo Pela”
  • “Palaos”

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