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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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Koror and Babeldaob.

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is the largest city in Palau. was also the capital until 2006, but the hamlet of Melekeok, some 20 km away, now has that honor.

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is the biggest island of Palau. The area of makes up over 70% of the land area of the entire Republic of Palau. It has about 30% of the country's population, with about 6,000 people living on it.

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The of Palau, also called Chelbacheb, are a collection of several hundred small limestone or coral uprises in the Southern Lagoon of Palau between and , now an incorporated part of Koror State.

Palau

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
.pw
Internet domain
680
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”
  • Bengali: “পালাউর অর্থনীতি”
  • Betawi: “Palau”
  • Bishnupriya: “পালাউ”
  • Bislama: “Palau”
  • Bosnian: “Palau”
  • Breton: “Palau”
  • Bulgarian: “Палау”
  • Burmese: “ပလာအို”
  • Burmese: “ပလောင်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Belau”
  • Catalan: “Palau”
  • Catalan: “República de Palau”
  • Cebuano: “Palau”
  • Central Bikol: “Palau”
  • Central Kurdish: “پالاو”
  • Chavacano: “Palau”
  • Chechen: “Палау”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᎴᎠᏫ”
  • Cheyenne: “Palau”
  • Chinese: “Palau”
  • Chinese: “帕劳 / 帛琉”
  • Chinese: “帕劳”
  • Chinese: “帕勞”
  • Chinese: “帛琉”
  • Chinese: “帛琉共和國”
  • 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”
  • Dutch: “PLW”
  • Dutch: “PW”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Palau”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ལའུ”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ལཱཝ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Палау”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بالاو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پالاو”
  • Esperanto: “Belaŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Palaŭo”
  • Esperanto: “PW”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Palaŭo”
  • Estonian: “Belau Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Belau”
  • Estonian: “Palau Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Palau”
  • Ewe: “Palau nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Palau”
  • Faroese: “Palau”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Palau”
  • Fijian: “Palau”
  • Finnish: “Palau”
  • Finnish: “Palaun tasavalta”
  • French: “Belau”
  • French: “la République des Palaos”
  • French: “Palaos”
  • French: “Palau”
  • French: “PW”
  • Fulah: “Palawu”
  • Gagauz: “Palau”
  • Galician: “Palau”
  • Ganda: “Palawu”
  • Georgian: “პალაუ”
  • German: “Palau”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Palau”
  • Gilaki: “پالاؤ”
  • Goan Konkani: “Palau”
  • Goan Konkani: “पलाऊ”
  • 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”
  • Hindi: “पालाउ”
  • Hungarian: “Palau”
  • Hungarian: “Palaui Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Palá”
  • Icelandic: “Palaú”
  • Ido: “Palau”
  • Igbo: “Palau”
  • Iloko: “Palau”
  • Inari Sami: “Palau täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Palau”
  • Indonesian: “Palau”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Palau”
  • Ingush: “Палау”
  • Interlingua: “Palau”
  • Interlingue: “Palau”
  • Inupiaq: “Palau”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Palau”
  • Irish: “Palau”
  • Italian: “Palau”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Palau”
  • Japanese: “パラオ”
  • Japanese: “パラオ共和国”
  • 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”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika ta’ Palau”
  • 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 dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Palau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Palau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palau”
  • Norwegian: “Palau”
  • Novial: “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”
  • Russian: “Республика 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 tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Palau”
  • Slovak: “Palau”
  • Slovak: “Palauská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Palau”
  • Slovenian: “Palav”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Palav”
  • Somali: “Balaaw”
  • Somali: “Balau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالاو”
  • Spanish: “Palaos”
  • Spanish: “Palau”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Palaos”
  • Spanish: “República de Palaos”
  • Sundanese: “Palau”
  • Swahili: “Palau”
  • Swedish: “Belau”
  • Swedish: “Palau”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Belau”
  • Swedish: “Republiken 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”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Palau”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “پالاو”
  • Turkish: “Palau”
  • Turkmen: “Palau”
  • Tyap: “Bela̱u”
  • Tyap: “Pa̱la̱u”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Pa̱la̱u”
  • Udmurt: “Палау”
  • Uighur: “پالائۇ”
  • Uighur: “پالاۋ”
  • Ukrainian: “Палау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Palau”
  • Urdu: “پلاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Palau”
  • Venetian: “Palau”
  • Venetian: “Pałau”
  • Veps: “Palau”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Palau”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa 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”
  • “Belau”
  • “ma telo Pela”
  • “Palaos”
  • “Palau”

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