Palau
Palau is a group of more than 300 tropical islands in the Micronesia area of the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast of the Philippines.Popular Destinations
Koror
Koror is the largest city in Palau. Koror was also the capital until 2006, but the hamlet of Melekeok, some 20 km away, now has that honor. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.Babeldaob
Babeldaob is the largest island in the island nation of the Republic of Palau. Photo: Binter, Public domain.Rock Islands
The Rock Islands of Palau, also called Chelbacheb, are a collection of several hundred small limestone or coral uprises in the Southern Lagoon of Palau between Koror and Peleliu, now an incorporated part of Koror State. Photo: Binter, Public domain.- Type: Country
- Description: island sovereign state in Oceania
- Categories: sovereign state, island nation, republic and locality
- Location: Micronesia, Oceania
- Postal code: 96940
- Languages: Palauan, Sonsorol, English, Tobian, Japanese, Filipino; Pilipino and Chinese
- Neighbors: Federated States of Micronesia, Indonesia and Philippines
Palau
Latitude of center
7.4169° or 7° 25' 1" northLongitude of center
134.5413° or 134° 32' 29" eastPopulation
21,700Area
458 km² (177 miles²)Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)Capital
MelekeokCurrency
Dollar (USD)Phone code
.pwInternet domain
680OpenStreetMap ID
node 1511934680GeoNames ID
1559582Also Known As
- Achinese: Palau
- Afar: Palau
- Afrikaans: Palau
- Akan: Palau
- Albanian: Palau
- Amharic: Palau
- Amharic: ፐላው
- Amharic: ፓላው
- Amis: Palau
- Arabic: Palau
- Arabic: بالاو
- Aragonese: Palau
- Armenian: Պալաու
- Assamese: পালাউ
- Asturian; Bable: Paláu
- Avaric: Belaua
- Azerbaijani: Palau
- Balinese: Palau
- Bambara: Palawu
- Banjar: Palau
- Bashkir: Палау
- Basque: Palau
- Bavarian: Palau
- Belarusian: Палау
- Belarusian: Палаў
- Bengali: পালাউ
- Bengali: পালাউর অর্থনীতি
- Bishnupriya: পালাউ
- Bislama: Palau
- Bosnian: Palau
- Breton: Palau
- Bulgarian: Палау
- Burmese: ပလာအို
- Burmese: ပလောင်းနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Palau
- Catalan: República de Palau
- Cebuano: Palau
- Central Bicolano: 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
- Crimean Turkish; Crimean Tatar: Palau
- Croatian: Palau
- Czech: Palau
- Danish: Palau
- Dimli: Palau
- Divehi: ޕަލާއޫ
- Dutch: PLW
- Dutch: PW
- Dutch: Palau
- Dzongkha: པ་ལའུ
- Eastern Mari: Палау
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: بالاو
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: پالاو
- English, Old (ca.450-1100): Palau
- English: Belau
- English: Pelew
- English: Pelew islands
- English: Republic of Belau
- English: Republic of Palau
- English: pw
- Esperanto: Belaŭo
- Esperanto: PW
- Esperanto: Palaŭo
- Esperanto: Respubliko Palaŭo
- Estonian: Belau
- Estonian: Belau Vabariik
- Estonian: Palau
- Estonian: Palau Vabariik
- Ewe: Palau nutome
- Extremaduran: Palau
- Faroese: Palau
- Fijian: Palau
- Fijian Hindustani: Palau
- Finnish: Palau
- Finnish: Palaun tasavalta
- Franco-Provençal: Palaos
- French: Belau
- French: PW
- French: Palaos
- French: Palau
- French: la République des Palaos
- Frisian: Palau
- Fulah: Palawu
- Gaelic (Scots): Palabh
- Gaelic (Scots): Palau
- Gagauz: Palau
- Gallegan: Palau - Belau
- Gallegan: Palau
- Ganda: Palawu
- Georgian: პალაუ
- German: Palau
- Goanese Konkani: Palau
- Goanese Konkani: पलाऊ
- Greek: Παλάου
- Guarani: Paláu
- Guianese Creole French: Palaos
- Gujarati: પલાઉ
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Palao
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Palawo
- Hakka Chinese: Palau
- Hausa: Palau
- Hebrew: פאלאו
- Hebrew: פלאו
- Hindi: पलाउ
- Hindi: पलाऊ
- Hindi: पालाउ
- Hungarian: Palau
- Hungarian: Palaui Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Palá
- Ido: Palau
- Igbo: Palau
- Iloko: Palau
- Inari Sami: Palau
- Inari Sami: Palau täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Palau
- Ingush: Палау
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Palau
- Interlingue: 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; Oirat: Паламудин Орн
- Kalmyk; Oirat: Палаумудин Орн
- Kannada: ಪಲಾವು
- Kannada: ಪಲಾವ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Palau
- Kashmiri: پَلاو
- Kazakh: Палау
- Kazakh: Палау Республикасы
- Khmer: ប៉ាឡាវ
- Khmer: ផៅឡូ
- Kikuyu: Palau
- Kinyarwanda: Palawu
- Kirghiz: Палау
- Korean: 팔라우
- Kurdish: Palau
- Kölsch: Palau
- Ladin: Palau
- Lao: Palau
- Lao: ປາລາວ
- Latin: Belavia
- Latin: Insulae Palauenses
- Latin: Palau
- Latvian: Palau
- Letzeburgesch: Palau
- Ligurian: Palau
- Limburgish, Limburger, Limburgan: Palau
- Lingala: Palau
- Lithuanian: Palau
- Livvi: Palau
- Lombard: Palau
- Low German; Low Saxon: Palau
- Luba-Katanga: Palau
- Macedonian: Палау
- Malagasy: Palao
- Malay (generic): Palau
- Malayalam: പലാവു
- Maltese: Palau
- Maltese: Palaw
- Maltese: Repubblika ta’ Palau
- Manipuri: ꯄꯥꯂꯥꯎ
- Manx: Palau
- Maori: Pārau
- Marathi: पलाउ
- Marathi: पलाऊ
- Min Dong Chinese: Palau
- Min Nan Chinese: Palau
- Minangkabau: Palau
- Mingrelian: პალაუ
- Mongolian: Палау
- Mongolian: ꯄꯥꯂꯥꯎ
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: پالاو
- Moroccan Spoken Arabic: پالاوس
- Nauru: Parau
- Ndebele, North: Palau
- Nepali: पलाउ
- Nepali: पालाउ
- Newari: पलाउ
- Northern Frisian: Paalau
- Northern Sami: Palau
- Northern Sami: Palau dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Palau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Palau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Palau
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Palau
- Novial: Palau
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Belau
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Palau
- Oriya: ପଲାଓ
- Oriya: ପାଲାଉ
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Палау
- Palauan: Belau
- Palauan: Beluu er a Belau
- Pampanga: Palau
- Panjabi: ਪਲਾਉ
- Panjabi: ਪਲਾਊ
- Papiamento: Palau
- Persian: پالائو
- Piemontese: Palau
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Palau
- Polish: Palau
- Portuguese: Categoria:Palau
- Portuguese: Palau
- Pushto: پالاو
- Pushto: پالایو
- Pushto: پلاؤ
- Quechua: Palaos
- Quechua: Palaw
- Raeto-Romance: Palau
- Romanian: Palau
- Rundi: Palawu
- Russia Buriat: Палау
- Russian: Палау
- Russian: Республика Палау
- Samoan: Palau
- Sango: Palau
- Santali: ᱯᱟᱞᱟᱣ
- Sardinian: Palau (istadu)
- Sardinian: Palau
- Schwyzerdütsch: Palau
- Scots: Palau
- Serbian: Палау
- Serbo-Croatian: Palau
- Shan: မိူင်းပႃႇလၢဝ်း
- Shona: Palau
- Sicilian: Palau
- Sindhi: پالائو
- Sindhi: پلائو
- Sinhalese: පලාවු
- Skolt Sami: Palau
- Skolt Sami: Palau tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Palau
- Slovenian: Palau
- Slovenian: Palav
- Somali: Balaaw
- Somali: Balau
- Sorbian, Upper: Palau
- South Azerbaijani: پالاو
- Spanish: Palaos
- Spanish: Palau
- Spanish: Republica de Palaos
- Spanish: República de Palaos
- Sundanese: Palau
- Swahili (generic): Palau
- Swedish: Belau
- Swedish: Palau
- Swedish: Republiken Belau
- Swedish: Republiken 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 Spoken Arabic: پالاو
- Turkish: Palau
- Turkmen: Palau
- Udmurt: Палау
- Uighur: پالائۇ
- Uighur: پالاۋ
- Ukrainian: Палау
- Ukrainian: Республіка Палау
- Urdu: پلاؤ
- Uzbek: Palau
- Venetian: Palau
- Veps: Palau
- Vietnamese: Palau
- Volapük: Palauvuäns
- Waray (Philippines): Palau
- Welsh: Palau
- Welsh: Palaw
- 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
- Palaú
- ប៉ាឡូ
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