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.

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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.

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" 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

GeoNames ID

1559582

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Also 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
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