Palau
Palau is a group of more than 500 tropical islands in the Micronesia area of the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast of the Philippines.Popular Destinations
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 small collection of limestone or coral… Photo: Binter, Public domain.Palau
- Type: Country
- Description: island sovereign state in Oceania
- Categories: sovereign state, island nation and republic
- Location: Micronesia, Oceania
- Postal code: 96940
- Languages: Palauan, Sonsorol, English, Tobian, Japanese, Filipino and Chinese
- Neighbors: Federated States of Micronesia, Indonesia and Philippines
Latitude of center 7.4169° or 7° 25' 0.8" north | Longitude of center 134.5413° or 134° 32' 28.7" east |
Population 21,700 | Elevation 242 metres (794 feet) |
Capital Melekeok | Area 458 km² (177 miles²) |
Currency Dollar (USD) | Phone code 680 |
Internet domain .pw | 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: ፐላው
- Amharic: ፓላው
- Arabic: Palau
- Arabic: بالاو
- Aragonese: Palau
- Armenian: Պալաու
- Arpitan: Palaos
- Asturian: Paláu
- Avaric: Belaua
- Azerbaijani: Palau
- Azerbaijani: Palav
- Balinese: Palau
- Bambara: Palawu
- Banjar: Palau
- Bashkir: Палау
- Basque: Palau
- Bavarian: Palau
- Belarusian: Палау
- Belarusian: Палаў
- Bengali: পালাউ
- Bengali: পালাউর অর্থনীতি
- Bishnupriya: পালাউ
- Bosnian: Palau
- Breton: Palau
- Bulgarian: Палау
- Burmese: ပလောင်းနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Palau
- Catalan: República de Palau
- Cebuano: Palau
- Central Bikol: Palau
- Central Kurdish: پالاو
- Chavacano: Palau
- Chechen: Палау
- 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 Tatar: Palau
- Croatian: Palau
- Czech: Palau
- Danish: Palau
- Dhivehi: ޕަލާއޫ
- Dimli (individual language): Palau
- Dotyali: पलाउ
- Dutch: PLW
- Dutch: PW
- Dutch: Palau
- Eastern Mari: Палау
- Egyptian Arabic: بالاو
- Egyptian Arabic: پالاو
- English: Belau
- English: Pelew
- English: Republic of Belau
- English: Republic of Palau
- English: pw
- English: 🇵🇼
- 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
- Fiji Hindi: Palau
- Fijian: Palau
- Finnish: Palau
- Finnish: Palaun tasavalta
- French: Belau
- French: PW
- French: Palaos
- French: Palau
- French: la République des Palaos
- Fulah: Palawu
- Gagauz: Palau
- Galician: Palau - Belau
- Galician: Palau
- Ganda: Palawu
- Georgian: პალაუ
- German: Palau
- Goan Konkani: Palau
- Goan Konkani: पलाऊ
- Greek: Παλάου
- Guarani: Paláu
- Guianese Creole French: Palaos
- Gujarati: પલાઉ
- Haitian: Palao
- Hakka Chinese: Palau
- Hausa: Palau
- Hebrew: פאלאו
- Hebrew: פלאו
- Hindi: पलाउ
- Hindi: पलाऊ
- Hindi: पालाउ
- Hungarian: Palau
- Hungarian: Palaui Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Palá
- Ido: Palau
- Iloko: Palau
- Inari Sami: Palau
- Inari Sami: Palau täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Palau
- Ingush: Палау
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Palau
- Interlingue: 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
- Kalmyk: Палаумудин Орн
- Kannada: ಪಲಾವು
- Kannada: ಪಲಾವ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Palau
- Kazakh: Палау Республикасы
- Khmer: ប៉ាឡាវ
- Kikuyu: Palau
- Kinyarwanda: Palawu
- Kirghiz: Палау
- Korean: 팔라우
- Kotava: Belaua
- Kurdish: Palau
- Kurdish: پالاو
- Kölsch: Palau
- Ladin: Palau
- Lao: Palau
- Latin: Belavia
- 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
- Malay: Palau
- Malayalam: പലാവു
- Maltese: Palau
- Maltese: Palaw
- Maltese: Repubblika ta’ Palau
- Manx: Palau
- Maori: Pārau
- Marathi: पलाउ
- Marathi: पलाऊ
- Min Dong Chinese: Palau
- Min Nan Chinese: Palau
- Minangkabau: Palau
- Mingrelian: პალაუ
- Mongolian: Палау
- Moroccan Arabic: پالاو
- Moroccan Arabic: پالاوس
- Nauru: Parau
- Nepali: पलाउ
- Nepali: पालाउ
- Newari: पलाउ
- North Ndebele: Palau
- 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): Belau
- Occitan (post 1500): Palau
- Oriya: ପଲାଓ
- Oriya: ପାଲାଉ
- Ossetian: Палау
- Palauan: Belau
- Palauan: Beluu er a Belau
- Pampanga: Palau
- Panjabi: ਪਲਾਊ
- Papiamento: Palau
- Persian: پالائو
- Piemontese: Palau
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Palau
- Polish: Palau
- Portuguese: Categoria:Palau
- Portuguese: Palau
- Pushto: پالاو
- Pushto: پالایو
- Quechua: Palaw
- 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: Palau
- Serbian: Палау
- Serbo-Croatian: Palau
- Shan: မိူင်းပႃႇလၢဝ်း
- Shona: Palau
- Sicilian: Palau
- Silesian: Palau
- Sindhi: پالائو
- Sinhala: පලාවු
- Skolt Sami: Palau
- Skolt Sami: Palau tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Palau
- Slovenian: Palau
- Slovenian: Palav
- Somali: Balau
- Somali: Palau
- 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
- 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
- Udmurt: Палау
- Uighur: پالاۋ
- Ukrainian: Палау
- Ukrainian: Республіка Палау
- Upper Sorbian: Palau
- Urdu: پلاؤ
- Uzbek: Palau
- Venetian: Palau
- 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
- Wu Chinese: 帛琉
- Yakut: Палау
- Yoruba: Orílẹ́ède Paalu
- Yoruba: Páláù
- Yue Chinese: 帛琉
- Zeeuws: Palau
- Zhuang: Palau
- Zulu: i-Palau
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