Palmyra Atoll

Palmyra Atoll is an uninhabited atoll in the Line Islands in Micronesia, 1,105 mi south of , about half way between and . Its nearest neighbor is uninhabited Kingman Reef to the northwest; the nearest inhabited islands are those of .
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  • Type: Island with 10 residents
  • Description: uninhabited Pacific atoll and unorganized incorporated U.S. territory
  • Also known as: “Palmyra”, “Palmyra Island”, and “United States Territory of Palmyra Island”

Palmyra Atoll

Latitude of center
5.8822° or 5° 52′ 56″ north
Longitude of center
-162.0749° or 162° 4′ 30″ west
Population
10
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
United Nations Location Code
UM PAL
Open­Street­Map ID
node 356696542
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
5854952
Wiki­data ID
Q123076
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Satellite Map

Discover Palmyra Atoll from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Palmyra Atoll” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Palmyra-atol”
  • Afrikaans: “Palmyra”
  • Afrikaans: “Palmyraatol”
  • Amharic: “ፓልሚራ አቶል”
  • Arabic: “جزر بالميرا المرجانية”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة أتول بالميرا”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بالميرا المرجانية”
  • Armenian: “Պալմիրա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palmira Atolu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palmira rifi”
  • Basque: “Palmyra atoloia”
  • Basque: “Palmyra Atoloia”
  • Bavarian: “Palmyra”
  • Belarusian: “Атол Пальміра”
  • Belarusian: “Пальміра”
  • Bengali: “পলাইরা এটল”
  • Bengali: “পালমিরা অ্যাটল”
  • Bosnian: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Bosnian: “Palmyra atoll”
  • Bulgarian: “Атол Палмира”
  • Bulgarian: “Палмира”
  • Catalan: “atol Palmyra”
  • Catalan: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Cebuano: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Chechen: “Пальмира”
  • Chinese: “Palmyra Khoân-chiau”
  • Chinese: “巴尔米拉环礁”
  • Chinese: “巴爾米拉環礁”
  • Chinese: “巴美拉環礁”
  • Chinese: “帕尔米拉环礁”
  • Chinese: “帕爾邁拉環礁”
  • Chinese: “帕邁拉環礁”
  • Cornish: “Enesik Palmyra”
  • Croatian: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Croatian: “Palmyra”
  • Czech: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Czech: “Palmyra”
  • Danish: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Dutch: “Palmyra atol”
  • Dutch: “Palmyra-atol”
  • Dutch: “Palmyra”
  • Esperanto: “Palmiro”
  • Estonian: “Palmyra atoll”
  • Faroese: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Finnish: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Finnish: “Palmyran atolli”
  • French: “Atoll de Palmyra”
  • French: “Atoll de Palmyre”
  • French: “atoll Palmyra”
  • French: “Atoll Palmyra”
  • French: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • French: “Palmyra”
  • Galician: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Georgian: “პალმირა”
  • German: “Palmyra-Atoll”
  • German: “Palmyra”
  • German: “UM-95”
  • Greek: “Ατόλη Παλμύρα”
  • Greek: “Ατόλλη Παλμύρα”
  • Greek: “Παλμύρα Ατόλλη”
  • Gujarati: “પાલ્મીરા એટોલ”
  • Hausa: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Hebrew: “אטול פאלמירה”
  • Hebrew: “אטול פלמירה”
  • Hindi: “पाल्मीरा एटोल”
  • Hungarian: “Palmyra-atoll”
  • Icelandic: “Palmyra-rif”
  • Icelandic: “Palmyraeyja”
  • Icelandic: “Palmýraeyja”
  • Ido: “Atolo Palmyra”
  • Ido: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Ido: “Palmyra Atolo”
  • Indonesian: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Indonesian: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Palmyra”
  • Italian: “atollo di Palmyra”
  • Italian: “atollo Palmyra”
  • Italian: “Palmyra”
  • Japanese: “パルミラ島”
  • Japanese: “パルミラ環礁”
  • Javanese: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಲ್ಮಿರಾ ಅಟಾಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Пальмира (атолл)”
  • Kazakh: “Пальмира атоллы”
  • Kazakh: “Пальмира”
  • Kirghiz: “Пальмира атоллу”
  • Kirghiz: “Пальмира Аттолл”
  • Korean: “팔미라 섬”
  • Korean: “팔미라 환초”
  • Latvian: “Palmiras atols”
  • Ligurian: “Atollo Palmyra”
  • Limburgan: “Palmyra-atol”
  • Lithuanian: “Palmyros atolas”
  • Lombard: “Atoll de Palmyra”
  • Macedonian: “Палмирски Атол”
  • Malay: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Marathi: “पाल्मीरा एटोल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palmyra Khoân-chiau”
  • Mingrelian: “პალმირაშ ატოლი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Palmyra Atol”
  • Northern Frisian: “Palmyra-Atol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palmyra-atollen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palmyraatollen”
  • Norwegian: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Oromo: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਲਮੀਰਾ ਆਟਲ”
  • Persian: “آتل پالمیرا”
  • Persian: “جزیره مرجانی پالمیرا”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ مرجانی پالمیرا”
  • Polish: “Palmyra (terytorium)”
  • Polish: “Palmyra”
  • Portuguese: “Atol de palmira”
  • Portuguese: “Atol de Palmyra”
  • Portuguese: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Portuguese: “UM-95”
  • Portuguese: “US-95”
  • Pushto: “پالمیرا آتول”
  • Romanian: “Atolul Palmyra”
  • Russian: “Атолл Пальмира”
  • Russian: “Пальмира”
  • Sardinian: “atollu Palmyra”
  • Sardinian: “Atollu Palmyra”
  • Scots: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Serbian: “Palmira”
  • Serbian: “Атол Малмура”
  • Serbian: “Атол Палмира”
  • Serbian: “Острво Палмира”
  • Serbian: “Палмира Атол”
  • Serbian: “Палмира”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atol Palmajra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palmajra atol”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palmyra Atol”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palmyra”
  • Shan: “ပႄးလ်မၢႆႇရႃႇဢထေႃး”
  • Sicilian: “Atollu di Palmyra”
  • Sicilian: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Sinhala: “පැල්මයිරා ඇටෝල්”
  • Sinhala: “පැල්මයිරා දුපත් සමුහය”
  • Slovak: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Slovak: “Palmyra”
  • Slovenian: “Palmyra”
  • Somali: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Spanish: “Atolon Palmira”
  • Spanish: “Atolón Palmira”
  • Spanish: “Atolon palmyra”
  • Spanish: “Atolón Palmyra”
  • Sundanese: “Atol Palmyra”
  • Swahili: “Atoli ya Palmyra”
  • Swedish: “Palmyraatollen”
  • Tajik: “Атоли Палмира”
  • Tamil: “பலமிரா அடால்”
  • Tamil: “பால்மைரா பவளத்தீவு”
  • Tatar: “Пальмира атоллы”
  • Telugu: “పాల్మయిరా అటోల్”
  • Thai: “พอลไมราอะทอลล์”
  • Thai: “แพลไมราอะทอลล์”
  • Turkish: “Palmyra Atolü”
  • Ukrainian: “атол Пальміра”
  • Ukrainian: “Пальміра”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ پالمیرا”
  • Uzbek: “Palmira atoli”
  • Venetian: “atoło Palmyra”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Palmyra”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo san hô Palmyra”
  • Vietnamese: “Palmyra Atoll”
  • Vietnamese: “Palmyra”
  • Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ پالمیرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴尔米拉环礁”
  • Yue Chinese: “帕邁拉環礁”

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