Pemba Island

Pemba Island is an island forming part of the Zanzibar Archipelago in located approximately 50 km north of , the largest island in the archipelago and main visitor destination.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Chake Chake.

is in Pemba Island. is the main town of Pemba Island. It is close to the airport which serves the island.

Pemba Island

Latitude
-5.1667° or 5° 10′ south
Longitude
39.8° or 39° 48′ east
Population
407,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
6G6XRRM2+82
Geo­Names ID
150737
Wiki­data ID
Q208664
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pemba Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Pemba
  • Arabic: جزيرة بمبا
  • Basque: Pemba
  • Belarusian: Востраў Пемба
  • Belarusian: Пемба
  • Belarusian: Пэмба
  • Bulgarian: Пемба
  • Catalan: Illa de Pemba
  • Catalan: Pemba
  • Cebuano: Pemba Island
  • Chinese: 奔巴岛
  • Chinese: 奔巴島
  • Croatian: Pemba
  • Czech: Pemba
  • Danish: Pemba
  • Dutch: Pemba
  • Esperanto: Pembo
  • Estonian: Pemba saar
  • Estonian: Pemba
  • Finnish: Pemba
  • French: Ile de Pemba
  • French: Pemba
  • Galician: Pemba
  • Georgian: პემბა
  • German: Pemba
  • Greek: Νήσος Πέμπα
  • Hebrew: פמבה
  • Indonesian: Pulau Pemba
  • Italian: Al Kuh Dra
  • Italian: isola di Pemba
  • Italian: Pemba
  • Japanese: ペンバ島
  • Korean: 펨바섬
  • Kotava: Pemba
  • Latvian: Pemba
  • Lithuanian: Pemba
  • Macedonian: Пемба
  • Malagasy: Nosy Pemba
  • Malay: Pulau Pemba
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Pemba
  • Norwegian: Pemba
  • Ossetian: Пембæ
  • Persian: جزیره پمبا
  • Polish: Pemba
  • Portuguese: Pemba
  • Romanian: Insula Pemba
  • Russian: Пемба
  • Scots: Pemba Island
  • Serbian: Pemba
  • Serbian: Пемба
  • Shona: Chitsuwa che Pemba
  • Slovenian: otok Pemba
  • Slovenian: Pemba Island
  • Slovenian: Pemba
  • Spanish: Isla de Pemba
  • Spanish: Isla Pemba
  • Spanish: Pemba
  • Swahili: Kisiwa cha Pemba
  • Swahili: Pemba
  • Swedish: Pemba Island
  • Swedish: Pemba
  • Thai: เกาะเพมบา
  • Turkish: Pemba Adası
  • Ukrainian: Пемба
  • Urdu: جزیرہ پمبا
  • Vietnamese: Pemba
  • Welsh: Ynys Pemba
  • Western Mari: Пемба ошмаоты
  • Western Panjabi: جزیرہ پمبا
  • Zulu: Pemba Island

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pemba Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.