Pitcairn Islands

The Pitcairn Islands are a loosely grouped handful of tiny islands in the remote South Pacific, farther from any continent than any other inhabited island.
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  • Type: Country with 48 residents
  • Description: British overseas territory in the South Pacific
  • Also known as: “Đảo Pitcairn”, “Ilha de Pitcairn”, “Illa de Pitcairn”, “Insula Pitcairn”, “Ishujt Pitkairin”, “Jay Warren”, “Las Islas Pitcairn”, “Occas Island”, “Otoki Pitcairn”, “PCN”, “Picairn ostrva”, “Pisskern Aliеn”, “Pitcairn”, “Pitcairn Adası”, “Pitcairn Eiland”, “Pitcairn Eilande”, “Pitcairn Insulae”, “Pitcairn Island”, “Pitcairn Islands Group”, “Pitcairn otoci”, “Pitcairn-eilande”, “Pitcairn-Inselen”, “Pitcairn-Inseln”, “Pitcairn-Insln”, “Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands”, “Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands”, “Pitcairnin saaret”, “Pitcairninsaaret”, “Pitcairno salos”, “Pitcairnøerne”, “Pitcairnøyane”, “Pitcairnski otoki”, “Pitcairny”, “Pitcearnīeg”, “Pitkarno”, “Pitkern Ostrva”, “Pitkērna salas”, “Pitkērna, Hendersona, Djusi un Oeno Salas”, “Pitkêrneilannen”, “Pitkerno”, “Pitkernski Otoci”, “pn”, “PN”, “The Pitcairn Islands”, “Ynys Pitcairn”, “Νησιά Πίτκερν”, “Πίτκαιρν Νήσοι”, “Выспы Піткейрна”, “Острво Питкерн”, “Остров Питкерн”, “Остров Питкэрн”, “Питкарнска острва”, “Питкерн Острва”, “Піткернські острови”, “פיטקאירן”, “بيتكرن”, “جزایر پیت کرن”, “جزيرة بيتكيرن”, “جزیره پیت کرن”, “جزیره پیت‌کرن”, “جزیرهٔ پیت‌کرن”, “पिटकेम द्वीप समूह”, “ਪਿਟਕੇਰਨ, ਹੈਂਡਰਸਨ, ਡੂਸੀ ਅਤੇ ਈਨੋ ਟਾਪੂ”, “பிட்சைர்ன் இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ்”, “பிற்கான் தீவுகள்”, “పిట్‌కెయిర్న్”, “පිට්කේම් දූපත්”, “피트케언제도”, “피트케인 제도”, “피트케인제도”, “핏케언 섬”, “핏케언제도”, “ピトケアン”, “ピトケアン島”, “匹特揆綸島”, “皮特克恩岛”, “皮特克恩島”, “皮特凯恩”, “皮特凯恩岛”, “皮特凯恩行政区划”, “皮特康島”, “皮特开恩群岛”, and “皮特肯島”
  • Language: English

Pitcairn Islands

Latitude of center
-25.0658° or 25° 3′ 57″ south
Longitude of center
-130.1018° or 130° 6′ 6″ west
Population
48
Area
47 km² (18 miles²)
Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)
Capital
Adamstown
Currency
Dollar (NZD)
Phone code
870
Internet domain
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Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
4030699
Wiki­data ID
Q35672
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Pitcairn Islands” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Pitcairn”
  • Afrikaans: “Pitcairneilande”
  • Akan: “Pitcairn”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Pitcairin”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Pitcairn”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Pitkern”
  • Amharic: “ፒትካኢርን ደሴቶች”
  • Amharic: “ፕትኬርን ደሴቶች”
  • Angika: “पिटकैर्न द्वीप”
  • Arabic: “بتكايرن”
  • Arabic: “جزر بيتكيرن”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Armenian: “Պիտկեռն կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Պիտքերնյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Փիթքերն կղզիներ”
  • Arpitan: “Iles Pitcairn”
  • Assamese: “পিটকেইৰ্ণ দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Pitcairn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pitkern adaları”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Pitcairn”
  • Bambara: “Pitikarini”
  • Bashkir: “Питкэрн Утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Pitcairn uharteak”
  • Bavarian: “Pitcairninsln”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Піткейрна”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Піткэрн”
  • Belarusian: “Піткэрн”
  • Bengali: “পিটকেয়ার্ন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bishnupriya: “পিটকাইর্ন দ্বীপমালা”
  • Bosnian: “Pitcairn”
  • Bosnian: “Pitkernska Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Enez Pitcairn”
  • Breton: “Inizi Pitcairn”
  • Bulgarian: “Острови Питкерн”
  • Bulgarian: “Питкерн”
  • Burmese: “ပစ်ကိန်ကျွန်းစု”
  • Burmese: “ပစ်တ်ကိန်းကျွန်းစု”
  • Catalan: “illes Pitcairn”
  • Catalan: “Illes Pitcairn”
  • Catalan: “Pitcairn”
  • Central Bikol: “Kaiislahan na Pitcairn”
  • Central Bikol: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی پیتکەرن”
  • Chechen: “Питкэрн гӀайренаш”
  • Cherokee: “ᏈᎧᎵᏂᎤᎦᏚᏛᎢ”
  • Chinese: “皮特凯恩群岛 / 皮特肯群島”
  • Chinese: “皮特凯恩群岛”
  • Chinese: “皮特肯群島”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Pitcairn”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Pitcairn”
  • Croatian: “Otoci Pitcairn”
  • Croatian: “Pitcairnovo otočje”
  • Croatian: “Pitcairnovo Otočje”
  • Czech: “Pitcairnovy ostrovy”
  • Danish: “Pitcairn”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕިޓަކިރިން ޖަޒީރާ”
  • Dutch: “Pitcairneilanden”
  • Dzongkha: “པིཊ་ཀེ་ཡེརན་གླིང་ཚོམ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر بيتكيرن”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkarna insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkarna Insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkarna Insulo”
  • Estonian: “Pitcairn”
  • Estonian: “Pitcairni saared”
  • Ewe: “Pitkairn ƒudomekpo nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Faroese: “Pitcairn”
  • Faroese: “Pitcairnoyggjar”
  • Finnish: “Pitcairn”
  • Finnish: “Pitcairnsaaret”
  • French: “îles Pitcairn”
  • French: “Îles Pitcairn”
  • French: “Pitcairn”
  • Fulah: “Pitkern”
  • Gagauz: “Pitcairn Adaları”
  • Galician: “Illas Pitcairn”
  • Ganda: “Pitikeeni”
  • Georgian: “პიტკერნის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Pitcairn”
  • German: “Pitcairninseln”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Πίτκαιρν”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Πίτκερν”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Pitcairn”
  • Gujarati: “પિટકેર્ન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Gujarati: “પીટકૈર્ન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pitcairn Khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Pitakarin”
  • Hebrew: “איי פיטקרן”
  • Hebrew: “פיטקרן”
  • Hindi: “पिटकेर्न द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hindi: “पिटकैर्न द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hindi: “पिटकैर्न”
  • Hungarian: “Pitcairn-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Pitcairn-eyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Pitcairn”
  • Ido: “Pitkern”
  • Igbo: “Agwaetiti Pitcairn”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Pitcairn”
  • Interlingua: “Insulas Pitcairn”
  • Inupiaq: “Pitkain Qikiqtat”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Pitcairn”
  • Irish: “Oileán Pitcairn”
  • Italian: “Isole Pitcairn”
  • Japanese: “ピトケアン諸島”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Pitcairn”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಟ್‌ಕೈರ್ನ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಟ್ಕೈರ್ನ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pitkern”
  • Kashmiri: “پِٹکیرٕنۍ جٔزیٖرٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Питкэрн аралдары”
  • Khmer: “កោះ​ភីតកាន”
  • Kikuyu: “Pitkairni”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Piticayirine”
  • Kirghiz: “Питкэрн аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Питкэрн аралы”
  • Korean: “핏케언 제도”
  • Korean: “핏케언섬”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Norfolk”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Pitcairn”
  • Ladin: “Ijules Pitcairn”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະພິດແຄນ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Pitcairn”
  • Latvian: “Pitkērna”
  • Latvian: “Pitkērnas salas”
  • Ligurian: “Pitcairn”
  • Limburgan: “Pitcairn”
  • Lingala: “Pikairni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pitcairn”
  • Literary Chinese: “皮特肯群島”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitkernas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitkerno salos”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Pikairni”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pitcairninselen”
  • Macedonian: “Питкернски Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Pitkairn”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Pitcairn”
  • Malayalam: “പിറ്റ്‌കെയ്‌ൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Pitcairn”
  • Manx: “Ellanyn Pitcairn”
  • Maori: “Ngā Motu Pitikeni”
  • Maori: “Pitikeina”
  • Marathi: “पिटकेर्न द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “पिटकैर्न बेटे”
  • Mazanderani: “پیت‌کورن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Pitcairn Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pitcairn Kûn-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Pitcairn”
  • Mingrelian: “პიტკერნიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mongolian: “Питкэрн арлууд”
  • Nepali: “पिटकाइर्न टापुहरु”
  • North Ndebele: “Pitcairn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pitcairn Eilunen”
  • Northern Sami: “Pitcairn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitcairn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitcairnøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pitcairn”
  • Norwegian: “Pitcairnøyene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas de Pitcairn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pitcairn”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pitcearnīega”
  • Oriya: “ପିଟକାଇରିନ୍‌ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Питкэрны сакъадæхтæ”
  • Pampanga: “Pitcairn”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਟਕੇਰਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “islanan Pitcairn”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Pitcairn”
  • Persian: “جزایر پیت‌کرن”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pitkern Ailen”
  • Polish: “Pitcairn”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Pitcairn”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Pitcairn”
  • Pushto: “پيټکيرن ټاپوګان”
  • Pushto: “پیت کرن ټاپوګان”
  • Quechua: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Pitcairn”
  • Romansh: “Pitcairn”
  • Rundi: “Pitikeyirini”
  • Russian: “о-ва Питкэрн”
  • Russian: “Острова Питкэрн”
  • Russian: “Питкэрн”
  • Samoan: “Pitikeni”
  • Sango: “Pitikêrni”
  • Scots: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan Pheit a’ Chàirn”
  • Serbian: “Острва Питкерн”
  • Serbian: “Питкерн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pitcairnovi otoci”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pitkern”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၽိတ်ႉၶႅၼ်ႇ”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ်ၽိတ်ႉၶႅၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Pitcairn”
  • Sicilian: “Pitcairn”
  • Sindhi: “پٽڪئرن ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්කෙම් දූපත”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්කෙය්න් දූපත්”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්කේන් දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Pitcairnove ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Pitcairn”
  • Slovenian: “Pitcairnovi otoki”
  • Somali: “Bitkairn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیتکرن آدالاری”
  • Spanish: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Pitcairn”
  • Swahili: “Pitcairn”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Pitcairn”
  • Swedish: “Pitcairnöarna”
  • Swiss German: “D Pitcairninsle”
  • Swiss German: “Pitcairninseln”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Pitcairn”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Питкейрн”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Питкэрн”
  • Tamil: “பிட்கன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “பிட்கெய்ர்ன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Питкәрн”
  • Tatar: “Питкэрн утраулары”
  • Telugu: “పిట్ కెయిర్న్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “పిట్‌కెయిర్న్ దీవులు”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะพิตแคร์น”
  • Tigrinya: “ፒትካኢርን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Pitikeni”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pitikaini”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pitikeni”
  • Turkish: “Pitcairn Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Pitkern adalary”
  • Uighur: “پىتكايرن ئاراللىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Піткерн”
  • Ukrainian: “Піткерн”
  • Urdu: “پٹکائرن جزائر”
  • Urdu: “جزائر پٹکیرن”
  • Uzbek: “Pitkern orollari”
  • Venetian: “ìzołe Pitcairn”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Pitcairn”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Pitcairns”
  • Võro: “Pitcairn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Pitcairn”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie ac Oeno”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Pitcairn”
  • Western Frisian: “Pitcairneilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Питкэрн ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Wolof: “Duni Pitkayirn”
  • Wolof: “Pitkeern”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮特凯恩群岛”
  • Yakut: “Питкэрн арыылара”
  • Yakut: “Питкэрн”
  • Yiddish: “פּיטקערן אינזלען”
  • Yiddish: “פיטקערן”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùsù Pitcairn”
  • Yoruba: “Pikarini”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮卡恩群島”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮特凱恩群島”
  • Zulu: “i-Pitcairn Islands”

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