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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: “Occas Island”, “Pitcairn”, “Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands”, “Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands”, and “pn”
  • 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
.pn
Internet domain
870
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1388794217
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
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: “Pitcairn Eiland”
  • Afrikaans: “Pitcairn Eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Pitcairn-eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Pitcairneilande”
  • Akan: “Pitcairn”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Pitcairin”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Pitcairn”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Pitkairin”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Pitkern”
  • Amharic: “ፒትካኢርን ደሴቶች”
  • Amharic: “ፕትኬርን ደሴቶች”
  • Angika: “पिटकैर्न द्वीप”
  • Arabic: “بتكايرن”
  • Arabic: “جزر بيتكيرن”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بيتكيرن”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Aragonese: “Pitcairn”
  • Armenian: “Պիտկեռն կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Պիտքերնյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Փիթքերն կղզիներ”
  • Arpitan: “Iles Pitcairn”
  • Assamese: “পিটকেইৰ্ণ দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Pitcairn”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pitkern adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pitkern”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Pitcairn”
  • Bambara: “Pitikarini”
  • Bashkir: “Питкэрн Утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Pitcairn uharteak”
  • Basque: “Pitcairn”
  • Bavarian: “Pitcairn-Insln”
  • Bavarian: “Pitcairninsln”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Піткейрна”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Піткэрн”
  • Belarusian: “Выспы Піткейрна”
  • Belarusian: “Піткерн”
  • Belarusian: “Піткэрн”
  • Bengali: “পিটকেয়ার্ন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bishnupriya: “পিটকাইর্ন দ্বীপমালা”
  • Bosnian: “Picairn ostrva”
  • Bosnian: “Pitcairn”
  • Bosnian: “Pitkern”
  • Bosnian: “Pitkernska Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Enez Pitcairn”
  • Breton: “Inizi Pitcairn”
  • Breton: “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”
  • Chechen: “Питкэрн гӀайренаш”
  • Cherokee: “ᏈᎧᎵᏂᎤᎦᏚᏛᎢ”
  • Chinese: “Pitcairn Kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “匹特揆綸島”
  • Chinese: “皮卡恩群島”
  • Chinese: “皮特克恩岛”
  • Chinese: “皮特克恩島”
  • Chinese: “皮特凯恩”
  • Chinese: “皮特凯恩岛”
  • Chinese: “皮特凯恩群岛 / 皮特肯群島”
  • Chinese: “皮特凯恩群岛”
  • Chinese: “皮特凯恩行政区划”
  • Chinese: “皮特凱恩群島”
  • Chinese: “皮特康島”
  • Chinese: “皮特开恩群岛”
  • Chinese: “皮特肯島”
  • Chinese: “皮特肯群島”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Pitcairn”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Pitcairn”
  • Croatian: “Otoci Pitcairn”
  • Croatian: “Pitcairn otoci”
  • Croatian: “Pitcairn”
  • Croatian: “Pitcairnovo otočje”
  • Croatian: “Pitcairnovo Otočje”
  • Croatian: “Pitkairn”
  • Croatian: “Pitkern”
  • Czech: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Czech: “Pitcairnovy ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Pitcairny”
  • Danish: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Danish: “Pitcairn”
  • Danish: “Pitcairnøerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕިޓަކިރިން ޖަޒީރާ”
  • Dutch: “PCN”
  • Dutch: “Pitcairneilanden”
  • Dutch: “PN”
  • Dzongkha: “པིཊ་ཀེ་ཡེརན་གླིང་ཚོམ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر بيتكيرن”
  • Esperanto: “Pitcairn”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkarna insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkarna Insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkarna Insulo”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkarno”
  • Esperanto: “Pitkerno”
  • Estonian: “Pitcairn”
  • Estonian: “Pitcairni saared”
  • Ewe: “Pitkairn ƒudomekpo nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Faroese: “Pitcairn”
  • Faroese: “Pitcairnoyggjar”
  • Finnish: “PCN”
  • Finnish: “Pitcairn”
  • Finnish: “Pitcairnin saaret”
  • Finnish: “Pitcairninsaaret”
  • Finnish: “Pitcairnsaaret”
  • French: “îles Pitcairn”
  • French: “Îles Pitcairn”
  • French: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • French: “Pitcairn”
  • Fulah: “Pitkern”
  • Gagauz: “Pitcairn Adaları”
  • Galician: “Illa de Pitcairn”
  • Galician: “Illas Pitcairn”
  • Galician: “Pitcairn”
  • Ganda: “Pitikeeni”
  • Georgian: “პიტკერნის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Pitcairn-Inseln”
  • German: “Pitcairn”
  • German: “Pitcairninseln”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Πίτκερν”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Πίτκαιρν”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Πίτκερν”
  • Greek: “Πίτκαιρν Νήσοι”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Pitcairn”
  • Gujarati: “પિટકેર્ન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Gujarati: “પીટકૈર્ન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pitcairn Khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Pitakarin”
  • Hebrew: “איי פיטקרן”
  • Hebrew: “פיטקאירן”
  • Hebrew: “פיטקרן”
  • Hindi: “पिटकेम द्वीप समूह”
  • 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”
  • Italian: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Japanese: “ピトケアン”
  • Japanese: “ピトケアン島”
  • 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: “피트케언제도”
  • Korean: “피트케인 제도”
  • Korean: “피트케인제도”
  • Korean: “핏케언 섬”
  • Korean: “핏케언 제도”
  • Korean: “핏케언섬”
  • Korean: “핏케언제도”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Norfolk”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Pitcairn”
  • Ladin: “Ijules Pitcairn”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະພິດແຄນ”
  • Latin: “Insulae Pitcairn”
  • Latin: “Pitcairn Insulae”
  • Latvian: “PCN”
  • Latvian: “Pitkērna salas”
  • Latvian: “Pitkērna, Hendersona, Djusi un Oeno Salas”
  • Latvian: “Pitkērna”
  • Latvian: “Pitkērnas salas”
  • Ligurian: “Pitcairn”
  • Limburgan: “Pitcairn”
  • Lingala: “Pikairni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pitcairn”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitcairno salos”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitkernas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pitkerno salos”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Pikairni”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pitcairn-Inselen”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pitcairninselen”
  • Macedonian: “Питкернски Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Pitkairn”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Pitcairn”
  • Malay: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Malayalam: “പിറ്റ്‌കെയ്‌ൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Pitcairn”
  • Manx: “Ellanyn Pitcairn”
  • Manx: “Pitcairn”
  • Maori: “Ngā Motu Pitikeni”
  • Maori: “Pitikeina”
  • Marathi: “पिटकेर्न द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “पिटकैर्न द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “पिटकैर्न बेटे”
  • Mazanderani: “پیت‌کورن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Pitcairn Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pitcairn Kûn-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Pitcairn”
  • Mongolian: “Питкэрн арлууд”
  • Nepali: “पिटकाइर्न टापुहरु”
  • North Ndebele: “Pitcairn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pitcairn Eilunen”
  • Northern Sami: “Pitcairn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “PCN”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitcairn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pitcairnøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pitcairn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pitcairnøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Pitcairnøyene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pitcairn”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pitcearnīeg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pitcearnīega”
  • Oriya: “ପିଟକାଇରିନ୍‌ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Питкэрны сакъадæхтæ”
  • Pampanga: “Pitcairn”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਟਕੇਰਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਟਕੇਰਨ, ਹੈਂਡਰਸਨ, ਡੂਸੀ ਅਤੇ ਈਨੋ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “islanan Pitcairn”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Pitcairn”
  • Persian: “جزایر پیت کرن”
  • Persian: “جزایر پیت‌کرن”
  • Persian: “جزیره پیت کرن”
  • Persian: “جزیره پیت‌کرن”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ پیت‌کرن”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pisskern Aliеn”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pitcairn Island”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pitkern Ailen”
  • Polish: “Pitcairn Islands Group”
  • Polish: “Pitcairn”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Pitcairn”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Pitcairn”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Pitcairn”
  • Portuguese: “Pitcairn”
  • Pushto: “پيټکيرن ټاپوګان”
  • Pushto: “پیت کرن ټاپوګان”
  • Quechua: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Romanian: “Insula Pitcairn”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Pitcairn”
  • Romansh: “Pitcairn”
  • Rundi: “Pitikeyirini”
  • Russian: “о-ва Питкэрн”
  • Russian: “Остров Питкерн”
  • Russian: “Остров Питкэрн”
  • Russian: “Острова Питкэрн”
  • Russian: “Питкерн”
  • Russian: “Питкэрн”
  • Samoan: “Pitikeni”
  • Sango: “Pitikêrni”
  • Scots: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eileanan Pheit a’ Chàirn”
  • Serbian: “Острва Питкерн”
  • Serbian: “Острво Питкерн”
  • Serbian: “Питкарнска острва”
  • Serbian: “Питкерн Острва”
  • Serbian: “Питкерн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otoci Pitcairn”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pitcairn”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pitcairnovi otoci”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pitkern Ostrva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pitkern”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pitkernski Otoci”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၽိတ်ႉၶႅၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Pitcairn”
  • Sicilian: “Pitcairn”
  • Sindhi: “پٽڪئرن ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්කෙම් දූපත”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්කෙය්න් දූපත්”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්කේන් දූපත්”
  • Sinhala: “පිට්කේම් දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Pitcairnove ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Otoki Pitcairn”
  • Slovenian: “Pitcairn”
  • Slovenian: “Pitcairnovi otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Pitcairnovo otočje”
  • Slovenian: “Pitcairnski otoki”
  • Somali: “Bitkairn”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیتکرن آدالاری”
  • Spanish: “Islas Pitcairn”
  • Spanish: “Las Islas Pitcairn”
  • Spanish: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Spanish: “Pitcairn”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Pitcairn”
  • Swahili: “Pitcairn”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Pitcairn”
  • Swedish: “Jay Warren”
  • Swedish: “Pitcairn Island”
  • Swedish: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Swedish: “Pitcairn”
  • Swedish: “Pitcairnöarna”
  • Swiss German: “D Pitcairninsle”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Pitcairn”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Питкейрн”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Питкэрн”
  • Tamil: “பிட்கன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “பிட்கெய்ர்ன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “பிட்சைர்ன் இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “பிற்கான் தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Питкәрн”
  • Tatar: “Питкэрн утраулары”
  • Telugu: “పిట్ కెయిర్న్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “పిట్‌కెయిర్న్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “పిట్‌కెయిర్న్”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะพิตแคร์น”
  • Tigrinya: “ፒትካኢርን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Pitikeni”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pitikaini”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pitikeni”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pitcairninseln”
  • Turkish: “Pitcairn Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Pitcairn Adası”
  • Turkmen: “Pitkern adalary”
  • Uighur: “پىتكايرن ئاراللىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Піткерн”
  • Ukrainian: “Піткерн”
  • Ukrainian: “Піткернські острови”
  • Urdu: “The Pitcairn Islands”
  • Urdu: “پٹکائرن جزائر”
  • Urdu: “جزائر پٹکیرن”
  • Uzbek: “Pitkern orollari”
  • Venetian: “ìzołe Pitcairn”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Pitcairn”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Pitcairn”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Pitcairns”
  • Võro: “Pitcairn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Pitcairn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pitcairn Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Welsh: “Pitcairn”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Pitcairn”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie ac Oeno”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Pitcairn”
  • Western Frisian: “Pitcairneilannen”
  • Western Frisian: “Pitkêrneilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Питкэрн ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Wolof: “Duni Pitkayirn”
  • Wolof: “Pitcairn”
  • Wolof: “Pitkeern”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮特凯恩群岛”
  • Yakut: “Питкэрн”
  • Yiddish: “פּיטקערן אינזלען”
  • Yiddish: “פיטקערן”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùsù Pitcairn”
  • Yoruba: “Pikarini”
  • Yoruba: “Pitcairn Islands”
  • Yoruba: “The Pitcairn Islands”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮特凱恩群島”
  • Zulu: “i-Pitcairn Islands”
  • “PCN”
  • “Pitcairn”
  • “PN”

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