Pohnpei
Pohnpei is an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group. It belongs to Pohnpei State, one of the four states in the Federated States of Micronesia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gargoylepni, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nan Madol and Kolonia.
Nan Madol
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Nan Madol is an archaeological site adjacent to the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei, now part of the Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean.
Kolonia
Photo: Gargoylepni, Public domain.
Kolonia is a city on the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. The municipality of Kolonia has a population of around 6,500 people, but it is the center of an urban area of approximately 13,000 people, including the nearby suburbs of Sokehs Island, Nett and Porakied village.
Pohnpei
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Micronesia
- Also known as: “ARTIST WW2”, “Ascension Island”, “Bonaki”, “Bonebay”, “Bonebey”, “Bornabi”, “Falope”, “Faloupet”, “Fanope”, “Faounaoupei”, “Faunupei”, “Harper”, “Hunepet”, “Painipete”, “Panipete”, “Pohnpey”, “Ponape”, “Ponape Island”, “Ponapeau”, “Ponapei”, “Pouynipete”, “Puynipet”, “Quirosa”, “The Garden Island of Micronesia”, “Torres”, and “William IV-Insel”
- Category: landform
- Location: Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.9069° or 6° 54′ 25″ northLongitude
158.2325° or 158° 13′ 57″ eastPopulation
32,400Elevation
782 metres (2,566 feet)IATA airport code
PNIOpen location code
6RRWW64J+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 358689182GeoNames ID
2081551Wikidata ID
Q319836
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pohnpei” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بونابي”
- Arabic: “بونبي”
- Basque: “Pohnpei”
- Basque: “Ponape”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Панпеі”
- Belarusian: “Панпеі”
- Bulgarian: “Понпей”
- Catalan: “Pohnpei”
- Catalan: “Ponape”
- Cebuano: “Pohnpei Island - General Fringing Mangroves”
- Cebuano: “Pohnpei Island”
- Chinese: “彭培島”
- Chinese: “波納佩”
- Chinese: “波纳佩”
- Chinese: “波纳佩岛”
- Chinese: “波纳佩州”
- Chinese: “澎貝島”
- Czech: “Pohnpei”
- Czech: “Ponape”
- Danish: “Pohnpei”
- Dutch: “Pohnpei”
- Dutch: “Ponape”
- Dutch: “Ponhpei”
- Esperanto: “Pohnpei”
- Esperanto: “Ponape”
- Esperanto: “Ponapeo”
- Estonian: “Pohnpei saar”
- Estonian: “Pohnpei”
- Finnish: “Pohnpei”
- Finnish: “Ponape”
- Finnish: “Ponapé”
- French: “Île Pohnpei”
- French: “Pohnpei”
- French: “Ponape”
- Galician: “Pohnpei”
- German: “Pohnpei”
- Hebrew: “פונפיי”
- Indonesian: “Pohnpei”
- Italian: “Pohnpei (Distretto)”
- Italian: “Pohnpei”
- Japanese: “ポーンペイ”
- Japanese: “ポーンペイ島”
- Japanese: “ポナペ”
- Japanese: “ポナペ島”
- Japanese: “ポンペイ島”
- Japanese: “ポンペイ州”
- Korean: “포나페섬”
- Korean: “폰페이섬”
- Latvian: “Ponpeja”
- Lithuanian: “Ponapė”
- Lithuanian: “Ponpėja”
- Macedonian: “Понпеј”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pohnpei”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ponape”
- Norwegian: “Pohnpei”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pohnpei”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pònpei”
- Persian: “پوناپی”
- Persian: “پوهنپئی”
- Polish: “Pohnpei”
- Polish: “Ponape”
- Portuguese: “Bonabi”
- Portuguese: “Pohnpei”
- Portuguese: “Ponape”
- Romanian: “Pohnpei”
- Russian: “Понпеи”
- Russian: “Понпей”
- Serbian: “Понпеј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pohnpei”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ponape”
- Spanish: “Bonabi”
- Spanish: “Bonabí”
- Spanish: “Pohnpei”
- Spanish: “Ponape”
- Spanish: “Ponapé”
- Swedish: “Pohnpei Island - General Fringing Mangroves”
- Swedish: “Pohnpei”
- Swedish: “Ponape”
- Tagalog: “Pohnpei”
- Turkish: “Pohnpei”
- Ukrainian: “Понапе”
- Ukrainian: “Понпеі”
- Ukrainian: “Понпеї”
- Vietnamese: “Pohnpei”
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