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.
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- 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”
- Categories: volcanic island and landform
- Location: Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
6.9069° or 6° 54′ 25″ north
Longitude
158.2325° or 158° 13′ 57″ east
Population
32,400
Elevation
782 metres (2,566 feet)
IATA airport code
PNI
Open location code
6RRWW64J+QX
OpenStreetMap ID
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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 Nynorsk: “Pohnpei”
- 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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