Ralik
The Ralik Chain is a chain of islands within the island nation of the Marshall Islands. Ralik means "sunset". It is west of the Ratak Chain. In 1999 the total population of the Ralik islands was 19,915.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kwajalein and Ebeye.
Kwajalein
Photo: Matt Kieffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kwajalein is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. Although a restricted US Department of Defense missile research and testing site, and not accessible to the general public, Kwajalein is home to around 1,800 Americans who live and work there.
Ebeye
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Ebeye is on Kwajalein Atoll. Most of the residents of Ebeye are, or are the descendants of, islanders evacuated from other islands in the Kwajalein atoll.
Ralik
- Type: Island
- Description: chain of islands, western sub-archipelago of the Marshall Islands
- Also known as: “Groupe de Ralik”, “Railik”, “Ralic”, “Ralick Chain”, “Ralick Gruppe”, “Ralik Chain”, “Rarikku”, “Rarikku Chēn”, and “Sunset”
- Categories: chain of islands, first-level administrative division, and landform
- Location: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ralik” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راليك تشين”
- Arabic: “سلسلة راليك”
- Asturian: “Cadena Ralik”
- Belarusian: “Ланцуг Ралік”
- Bengali: “রালিকচেইন”
- Catalan: “cadena de Ralik”
- Cebuano: “Ralik Chain”
- Chinese: “拉利克”
- Chinese: “拉利克礁链”
- Chinese: “拉利克礁鏈”
- Croatian: “Lanac Ralik”
- Croatian: “Ralik”
- Danish: “Ralik Chain”
- Danish: “Ralik-kæden”
- Dutch: “Ralik Chain”
- Estonian: “Ralik”
- Estonian: “Raliki saared”
- Estonian: “Raliku ahelik”
- Finnish: “Ralik”
- French: “Archipel des Ralik”
- French: “Archipel Ralik”
- French: “Chaîne de Ralik”
- French: “Chaîne des Ralik”
- French: “Chaîne du Couchant”
- French: “Chaîne Ralik”
- French: “îles Ralik”
- French: “Ralik”
- Galician: “Cordal Ralik”
- Georgian: “რალიკის ჯაჭვი”
- German: “Ralik-Kette”
- Greek: “Ράλικ Τσέιν”
- Gujarati: “રાલિક ચેઇન”
- Hebrew: “שרשרת רליק”
- Hindi: “रालिक चेन”
- Indonesian: “Ralik Chain”
- Indonesian: “Ralik”
- Italian: “Ralik”
- Japanese: “ラリック列島”
- Kannada: “ರಾಲಿಕ್ ಚೈನ್”
- Korean: “랄리크 열도”
- Latvian: “Raliku salas”
- Lithuanian: “Raliko salos”
- Macedonian: “Ралички Острови”
- Malay: “Ralik Chain”
- Marathi: “रालिक चेन”
- Marshallese: “Rālik”
- Northern Frisian: “Ralik Keed”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ralik-kjeden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ralik”
- Norwegian: “Ralik-kjeden”
- Persian: “زنجیره رالیک”
- Polish: “Ralik Chain”
- Portuguese: “Cadeia Ralik”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Ralik”
- Russian: “Ралик”
- Russian: “Цепь Ралик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lanac Ralik”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ralik”
- Sinhala: “රලික් චේන්”
- Slovenian: “otočje Ralik”
- Slovenian: “otoška veriga Ralik”
- Slovenian: “Ralik Chain”
- Spanish: “Cadena Ralik”
- Spanish: “Ralik Cadena”
- Swedish: “Ralik Chain”
- Swedish: “Ralikgruppen”
- Swedish: “Raliköarna”
- Tamil: “ராலிக் செயின்”
- Telugu: “రాలిక్ చైన్”
- Thai: “ลาลิก เชน”
- Turkish: “Ralik Chain”
- Turkish: “Ralik Takımadaları”
- Ukrainian: “Ланцюг Ралік”
- Ukrainian: “Ралік”
- Urdu: “سلسلہ رالک”
- Vietnamese: “Chuỗi đảo Ralik”
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