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Saint Helena, Ascension & Tristan da Cunha

Saint Helena

Saint Helena Island is in the eastern part of the South Atlantic Ocean and is one of the world's most isolated islands. If you start crossing the Atlantic due west from the border between and , Saint Helena Island will appear about one-third of the way across to Brazil.
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  • Type: State with 4,530 residents
  • Description: island in the South Atlantic Ocean
  • Also known as: “SH-HL”, “St Helena”, and “St. Helena”

Saint Helena

Latitude of center
-15.9666° or 15° 57′ 60″ south
Longitude of center
-5.7101° or 5° 42′ 37″ west
Population
4,530
Elevation
991 feet (302 metres)
IATA airport code
HLE
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399423
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6930057
Wiki­data ID
Q34497
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Saint Helena” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Saint Helena”
  • Afrikaans: “Saint Helena”
  • Afrikaans: “Sint Helena”
  • Afrikaans: “St. Helena”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli Shën Elena”
  • Amharic: “ሴይንት ሄሌና”
  • Amharic: “ሴይንት ህሊና ደሴት”
  • Amharic: “ሴይንት ህሊና”
  • Amharic: “ቅዱስ ሄሌና ደሴት”
  • Amharic: “ቅዱስ ሄሌና”
  • Arabic: “سانت هلينا”
  • Arabic: “سانت هيلانة”
  • Arabic: “سانت هيلين”
  • Arabic: “سانت هيلينا”
  • Arabic: “سنت هيلانة”
  • Arabic: “سينت هلينا”
  • Aragonese: “Isla de Santa Elena”
  • Aragonese: “Isla de Santa Helena”
  • Aragonese: “Isla Santa Elena”
  • Aragonese: “Isla Santa Helena”
  • Aragonese: “Islas de Santa Elena”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Santa Elena”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Հեղինե”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Հեղինեի կղզի”
  • Asturian: “islla de Santa Lena”
  • Asturian: “islla Santa Lena”
  • Asturian: “Islla Santa Lena”
  • Asturian: “Saint Helena”
  • Asturian: “Santa Lena”
  • Asturian: “St. Helena”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Yelena adası”
  • Basque: “Saint Helena”
  • Basque: “Santa Helena”
  • Bavarian: “St. Helena”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Святой Алены”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Сьвятая Гэлена”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Сьвятой Алены”
  • Belarusian: “Выспа Сьвятая Гелена”
  • Belarusian: “Выспа Сьвятая Гэлена”
  • Belarusian: “Святой Алены, Востраў”
  • Bengali: “সেন্ট হেলেনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “সান্টা হেলেনা”
  • Bosnian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Breton: “Enez Saint Helena”
  • Breton: “Saint Helena”
  • Breton: “Santa Helena”
  • Breton: “Santez-Elen”
  • Breton: “Santez-Helena”
  • Bulgarian: “Остров Света Елена”
  • Bulgarian: “Света Елена”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Santa Helena”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Santa Hel·lena”
  • Catalan: “Saint Helen”
  • Catalan: “Santa Helena, Ascension i Tristan da Cunha”
  • Catalan: “Santa Helena”
  • Catalan: “St. Helena”
  • Cebuano: “Saint Helena Island”
  • Central Kurdish: “سانت ھێلانە”
  • Chechen: “Аьрдачу Еленин гӀайре”
  • Chinese: “Saint Helena”
  • Chinese: “圣赫伦那”
  • Chinese: “圣赫勒拿”
  • Chinese: “聖海倫娜”
  • Chinese: “聖海倫娜島”
  • Chinese: “聖赫倫那”
  • Chinese: “聖赫倫那島”
  • Chinese: “聖赫勒拿”
  • Chinese: “聖赫勒拿島”
  • Chinese: “聖赫勒那島”
  • Chuvash: “Сӑваплӑ Елена утравӗ”
  • Cornish: “Sen Helena”
  • Corsican: “Sant’Elena”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Seynt Helena”
  • Croatian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Czech: “ostrov Sv. Heleny”
  • Czech: “ostrov Svaté Heleny”
  • Czech: “Sv. Helena”
  • Czech: “Svatá Helena”
  • Danish: “Sankt Helena”
  • Danish: “St. Helena”
  • Dhivehi: “ސަންތި ހެލީނާ”
  • Dutch: “Sint Helena”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Helena”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانت هيلينا”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo de Sankta Helena”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo de Sankta Heleno”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Sankta Heleno”
  • Esperanto: “Saint Helena”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Heleno, Ascension kaj Tristan da Cunha”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Heleno”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta-Heleno”
  • Esperanto: “Sent-Heleno”
  • Estonian: “Püha Helena saar”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helena saar”
  • Estonian: “Saint Helena”
  • Finnish: “Saint Helena”
  • Finnish: “SHN”
  • Finnish: “St Helena”
  • Finnish: “St. Helena”
  • French: “Île de Sainte-Hélène”
  • French: “Île Sainte Hélène”
  • French: “Ile Sainte-Helene”
  • French: “Île sainte-hélène”
  • French: “Saint Helena”
  • French: “Saint Hélène”
  • French: “Sainte Hélène”
  • French: “Sainte-Helene”
  • French: “Sainte-Hélène”
  • Gagauz: “Sent Helena”
  • Galician: “Illa de Santa Helena”
  • Galician: “Santa Helena”
  • Georgian: “წმინდა ელენეს კუნძული”
  • German: “Saint Helena”
  • German: “St. Helena”
  • Greek: “Αγία Ελένη”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Αγίας Ελένης”
  • Gujarati: “સેન્ટ હેલેના”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Saint Helena”
  • Hausa: “Saint Halena”
  • Hebrew: “סאנט הלנה”
  • Hebrew: “סנט הלנה”
  • Hebrew: “סנט-הלנה”
  • Hindi: “सन्त हेलेना”
  • Hindi: “सेंट हेलेना”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Ilona-sziget”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Ilona”
  • Icelandic: “Sankti Helena og yfirráðasvæði”
  • Icelandic: “Sankti Helena”
  • Ido: “Sant-Helena”
  • Ido: “Santa Helena”
  • Ido: “St Helena”
  • Igbo: “Saint Helena”
  • Indonesian: “Saint Helena”
  • Interlingue: “Sant Helena”
  • Irish: “San Héilin”
  • Italian: “Isola di Sant’Elena”
  • Italian: “Punto caldo di Sant’Elena”
  • Italian: “Sant’Elena”
  • Japanese: “セント・ヘレナ”
  • Japanese: “セント・ヘレナ島”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレナ”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレナ島”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレナ諸島”
  • Javanese: “Saint Helena”
  • Javanese: “Santa Héléna”
  • Javanese: “St. Helena”
  • Kannada: “ಸೇಂಟ್ ಹೆಲೆನಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Әулие Елена аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Сент-Хелена”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Helena Ntagatifu”
  • Kirghiz: “Ыйык Елена аралы”
  • Kölsch: “St. Helena”
  • Korean: “세인트 헬레나 섬”
  • Korean: “세인트 헬레나”
  • Korean: “세인트헬레나 섬”
  • Korean: “세인트헬레나”
  • Latin: “Insula Sanctae Helenae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Sanctae Helenae”
  • Latin: “Sancta Helena”
  • Latvian: “SHN”
  • Latvian: “Sv. Helēnas sala”
  • Latvian: “Svētās Helēnas sala”
  • Latvian: “Svētās Helēnas Sala”
  • Ligurian: “Sant’Ellena”
  • Limburgan: “Sint-Helena”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Elenos sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Šventoji Elena”
  • Lombard: “Sant’Elena (isola)”
  • Lombard: “Sant’Elena”
  • Low German: “Saint Helena”
  • Luxembourgish: “Saint Helena”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sankt-Helena”
  • Luxembourgish: “St. Helena”
  • Macedonian: “Света Елена”
  • Malay: “Pulau St. Helena”
  • Malay: “Saint Helena”
  • Malayalam: “സൈന്റ് ഹെലേന”
  • Maltese: “Saint Helena”
  • Manx: “Ellan Helena Noo”
  • Maori: “Hāto Hērena”
  • Marathi: “सेंट हेलेना”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Saint Helena”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Saint Helena”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sèng Helena”
  • Mingrelian: “წიმინდე ელენეშ კოკი”
  • Mingrelian: “წმინდა ელენეშ კოკი”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯეგე ელენეშ კოკი”
  • Mongolian: “Гэгээн Елена”
  • Mongolian: “Гэгээн Еленагийн арал”
  • Narom: “Sainte Hélène”
  • Northern Sami: “Saint Helena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saint Helena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankt Helena”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankthelenar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sankthelener”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St. Helena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saint Helena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sankt Helena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St Helena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Helena-øya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Helena”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St.Helena”
  • Norwegian: “St. Helena”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Elena (illa)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santa Elena”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sancte Elene Īeg”
  • Ossetian: “Сыгъдæг Еленæйы сакъадах”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਂਟ ਹਲੀਨਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਂਟ ਹੇਲੇਨਾ”
  • Pedi: “Saint Helena”
  • Persian: “جزیره سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “سن هلن”
  • Persian: “سنت هلن”
  • Persian: “سنت هلینا”
  • Persian: “سینت هلینا”
  • Polish: “Święta Helena”
  • Polish: “Wyspa św. Heleny”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Świętej Heleny”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Santa Helena”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Helena”
  • Pushto: “سينټ هېلېنا”
  • Romanian: “Insula Sf. Elena”
  • Romanian: “Insula Sfânta Elena”
  • Romanian: “Sfânta Elena”
  • Russian: “О-в Св. Елены”
  • Russian: “остров Св. Елены”
  • Russian: “остров Святой Елены”
  • Russian: “Остров Святой Елены”
  • Russian: “Святая Елена”
  • Russian: “Святой Елены остров”
  • Russian: “Святой Елены”
  • Scots: “Saunt Helena”
  • Serbian: “Saint Helena”
  • Serbian: “Острво Света Јелена”
  • Serbian: “Света Јелена”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrvo sveta Jelena”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saint Helena”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sveta Jelena”
  • Shan: “သဵင်ႉႁႄးလႄးၼႃႇ”
  • Sicilian: “Sant’Elena”
  • Sicilian: “Santa Lena”
  • Sinhala: “ශාන්ත හෙලේනා”
  • Slovak: “Sv. Helena”
  • Slovak: “Svätá Helena”
  • Slovenian: “Otok sv. Helene”
  • Slovenian: “Otok Sveta Helena”
  • Slovenian: “Otok Svete Helene”
  • Slovenian: “Sveta Helena”
  • Southern Sotho: “Saint Helena”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Santa Elena”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Santa Helena”
  • Spanish: “Isla Santa Elena”
  • Spanish: “Isla Santa Helena”
  • Spanish: “Santa Elena”
  • Spanish: “Santa Helena”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa cha St. Helena”
  • Swahili: “Saint Helena”
  • Swedish: “S:t Helena”
  • Swedish: “Saint Helena”
  • Swedish: “Sankt Helena”
  • Swedish: “Sankta Helena”
  • Swedish: “St Helena”
  • Swedish: “St. Helena”
  • Swiss German: “D Insle St. Helena”
  • Tagalog: “Saint Helena”
  • Tagalog: “Santa Elena, Ascension, at Tristan da Cunha”
  • Tagalog: “Santa Helena”
  • Tamil: “செயிண்ட் எலனா”
  • Tamil: “செயிண்ட். எலனா”
  • Tamil: “சென் ஹெலெனா”
  • Tatar: “Изге Елена утравы”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ హెలినా”
  • Telugu: “సెయింట్ హెలెనా”
  • Thai: “เกาะเซนต์เฮเลนา”
  • Thai: “เซนต์เฮเลนา”
  • Thai: “แซงต์-เตแลน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “St. Helena”
  • Tsonga: “Saint Helena”
  • Turkish: “Saint Helena”
  • Turkish: “St. Helena”
  • Uighur: “Saynt Xéléna Arili”
  • Uighur: “ساينت خېلېنا ئارىلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Святої Єлени”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Святої Олени”
  • Ukrainian: “Святої Єлени острів”
  • Urdu: “Saint Helena”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ ہلینا”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ ہیلینا”
  • Uzbek: “Muqaddas Yelena oroli”
  • Venetian: “Isola de Sant’Elena”
  • Venetian: “Sant’Elena”
  • Venetian: “Sant’Ełena”
  • Venetian: “Santa Lena”
  • Venetian: “Santa Łena”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Saint Helena”
  • Vietnamese: “Saint Helena”
  • Vietnamese: “Saint-Helena”
  • Vietnamese: “St. Helena”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saint Helena”
  • Welsh: “Saint Helena”
  • Welsh: “Sant Helena”
  • Welsh: “St Helena”
  • Welsh: “St. Helena”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Sant Helena”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Helena”
  • Western Panjabi: “سینٹ ہلینا”
  • Wolof: “Seent Eleen”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣赫勒拿岛”
  • Yoruba: “Saint Helena”
  • Yue Chinese: “聖海倫娜島”

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