Saipan
Saipan is the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands. Saipan, Guam, and many other islands of the Marianas were all important battle sites during World War II, and there are still many Japanese bunkers and armaments on these islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pdmiller, Public domain.
Photo: Inkey, Public domain.
- Type: island with 48,200 residents
- Description: largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, United States of America
- Also known as: “Saipan Island”, “Saipan Municipality”, “Saipan, MP”, and “Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands”
- Postal code: 96950
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Tapochau and Saipan Botanical Garden.
Mount Tapochau
Peak
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
Mount Tapochau is the highest point on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. It is located in the center of the island, north of San Vicente village and northwest of Magicienne Bay.
Hachiman Shrine
Shinto shrine
The Hachiman Jinja is a derelict Shinto shrine off Kagman Road on the island Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, and one of the few on those islands to survive relatively intact.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capitol Hill and Kagman.
Capitol Hill
Village
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
Capitol Hill is a settlement on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. It has a population of around 1,000. Capitol Hill has been the territory's seat of government since 1962.
Kannat Tabla
Village
Kannat Tabla is a settlement in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. It is located on the middle of the island. It uses UTC+10:00 and its highest point is 374 feet.
Saipan
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Satellite Map
Discover Saipan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saipan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saipan”
- Amis: “Saipan”
- Arabic: “سايبان”
- Armenian: “Սայպան”
- Asturian: “Saipán”
- Azerbaijani: “Saypan”
- Basque: “Saipan”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сайпан”
- Belarusian: “Сайпан”
- Bosnian: “Saipan”
- Breton: “Saipan”
- Bulgarian: “Сайпан”
- Catalan: “Saipan”
- Cebuano: “Saipan Island”
- Chinese: “Saipan”
- Chinese: “塞班”
- Chinese: “塞班岛”
- Chinese: “塞班島”
- Croatian: “Saipan”
- Czech: “Saipan”
- Danish: “Saipan”
- Dutch: “Saipan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سايبان”
- Esperanto: “Saipano”
- Estonian: “Saipan”
- Finnish: “Saipan”
- French: “Saipan”
- French: “Saïpan”
- Galician: “Saipan”
- Georgian: “საიპანი”
- German: “Saipan”
- Greek: “Σαϊπάν”
- Hebrew: “סאיפאן”
- Hindi: “साइपैन”
- Hindi: “सैपान”
- Hungarian: “Saipan”
- Icelandic: “Saípan”
- Indonesian: “Saipan”
- Italian: “Saipan”
- Japanese: “サイパン島”
- Kazakh: “Сайпан”
- Korean: “사이판”
- Korean: “사이판섬”
- Latvian: “Saipana”
- Ligurian: “Saipan”
- Lithuanian: “Saipanas”
- Macedonian: “Сајпан”
- Malagasy: “Saipan”
- Malay: “Saipan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saipan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saipan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saipan”
- Norwegian: “Saipan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saipan”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਈਪਨ”
- Persian: “سایپن”
- Polish: “Saipan”
- Portuguese: “Saipã”
- Portuguese: “Saipan”
- Pushto: “سایپان”
- Romanian: “Saipan”
- Russian: “Сайпан”
- Sardinian: “Saipan”
- Scots: “Saipan”
- Serbian: “Сајпан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saipan”
- Shona: “Saipan”
- Sinhala: “සයිපන්, උතුරු මරියානා දූපත්”
- Slovenian: “Saipan”
- South Azerbaijani: “سایپان”
- Spanish: “Isla Saipán”
- Spanish: “Saipán (Islas Marianas del Norte)”
- Spanish: “Saipán”
- Swedish: “Saipan”
- Tajik: “Сайпан”
- Tamil: “சைப்பேன்”
- Tatar: “Сайпан”
- Thai: “เกาะไซปัน”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Saʻipani”
- Turkish: “Saipan”
- Ukrainian: “Сайпан”
- Urdu: “سائپین”
- Vietnamese: “Saipan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Saipan”
- Welsh: “Saipan”
- Western Frisian: “Saipan”
- Western Panjabi: “سائپین”
- Wu Chinese: “塞班岛”
- Yue Chinese: “塞班”
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