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.
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: “Isla Saipán”, “Saipán (Islas Marianas del Norte)”, “Saipan Municipality”, “Saipan, MP”, “Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands”, and “塞班島”
- Postal code: 96950
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mount Tapochau and Saipan Botanical Garden.
Mount Tapochau
Peak
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
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.Chalan Kiya
Suburb
Chalan Kiya is a settlement on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Saipan
- Category: administrative territorial entity
- Location: Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.1685° or 15° 10′ 7″ north
Longitude
145.7408° or 145° 44′ 27″ east
Population
48,200
Elevation
1,529 feet (466 metres)
Open location code
7R775P9R+98
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saipan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saipan”
- Amharic: “ሳይፓን”
- Amis: “Saipan”
- Arabic: “سايبان”
- Armenian: “Սայպան”
- Asturian: “Saipán”
- Azerbaijani: “Saypan”
- Basque: “Saipan”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сайпан”
- Belarusian: “Сайпан”
- Bengali: “সাইপান”
- Bosnian: “Saipan”
- Breton: “Saipan”
- Bulgarian: “Сайпан”
- Catalan: “Saipan”
- Cebuano: “Saipan Island”
- Chinese: “塞班岛”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Saipan”
- Hebrew: “סאיפאן”
- Hindi: “साइपैन”
- Hindi: “सैपान”
- Hungarian: “Saipan”
- Icelandic: “Saípan”
- Indonesian: “Saipan”
- Italian: “Saipan”
- Japanese: “サイパン”
- Japanese: “サイパン島”
- Javanese: “Saipan”
- Kazakh: “Сайпан”
- Kirghiz: “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”
- Oromo: “Saipan”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਈਪਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਸੈਪਾਨ”
- Persian: “سایپان”
- 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”
- Somali: “Saipan”
- South Azerbaijani: “سایپان”
- Spanish: “Saipán”
- Swahili: “Saipan”
- Swedish: “Saipan”
- Tajik: “Сайпан”
- Tajik: “Сайпон”
- Tamil: “சைப்பேன்”
- Tatar: “Сайпан”
- Thai: “เกาะไซปัน”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Saʻipani”
- Turkish: “Saipan”
- Ukrainian: “Сайпан”
- Urdu: “سائپین”
- Uzbek: “Saypan”
- 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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