Saipan

Saipan is the largest of the . Saipan, Guam, and many other islands of the Marianas were all important battle sites during , and there are still many Japanese bunkers and armaments on these islands.
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  • 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.

Peak
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
is the highest point on the island of Saipan in the . It is located in the center of the island, north of San Vicente village and northwest of Magicienne Bay.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a park.

Shinto shrine
The Hachiman Jinja is a derelict Shinto shrine off Kagman Road on the island Saipan in the , and one of the few on those islands to survive relatively intact.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capitol Hill and Kagman.

Village
Photo: あばさー, Public domain.
is a settlement on the island of Saipan in the . It has a population of around 1,000. has been the territory's seat of government since 1962.

Suburb
is a settlement on the island of Saipan in the .

Village
is a settlement in Saipan, . It is located on the middle of the island. It uses UTC+10:00 and its highest point is 374 feet.

Saipan

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
Geo­Names ID
4041552
Wiki­data ID
Q51679
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Satellite Map

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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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