Sanibel Island
Sanibel Island is a city in Florida, entirely encompassing a barrier island west of Fort Myers. Sanibel is known as a quiet, natural travel destination, well-suited for families.Photo: Invertzoo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Village with 5,810 residents
- Description: city in Florida, USA
- Also known as: “Sanibel”, “Sanibel, FL”, and “Sanibel, Florida”
- Postal code: 33957
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sanibel Island Light.
Sanibel Island Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Lewisday, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sanibel Island Light or Point Ybel Light was one of the first lighthouses on Florida's Gulf coast north of Key West and the Dry Tortugas. The light, 98-foot above sea level, on an iron skeleton tower was first lit on August 20, 1884 and has a central spiral staircase beginning about 10 feet above the ground.
Sanibel Island
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Lee, Florida, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.449° or 26° 26′ 56″ northLongitude
-82.0223° or 82° 1′ 20″ westPopulation
5,810Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)United Nations Location Code
US SBPOpen location code
76RVCXXH+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 154124106OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sanibel Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سانيبل”
- Basque: “Sanibel”
- Catalan: “Sanibel”
- Cebuano: “Sanibel”
- Chechen: “Сенибел”
- Chinese: “Sanibel”
- Chinese: “萨尼贝尔”
- Czech: “Sanibel”
- Danish: “Sanibel”
- Dutch: “Sanibel”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سانيبل”
- Esperanto: “Sanibel”
- Finnish: “Sanibel”
- French: “Sanibel”
- German: “Sanibel”
- Gilaki: “سانیبل (فلؤريدا)”
- Gilaki: “سانیبل”
- Haitian: “Sanibel, Florid”
- Haitian: “Sanibel”
- Hebrew: “סניבל”
- Ido: “Sanibel, Florida”
- Ido: “Sanibel”
- Indonesian: “Sanibel, Florida”
- Indonesian: “Sanibel”
- Irish: “Sanibel”
- Italian: “Sanibel”
- Ladin: “Sanibel”
- Mazanderani: “سنیبل”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sanibel”
- Newari: “स्यानिबेल (फ्लोरिडा)”
- Newari: “स्यानिबेल, फ्लोरिडा”
- Newari: “स्यानिबेल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanibel”
- Norwegian: “Sanibel”
- Persian: “سنیبل، فلوریدا”
- Persian: “سنیبل”
- Polish: “Sanibel”
- Portuguese: “Sanibel”
- Serbian: “Санибел”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sanibel, Florida”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sanibel”
- Slovak: “Sanibel”
- South Azerbaijani: “سانیبل، فلوریدا”
- Spanish: “Sanibel (Florida)”
- Spanish: “Sanibel”
- Swedish: “Sanibel, Florida”
- Swedish: “Sanibel”
- Tatar: “Сенибел”
- Turkish: “Sanibel, Florida”
- Turkish: “Sanibel”
- Ukrainian: “Сенібел”
- Urdu: “سانیبل، فلوریڈا”
- Uzbek: “Sanibel”
- Vietnamese: “Sanibel, Florida”
- Vietnamese: “Sanibel”
- Volapük: “Sanibel”
- Welsh: “Sanibel, Florida”
- Welsh: “Sanibel”
- “Sanibel”
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