Society Islands
The Society Islands are an archipelago in Polynesia in the South Pacific Ocean. Politically, the islands are part of French Polynesia, a semi-autonomous part of France.
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Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Society Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago of French Polynesia
- Also known as: “Archipel de la Societe”, “Archipel de Tahiti”, “Arhipelagul societăţii”, “Arhipeleagul Societăţii”, “Arhipeleagul Societății”, “Bendrijos salos”, “Družbeni otoki”, “Enezeg ar Gevredigezh”, “Gesellschafts Inseln”, “Gesellschafts-Inseln”, “História das ilhas da sociedade”, “Iles de la Societe”, “Iles de la Societé”, “Îles de la Societe”, “Îles de la Societé”, “Îles de la Société, Archipel de la Société”, “Ilhas da sociedade”, “Insulele Societăţii”, “Insulele Societății”, “Islas Sociedad”, “Jamiyat Orollari”, “Kepulauan Society”, “Mopelia”, “Ostrová Óbshchestva”, “Ostrovy Společnosti”, “Quần đảo Society”, “Société Adaları”, “Society Adaları”, “Society Archipelago”, “Spoločenské ostrovy”, “Visuomenės salos”, “Νήσοι Σοσιετέ”, “архипелаг Сообщества”, “Общества острова”, “острова Георга”, “Острова Сообщества”, “Острова Товарищества”, “Острови Суспільства”, “Товариства”, “Товарищества острова”, “איי סוסייטה”, “หมู่เกาะโซไซตี”, and “索晒厄替群島”
- Category: archipelago
- Location: French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
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Latitude of center
-17.1757° or 17° 10′ 32″ south
Longitude of center
-150.3863° or 150° 23′ 11″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Society Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Geselskapseilande”
- Arabic: “جزر الجمعية”
- Armenian: “Ընկերության կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Islles de la Sociedá”
- Azerbaijani: “Cəmiyyət adaları”
- Basque: “Sozietate uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Таварыства”
- Bosnian: “Društvena ostrva”
- Breton: “Inizi ar Gevredigezh”
- Bulgarian: “Дружествени острови”
- Catalan: “illes de la Societat”
- Catalan: “Illes de la Societat”
- Cebuano: “Society Islands”
- Chinese: “社会群岛”
- Chinese: “社會群島”
- Croatian: “Društveni otoci”
- Czech: “Společenské ostrovy”
- Danish: “Selskabsøerne”
- Dutch: “Genootschapseilanden”
- Esperanto: “Societa Insularo”
- Estonian: “Seltsisaared”
- Finnish: “Seurasaaret”
- French: “archipel de la Société”
- French: “Archipel de la Société”
- French: “Îles de la Société”
- Galician: “Illas da Sociedade”
- Georgian: “საზოგადოების კუნძულები”
- German: “Gesellschaftsinseln”
- Greek: “Εταιρείας Νήσοι”
- Hebrew: “איי החברה”
- Hungarian: “Társaság-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Félagseyjar”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Masyarakat”
- Italian: “Isole della Società”
- Japanese: “ソシエテ諸島”
- Kirghiz: “Коом аралдары”
- Korean: “소시에테 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Societatis”
- Latvian: “Biedrības salas”
- Lithuanian: “Draugijos salos”
- Macedonian: “Друштвени Острови”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Masyarakat”
- Marathi: “सोसायटी द्वीपसमूह”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Société Kûn-tó”
- Northern Frisian: “Selskap Eilunen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Selskapsøyene”
- Norwegian: “Selskapsøyene”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas de la Societat”
- Ossetian: “Æхсæнады сакъадæхтæ”
- Persian: “جزایر انجمن”
- Polish: “Wyspy Towarzystwa”
- Portuguese: “Arquipélago da Sociedade”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas da Sociedade”
- Romanian: “Arhipelagul Societății”
- Russian: “Острова Общества”
- Scots: “Society Islands”
- Serbian: “Društvena ostrva”
- Serbian: “Друштвена острва”
- Serbian: “Друштвена Острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Društveni otoci”
- Slovak: “Ostrovy Spoločnosti”
- Slovenian: “Družbeno otočje”
- Spanish: “islas de la Sociedad”
- Spanish: “Islas de la Sociedad”
- Swedish: “Sällskapsöarna”
- Swiss German: “Gesellschaftsinseln”
- Swiss German: “Gsellschaftsinsle”
- Tahitian: “Tōtaiete mā”
- Tamil: “சொசைட்டி தீவுகள்”
- Tatar: “Җәмгыять утраулары”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะโซไซเอตี”
- Turkish: “Sosyete Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Товариства”
- Urdu: “جزائر سوسائٹی”
- Uzbek: “Jamiyat orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Société”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Sociètè”
- Welsh: “Ynysoedd Société”
- Western Frisian: “Genoatskipseilannen”
- Western Panjabi: “سوسائٹی جزیرے”
- Wu Chinese: “社会群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “社會群島”
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