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Wake Island

Wake Island is a tiny island in Micronesia in the , 2/3 of the way from to , best known for its role in World War II. It is an unorganized territory, with no permanent residents, just members of the U.S. military and civilian contractors who manage the facility.
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  • Type: Island with 150 residents
  • Description: coral atoll in the North Pacific Ocean administered by the US and also claimed by the Marshall Islands
  • Also known as: “Berry”, “Disclerta”, “Enen-Kio”, “Enenkio Atoll”, “Halcyon Island”, “Helsion Island”, “Isla San Francisco”, “Isle de Saint Francois”, “Isle de St Francois”, “Isle of Saint Francis”, “Isle of St Francis”, “Isle Saint Francis”, “Isle Saint Francois”, “Isle St Francis”, “Isle St Francois”, “Jeroboam”, “Lamira”, “Mendana”, “Moccasin”, “Otori-Shima”, “Saint Francis”, “Saint Francis Island”, “Saint Francois”, “San Francisco”, “San Francisco Island”, “St Francis”, “St Francis Island”, “St Francois”, “Tori Jima”, “Wake Atoll”, “Wake Gruppe”, “Wake’s Atoll”, “Wake’s Island”, “Wakers Island”, “Wakes Island”, “Weeks Island”, “Wilson Island”, and “Wreck Island”

Wake Island

Latitude of center
19.2904° or 19° 17′ 25″ north
Longitude of center
166.6296° or 166° 37′ 47″ east
Population
150
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
AWK
United Nations Location Code
UM AWK
Open­Street­Map ID
way 23720504
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
4041685
Wiki­data ID
Q43296
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Satellite Map

Discover Wake Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Wake Island” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo Wake”
  • Afrikaans: “Wake-atol”
  • Afrikaans: “Wake-eiland”
  • Afrikaans: “Wake”
  • Afrikaans: “Wakeatol”
  • Afrikaans: “Wakeeiland”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة ويك”
  • Armenian: “Ուեյք”
  • Arpitan: “Ila Vake”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ueyk rifi”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Wake”
  • Bashkir: “Уэйк”
  • Basque: “Wake Uhartea”
  • Basque: “Wake”
  • Bavarian: “Wake”
  • Belarusian: “Атол Уэйк”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Уэйк”
  • Belarusian: “Уэйк”
  • Belarusian: “Ўэйк”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েক দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Ostrvo Wake”
  • Bosnian: “Otok Wake”
  • Bosnian: “Wake ostrvo”
  • Bosnian: “Wake otok”
  • Breton: “Enez Wake”
  • Bulgarian: “Остров Уейк”
  • Bulgarian: “Уейк”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Wake”
  • Catalan: “Illa Wake”
  • Catalan: “Illes Wake”
  • Catalan: “Wake Island”
  • Cebuano: “Wake Island”
  • Central Bikol: “Wake Island”
  • Chamorro: “Islan Wake”
  • Chechen: “Уэйк”
  • Chinese: “Wake-tó”
  • Chinese: “威克岛”
  • Chinese: “威克島”
  • Croatian: “Otok Wake”
  • Croatian: “Wake”
  • Czech: “Ostrov Wake”
  • Czech: “Peale”
  • Czech: “Wake Island”
  • Czech: “Wake”
  • Czech: “Wakeův ostrov”
  • Danish: “Wake Island”
  • Danish: “Wake”
  • Dutch: “Wake eiland”
  • Dutch: “Wake Island”
  • Dutch: “Wake-eiland”
  • Dutch: “Wake”
  • Esperanto: “Vejkinsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Wake Island”
  • Estonian: “Wake’i atoll”
  • Estonian: “Wake’i saar”
  • Estonian: “Wake”
  • Faroese: “Wakeoy”
  • Faroese: “Wakeoyggj”
  • Finnish: “Wake Island”
  • Finnish: “Wake”
  • Finnish: “Waken atolli”
  • Finnish: “Wakensaari”
  • French: “Atoll de Wake”
  • French: “Île de Saint-François”
  • French: “Île de St-François”
  • French: “Île de Wake”
  • French: “Île Saint-François”
  • French: “Île St-François”
  • French: “Île Wake”
  • French: “Saint-François”
  • French: “St-François”
  • French: “Wake Island”
  • French: “Wake”
  • Galician: “Illa de Wake”
  • Galician: “Illa Wake”
  • Georgian: “უეიკი”
  • German: “Peale Island”
  • German: “UM-79”
  • German: “Wake Island”
  • German: “Wake-Atoll”
  • German: “Wake-Insel”
  • German: “Wake”
  • German: “Wilkes Island”
  • Greek: “Γουαίηκ”
  • Greek: “Γουέηκ Νήσος”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Ουέηκ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Wake”
  • Gujarati: “વેક આઇલેન્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “אטול וייק”
  • Hebrew: “הקרב על איי וייק”
  • Hebrew: “וייק”
  • Hindi: “वेक द्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Wake-atoll”
  • Hungarian: “Wake-sziget”
  • Icelandic: “Varsímaeyja”
  • Icelandic: “Wake-eyja”
  • Ido: “Insulo Wake”
  • Ido: “Wake Insulo”
  • Indonesian: “Atol Wake”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Wake”
  • Indonesian: “Wake Island”
  • Italian: “isola di Wake”
  • Italian: “Isola di Wake”
  • Italian: “Isola Wake”
  • Japanese: “ウェーキ”
  • Japanese: “ウェーキ島”
  • Japanese: “ウェーク島”
  • Japanese: “ウェーク諸島”
  • Javanese: “Pulo Wake”
  • Kannada: “ವೇಕ್ ಐಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Уэйк аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Уэйк”
  • Korean: “웨이크 섬”
  • Korean: “웨이크 아일랜드”
  • Korean: “웨이크섬”
  • Korean: “핼시언 섬”
  • Kurdish: “Girava Wake”
  • Latin: “Insula Wake”
  • Latin: “Wake”
  • Latvian: “Veika sala”
  • Latvian: “Veikas sala”
  • Ligurian: “Isoa Wake”
  • Limburgan: “Wake”
  • Lithuanian: “Veiko sala”
  • Macedonian: “Вејк”
  • Malay: “Pulau Wake”
  • Malayalam: “വേക് ദ്വീപ്”
  • Maltese: “Wake Island”
  • Marathi: “वेक आयलंड”
  • Marathi: “वेक द्वीप”
  • Marshallese: “Ānen Kio”
  • Marshallese: “Enen-kio”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wake-tó”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wake”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wake Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wake Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wakeøya”
  • Norwegian: “Wake Island”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੇਕ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Persian: “جزیره ویک”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ ویک”
  • Polish: “Wake”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Wake”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de wake”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Wake”
  • Portuguese: “UM-79”
  • Portuguese: “US-79”
  • Romanian: “Insula Wake”
  • Russian: “Атолл Уэйк”
  • Russian: “Остров Уэйк”
  • Russian: “Уэйк атолл”
  • Russian: “Уэйк, атолл”
  • Russian: “Уэйк”
  • Samoan: “Motu o Wake”
  • Samoan: “Wake Island”
  • Sardinian: “Ìsula de Wake”
  • Scots: “Wake Island”
  • Serbian: “Вејк”
  • Serbian: “Острво Вејк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrvo Vejk”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ostrvo Wake”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Wake”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vejk ostrvo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wake”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်ဝဵၵ်ႉ”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsula di Wake”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsula Wake”
  • Sinhala: “වේක් දුපත”
  • Sinhala: “වේක් දූපත”
  • Slovak: “Ostrov Wake”
  • Slovak: “Wake”
  • Slovenian: “Otok Wake”
  • Spanish: “Isla de San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “Isla San Francisco”
  • Spanish: “Isla Wake”
  • Spanish: “San Francisco”
  • Sundanese: “Pulo Wake”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Wake”
  • Swedish: “Wake Island”
  • Swedish: “Wake”
  • Swedish: “Wakeöarna”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng Wake”
  • Tagalog: “Pulong Wake”
  • Tagalog: “Wake Island”
  • Tamil: “வாக் ஐஸ்லாந்து”
  • Tamil: “வேக் தீவு”
  • Tatar: “Уэйк атоллы”
  • Telugu: “వేక్ దీవి”
  • Thai: “เกาะเวก”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Ueke”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Wake”
  • Turkish: “Wake Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Wake Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Вейк”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Вейк”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ ویک”
  • Venetian: “ìzoła Wake”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo san hô Wake”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Wake”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Wake”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Wake”
  • Western Frisian: “Wake-eilân”
  • Western Frisian: “Wake”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویک جزیرہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “威克島”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Wake”
  • Yoruba: “Wake Island”
  • Yue Chinese: “威克島”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wake Island”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.