Yap
Yap State is one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia, located in the westernmost portion of the country. The state borders Palau to the southwest, Guam to the north, and Chuuk State to the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: state of the Federated States of Micronesia
- Also known as: “TTPI Yap District” and “Yap State”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colonia.
Colonia
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Colonia is an urban area between the municipalities of Rull and Weloy which serves as the capital of Yap State, one of the states in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Yap
- Categories: state of the Federated States of Micronesia, electoral unit, and landform
- Location: Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
9.5545° or 9° 33′ 16″ northLongitude
138.1161° or 138° 6′ 58″ eastPopulation
11,600Elevation
173 metres (568 feet)United Nations Location Code
FM YAPOpen location code
6QXWH438+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 325697688GeoNames ID
2081175Wikidata ID
Q11342951
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Yap” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Yap (estatua)”
- Basque: “Yap”
- Catalan: “Estat de Yap”
- Cebuano: “State of Yap”
- Chinese: “Yap Chiu”
- Chinese: “雅帕州”
- Chinese: “雅浦州”
- Croatian: “Yap”
- Danish: “Yap”
- Finnish: “Yapin osavaltio”
- French: “État de Yap”
- French: “Yap”
- Galician: “Estado de Yap”
- Georgian: “იაპი”
- German: “Bundesstaat Yap”
- German: “Yap”
- Hindi: “याप राज्य”
- Indonesian: “Negara Bagian Yap”
- Indonesian: “Yap”
- Italian: “Yap”
- Japanese: “ヤップ州”
- Korean: “야프주”
- Latvian: “Japa (pavalsts)”
- Latvian: “Japa”
- Lithuanian: “Japas (valstija)”
- Lithuanian: “Japas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yap Chiu”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ويلاية ياپ”
- Northern Frisian: “Yap (Bundesstoot)”
- Northern Frisian: “Yap”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Iap (Estat)”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Iap”
- Persian: “ایالت یاپ”
- Polish: “Yap”
- Russian: “штат Яп”
- Russian: “Яп”
- Sinhala: “යැප් ප්රාන්තය, මයික්රොනීසියා ෆෙඩරල් ජනපද”
- Spanish: “Estado de Yap”
- Swedish: “State of Yap”
- Swedish: “Yap”
- Turkish: “Yap”
- Ukrainian: “Яп”
- Urdu: “ریاست یاپ”
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