Kwajalein
Kwajalein is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. Although a restricted US Department of Defense missile research and testing site, and not accessible to the general public, Kwajalein is home to around 1,800 Americans who live and work there.Photo: Matt Kieffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, commonly referred to as the Reagan Test Site, is a missile test range in Marshall Islands.
Bucholz Army Airfield
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bucholz Army Airfield is a United States Army airfield located on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Kwajalein
- Type: Island
- Description: Pacific atoll, part of the Marshall Islands
- Categories: atoll, administrative territorial entity, coastline, locality and landform
- Location: Ralik, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
8.7307° or 8° 43' 50" northLongitude
167.7282° or 167° 43' 41" eastPopulation
10,900Open Location Code
6VW9PPJH+77OpenStreetMap ID
way 23709655OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap Feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
7303502Wikidata ID
Q309172Kwajalein Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جزيرة كواجالين
- Asturian: Atolón de Kwajalein
- Asturian: Kwajalein
- Basque: Kwajalein atoloia
- Belarusian: Атол Кваджалейн
- Belarusian: Кваджалейн
- Bulgarian: Куаджалин
- Catalan: Kwajalein
- Cebuano: Kwajalein
- Chinese: 夸贾林岛
- Chinese: 夸贾林环礁
- Chinese: 瓜加林
- Chinese: 瓜加林環礁
- Croatian: Kwajalein
- Czech: Kwajalein
- Danish: Kwajalein
- Dutch: Kwajalein
- English: Kwajalein, Marshall Islands
- English: Kwajalein Atoll
- Esperanto: Kwajalein
- Finnish: Kwajalein
- French: Atoll Kwajalein
- French: Kwajalein
- Galician: Atol Kwajalein
- Galician: Kwajalein
- Georgian: კვაჯალეინი
- German: Kwajalein
- German: Kwajalein-Atoll
- German: MH-KWA
- Hebrew: אטול קווג'לין
- Hebrew: קווג'לין
- Hungarian: Kwajalein-atoll
- Indonesian: Atol Kwajalein
- Italian: Atollo di Kwajalein
- Italian: Kwajalein
- Japanese: クェゼリン
- Japanese: クェゼリン島
- Japanese: クェゼリン環礁
- Japanese: クワジェリン島
- Japanese: クワジャリン
- Japanese: クワジャリン島
- Japanese: クワジャリン環礁
- Korean: 콰잘레인 환초
- Latin: Kwajalein
- Lithuanian: Kvadžaleinas
- Macedonian: Кваџалејн
- Malay: Atol Kwajalein
- Malay: Kwajalein
- Norwegian: Kwajalein
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kwajalein
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kwajaleinatollen
- Persian: آبسنگ حلقوی کواجالین
- Persian: کواجالین
- Polish: Atol Kwajalein
- Polish: Kwajalein
- Portuguese: Kwajalein
- Romanian: Atolul Kwajalein
- Romanian: Kwajalein
- Russian: Атолл Кваджалейн
- Russian: Атолл Кваджелейн
- Russian: Атолл Меншикова
- Russian: Атолл Меньшикова
- Russian: Кваджалейн
- Russian: Кваджелейн
- Russian: Меншикова атолл
- Slovak: Kwajalein
- Spanish: Atolon Kwajalein
- Spanish: Atolon de Kwajalein
- Spanish: Atolón Kwajalein
- Spanish: Atolón de Kwajalein
- Spanish: Kwajalein
- Swedish: Kwajalein
- Turkish: Kwajalein Atolü
- Ukrainian: Кваджалейн
- Urdu: کواجالئین جزیرہ مرجانی
- Vietnamese: Kwajalein
- Kwajalein Island
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kwajalein. Photo: Matt Kieffer, CC BY-SA 2.0.