Palau
Palau is a group of more than 300 tropical islands in the Micronesia area of the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast of the Philippines.Tap on the map to travel |
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Koror
Koror is the largest city in Palau. Koror was also the capital until 2006, but the hamlet of Melekeok, some 20 km away, now has that honor.Babeldaob
Photo: Binter, Public domain.
Babeldaob is the largest island in the island nation of the Republic of Palau.
Rock Islands
The Rock Islands of Palau, also called Chelbacheb, are a collection of several hundred small limestone or coral uprises in the Southern Lagoon of Palau between Koror and Peleliu, now an incorporated part of Koror State.Palau
- Type: Country with 21,700 residents
- Description: island sovereign state in Oceania
- Postal code: 96940
- Languages: Palauan, Sonsorol, English, Tobian, Japanese, Filipino and Chinese
- Neighbors: Federated States of Micronesia, Indonesia and Philippines
- Categories: sovereign state, island country, republic and locality
- Location: Micronesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
7.4169° or 7° 25' 1" northLongitude of centre
134.5413° or 134° 32' 29" eastPopulation
21,700Area
458 km² (177 miles²)Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)Capital
MelekeokCurrency
Dollar (USD)Phone code
.pwInternet domain
680OpenStreetMap ID
node 1511934680OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
1559582Wikidata ID
Q695Palau Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Палау
- Achinese: Palau
- Afar: Palau
- Afrikaans: Palau
- Akan: Palau
- Albanian: Palau
- Amharic: Palau
- Amharic: ፐላው
- Amharic: ፓላው
- Amis: Palau
- Angika: पालाउ
- Arabic: Palau
- Arabic: بالاو
- Aragonese: Palau
- Armenian: Պալաու
- Arpitan: Palaos
- Assamese: পালাউ
- Asturian: Paláu
- Atayal: Palau
- Avaric: Belaua
- Azerbaijani: Palau
- Balinese: Palau
- Bambara: Palawu
- Banjar: Palau
- Bashkir: Палау
- Basque: Palau
- Bavarian: Palau
- Belarusian: Палау
- Belarusian: Палаў
- Bengali: পালাউ
- Bengali: পালাউর অর্থনীতি
- Bishnupriya: পালাউ
- Bislama: Palau
- Bosnian: Palau
- Breton: Palau
- Bulgarian: Палау
- Burmese: ပလာအို
- Burmese: ပလောင်းနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Palau
- Catalan: República de Palau
- Cebuano: Palau
- Central Bikol: Palau
- Central Kurdish: پالاو
- Chavacano: Palau
- Chechen: Палау
- Cherokee: ᏆᎴᎠᏫ
- Cheyenne: Palau
- Chinese: Palau
- Chinese: 帕劳 / 帛琉
- Chinese: 帕劳
- Chinese: 帕勞
- Chinese: 帛琉
- Chinese: 帛琉共和國
- Chuvash: Палау
- Cornish: Palau
- Corsican: Pelau
- Crimean Tatar: Palau
- Croatian: Palau
- Czech: Palau
- Dagbani: Palau
- Danish: Palau
- Dhivehi: ޕަލާއޫ
- Dimli (individual language): Palau
- Dotyali: पलाउ
- Dutch: PLW
- Dutch: PW
- Dutch: Palau
- Dzongkha: པ་ལའུ
- Eastern Mari: Палау
- Egyptian Arabic: بالاو
- Egyptian Arabic: پالاو
- English: Belau
- English: Pelew
- English: Pelew islands
- English: Republic of Belau
- English: Republic of Palau
- English: pw
- Esperanto: Belaŭo
- Esperanto: PW
- Esperanto: Palaŭo
- Esperanto: Respubliko Palaŭo
- Estonian: Belau
- Estonian: Belau Vabariik
- Estonian: Palau
- Estonian: Palau Vabariik
- Ewe: Palau nutome
- Extremaduran: Palau
- Faroese: Palau
- Fiji Hindi: Palau
- Fijian: Palau
- Finnish: Palau
- Finnish: Palaun tasavalta
- French: Belau
- French: PW
- French: Palaos
- French: Palau
- French: la République des Palaos
- Fulah: Palawu
- Gagauz: Palau
- Galician: Palau - Belau
- Galician: Palau
- Ganda: Palawu
- Georgian: პალაუ
- German: Palau
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Palau
- Goan Konkani: Palau
- Goan Konkani: पलाऊ
- Greek: Παλάου
- Guarani: Paláu
- Guianese Creole French: Palaos
- Gujarati: પલાઉ
- Haitian: Palao
- Haitian: Palawo
- Hakka Chinese: Palau
- Hausa: Palau
- Hebrew: פאלאו
- Hebrew: פלאו
- Hindi: पलाउ
- Hindi: पलाऊ
- Hindi: पालाउ
- Hungarian: Palau
- Hungarian: Palaui Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Palá
- Ido: Palau
- Igbo: Palau
- Iloko: Palau
- Inari Sami: Palau
- Inari Sami: Palau täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Palau
- Indonesian: Republik Palau
- Ingush: Палау
- Interlingua: Palau
- Interlingue: Palau
- Irish: Oileáin Palau
- Irish: Palau
- Italian: Palau
- Jamaican Creole English: Palau
- Japanese: パラオ
- Japanese: パラオ共和国
- Javanese: Palau
- Kalaallisut: Palau
- Kalmyk: Паламудин Орн
- Kannada: ಪಲಾವು
- Kannada: ಪಲಾವ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Palau
- Kashmiri: پَلاو
- Kazakh: Палау
- Kazakh: Палау Республикасы
- Khmer: ប៉ាឡាវ
- Khmer: ផៅឡូ
- Kikuyu: Palau
- Kinaray-A: Kapalauhan
- Kinyarwanda: Palawu
- Kirghiz: Палау
- Korean: 팔라우
- Kotava: Belaua
- Kurdish: Palau
- Kölsch: Palau
- Ladin: Palau
- Lao: Palau
- Lao: ປາລາວ
- Latin: Belavia
- Latin: Insulae Palauenses
- Latin: Palau
- Latvian: Palau
- Ligurian: Palau
- Limburgan: Palau
- Lingala: Palau
- Lingua Franca Nova: Belau
- Literary Chinese: 帛琉
- Lithuanian: Palau
- Livvi: Palau
- Lombard: Palau
- Low German: Palau
- Luba-Katanga: Palau
- Luxembourgish: Palau
- Macedonian: Палау
- Malagasy: Palao
- Malagasy: Palaô
- Malay: Palau
- Malayalam: പലാവു
- Maltese: Palau
- Maltese: Palaw
- Maltese: Repubblika ta’ Palau
- Manipuri: ꯄꯥꯂꯥꯎ
- Manx: Palau
- Maori: Pārau
- Marathi: पलाउ
- Marathi: पलाऊ
- Min Dong Chinese: Palau
- Min Nan Chinese: Palau
- Minangkabau: Palau
- Mingrelian: პალაუ
- Mongolian: Палау
- Mongolian: ꯄꯥꯂꯥꯎ
- Moroccan Arabic: پالاو
- Moroccan Arabic: پالاوس
- Nauru: Parau
- Nepali: पलाउ
- Nepali: पालाउ
- Newari: पलाउ
- North Ndebele: Palau
- Northern Frisian: Paalau
- Northern Sami: Palau
- Northern Sami: Palau dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Palau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Palau
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Palau
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Palau
- Novial: Palau
- Occitan (post 1500): Belau
- Occitan (post 1500): Palau
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Palau
- Oriya: ପଲାଓ
- Oriya: ପାଲାଉ
- Ossetian: Палау
- Palauan: Belau
- Palauan: Beluu er a Belau
- Pali: पलाऊ
- Pampanga: Palau
- Panjabi: ਪਲਾਉ
- Panjabi: ਪਲਾਊ
- Papiamento: Palau
- Persian: پالائو
- Picard: Palaos
- Piemontese: Palau
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Palau
- Polish: Palau
- Portuguese: Palau
- Pushto: پالاو
- Pushto: پالایو
- Pushto: پلاؤ
- Quechua: Palaos
- Quechua: Palaw
- Rakhine: ပလောင်းသမ္မတနိုင်ငံ
- Romanian: Palau
- Romansh: Palau
- Rundi: Palawu
- Russia Buriat: Палау
- Russian: Палау
- Russian: Республика Палау
- Sakizaya: Palau
- Samoan: Palau
- Samogitian: Palau
- Sango: Palau
- Santali: ᱯᱟᱞᱟᱣ
- Sardinian: Palau (istadu)
- Sardinian: Palau
- Scots: Palau
- Scottish Gaelic: Palabh
- Scottish Gaelic: Palau
- Serbian: Палау
- Serbo-Croatian: Palau
- Shan: မိူင်းပႃႇလၢဝ်း
- Shona: Palau
- Sicilian: Palau
- Silesian: Palau
- Sindhi: پالائو
- Sindhi: پلائو
- Sinhala: පලාවු
- Skolt Sami: Palau
- Skolt Sami: Palau tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Palau
- Slovak: Palauská republika
- Slovenian: Palau
- Slovenian: Palav
- Slovenian: Republika Palav
- Somali: Balaaw
- Somali: Balau
- South Azerbaijani: پالاو
- Spanish: Palaos
- Spanish: Palau
- Spanish: Republica de Palaos
- Spanish: República de Palaos
- Sundanese: Palau
- Swahili: Palau
- Swedish: Belau
- Swedish: Palau
- Swedish: Republiken Belau
- Swedish: Republiken Palau
- Swiss German: Palau
- Tagalog: Palau
- Tagalog: Palaw
- Tahitian: Parau
- Tajik: Палау
- Tajik: Полоу
- Tamil: பலாவு
- Tamil: பாலோ
- Taroko: Poryo
- Tatar: Палау
- Telugu: పలావు
- Telugu: పాలావ్
- Thai: ประเทศปาเลา
- Thai: ปาเลา
- Thai: สาธารณรัฐปาเลา
- Tibetan: པ་ལའུ།
- Tibetan: པ་ལཽ།
- Tigrinya: ፓላው
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Palau
- Tosk Albanian: Palau
- Tunisian Arabic: پالاو
- Turkish: Palau
- Turkmen: Palau
- Tyap: Bela̱u
- Tyap: Pa̱la̱u
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Pa̱la̱u
- Udmurt: Палау
- Uighur: پالائۇ
- Uighur: پالاۋ
- Ukrainian: Палау
- Upper Sorbian: Palau
- Urdu: پلاؤ
- Uzbek: Palau
- Venetian: Palau
- Venetian: Pałau
- Veps: Palau
- Vietnamese: Palau
- Volapük: Palauvuäns
- Võro: Belau
- Waray (Philippines): Palau
- Welsh: Palau
- Welsh: Palaw
- Western Frisian: Palau
- Western Mari: Палау
- Western Panjabi: پالاو
- Wolof: Palau
- Wolof: Palaw
- Wu Chinese: 帛琉
- Yakut: Палау
- Yoruba: Paalu
- Yoruba: Páláù
- Yue Chinese: 帛琉
- Zeeuws: Palau
- Zhuang: Palau
- Zulu: i-Palau
- Palaú
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