Kaunakakai
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census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Hawaii
- County
- Maui
- Total
- 16.45 sq mi (42.60 km )
- Land
- 12.83 sq mi (33.22 km )
- Water
- 3.62 sq mi (9.37 km )
- Elevation
- 20 ft (6 m)
- Density
- 266.5/sq mi (102.91/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-10 ( Hawaii-Aleutian )
- Fips code
- 15-31100
- Gnis feature id
- 0360717
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- census-designated place in the United States
- Official name
- Kaunakakai
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Maui County
- Population
- 3419
- Area
- 42.596237
- Elevation
- 6
- Time zone
- UTC−10:00
- Capital of
- Molokaʻi
- Official website
- www.kaunakakai.k12.hi.us
- Image
- Downtown Kaunakakai.jpg
- Households
- 1085
- Dialing code
- 808
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- Commons category
- Kaunakakai, Hawaii
- postal code
- 96748
- located in/on physical feature
- Maui
- native label
- Kaunakakai
- water as percent of area
- 22.0009
- per capita income
- 23091
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Encyclopedic overview
Kaunakakai ( Hawaiian pronunciation: [kɐwnəkəˈkɐj]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States. It is the largest town on the island of Molokaʻi. The population was 3,419 at the 2020 census. It has the largest port on the island and the longest pier in Hawaii. The town was made famous in the 1930s by the song "The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai", beginning an ongoing tradition of designating an honorary mayor for the town.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaunakakai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.