Woleai
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Woleai (), also known as Oleai, is a coral atoll of 22 islands in the western Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, forming a legislative district in the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia, and located approximately west-northwest of Ifalik and northeast of Eauripik. Woleai is also the name of the largest of the islets constituting the atoll, lying to the northeast.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Woleai
- Islands.image_name
- Woleai-0219441.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- NASA picture of Woleai Atoll
- Islands.image_map
- Woleai old map.png
- Islands.image_map_caption
- Map of Woleai
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Islands.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Woleai in Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
- Islands.label_position
- top
- Islands.map_mark
- Cercle rouge 100%.svg
- Islands.map_mark_width
- 20
- Islands.location
- North Pacific
- Islands.archipelago
- Caroline
- Islands.total_islands
- 18
- Islands.area_km2
- 4.5
- Islands.elevation_m
- 2
- Islands.population
- 1081
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2000
- Islands.demonym
- Woleaian
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- atoll
- Part of
- Caroline
- Located in
- Yap State
- Area
- 17
- Time zone
- UTC+10:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Woleai-0219441.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- Caroline Islands
- native label
- Woleai
- Commons category
- Woleai
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Woleai (), also known as Oleai, is a coral atoll of 22 islands in the western Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, forming a legislative district in the Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia, and located approximately west-northwest of Ifalik and northeast of Eauripik. Woleai is also the name of the largest of the islets constituting the atoll, lying to the northeast.
The population of the atoll was 1,081 in 2000, on an area of 4.5 km2.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Woleai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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