see|Hawaiʻi
English

Alternative spellings
Hawaiʻi

Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Image:Map of USA highlighting Hawaii.png|thumb|right|Map of US highlighting Hawaii
Hawaii

1. A state of the United States of America. The capital is Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. It is the fiftieth state to join the United States. The nickname is the Aloha State. It is located from 19° to 23° N longitude, with the eight main islands from 155° to 162° W longitude and including many smaller islands extending westward.
2. A chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean between North America and Oceania. Also called the Hawaiian Islands and formerly the Sandwich Islands. The larger islands are:

#: Kauai (Kaua'i)
#: Hawaii (Hawai'i, the Big Island)
#: Lanai (Lana'i)
#: Maui
#: Molokai (Moloka'i)
#: Niihau Ni'ihau
#: Oahu (O'ahu)

1. The proper name of the largest of the Hawaiian Islands, also called the Big Island. The Big Island lies southeast of the other islands.

Usage notes
The standard spelling in the islands is unicode|Hawaiʻi, where the unicode|ʻ indicates a glottal stop or phonemic glide.

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Derived terms
Hawaiian
hawaiite

Translations

Bulgarian: Хаваи (Khavai) p, Хавай�ки о���ови (Khavajski ostrovi) p
Chinese: ��夷 (Xiàw�iyí)
Finnish: Havaiji
French: Hawaii m, les îles Hawaii f pl
Greek: Χαβάη (Khavái)
Hawaiian: unicode|Hawaiʻi
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Italian: le Hawaii f pl
Japanese: ���, �� (Hawai)
Korean: ���, (Hawai)
Lithuanian: Havajai
Maltese: il-Ħawaj
Polish: Hawaje f pl
Portuguese: Havaí, Avaí m
Russian: �авайи (Gaváji) p
Spanish: Hawai

See also
HI

External links
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