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County FIPS code [6] County seat [7] Est. [7] Etymology Island(s) Population [8] Area [8] Map Hawai'i County: 001: Hilo: 1905: Island of Hawaiʻi, with which the county is coterminous; said to be named for Hawaiʻiloa, a legendary Polynesian navigator. Hawaiʻi: 207,615: 4,028 sq mi (10,432 km 2) Honolulu County: 003: Honolulu: 1905
It lies along Hawaii Route 19 north of Hilo, the county seat of Hawaiʻi County. [1] Its elevation is about 300 feet above sea level (about 90 m) Because the community has borne multiple names, the Board on Geographic Names officially designated it "Papaaloa" in 1914 and 1954 before assigning the current name in 2001. [ 2 ]
Kainaliu is located in the Kona district at coordinates, along the Hawaii Belt Road, also called the Māmalahoa Highway or state route 11. [1] For demographic information, see the census-designated places of Honalo, Hawaii to the north or Kealakekua, Hawaii to the south.
Hawaii County has a total area of 5,086.70 square miles (13,174.5 km 2); 4,028.02 square miles (10,432.5 km 2) is land and 1,058.69 square miles (2,742.0 km 2) is water [3] (mostly all off the ocean shoreline but counted in the total area by the U.S. Census Bureau).
The title of the state constitution is The Constitution of the State of Hawaii. Article XV, Section 1 of the Constitution uses The State of Hawaii. [26] Diacritics were not used because the document, drafted in 1949, [27] predates the use of the ʻokina ʻ and the kahakō in modern Hawaiian orthography.
Halaula is in the North Kohala region and peninsula, on the northern side of the island of Hawaiʻi.It is bordered to the west by Kapaau. Hawaii Route 270 is the main road through the community, leading west then south 22 miles (35 km) to Hawaii Route 19 at Waikui and east 4 miles (6 km) to its terminus at an overlook of the Pololū Valley.
In 1947, the State of Hawaii approved a small passenger terminal and a 3,800 foot (1,200 m) runway to be built for tourist flights, which was operational in 1948 and dedicated in 1949. [1] In 1950, 5,000 feet (1,500 m) of fencing was added to keep out cattle which would wander onto the site.
Suō-Ōshima (周防大島町, Suō-Ōshima-chō) is a town and an island located in Ōshima District, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Suō-Ōshima was formed on October 1, 2004 from the merger of the former towns of Ōshima, Kuka, Tachibana and Tōwa, all from towns of Ōshima District. As of April 1, 2017, the town has an estimated population of ...