Kane'ohe
| Kane'ohe | |||
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Location in Hawaii
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Hawaii | ||
| County : | Honolulu County | ||
| Coordinates : | 21 ° 25 ′ N , 157 ° 48 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time ( UTC − 10 ) | ||
| Residents : | 34,597 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 2,035.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 22 km 2 (approx. 8 mi 2 ) of which 17 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 28 m | ||
| FIPS : | 15-28250 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 360391 | ||
 City view of Kāneʻohe |
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Kāneʻohe is a city ( census-designated place ) in the state of Hawaii in the United States. It is the second largest town on the east side of the island of Oahu . It is located on the Kāneʻohe Bay in Honolulu County and borders the neighboring city of Kailua . At the 2010 Census it had a population of 34,597 inhabitants on a land area of 17.0 km² with a total area of 22.0 km². It is an important commercial center with many shops, department stores and several large shopping centers. Marine Corps Base Hawaii is in the immediate vicinity . The Hawaiian name means bamboo man and is said to go back to the comparison of the cruelty of a husband with the edge of a bamboo knife.
The place has a botanical garden, the Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden , with hundreds of plant species from different continents and three golf courses. There is a Japanese temple with a large Buddha statue in the Valley of the Temples Memorial Park .
Although Kāneʻohe is only 12 kilometers (as the crow flies) from Honolulu, the weather is very different. Here rain falls on an average of 236 days a year with a rainfall of 1344 mm, while in Honolulu it rains on an annual average only on 89 days and the rainfall is only 434 mm.
Demographics
In the 2010 census , the 34,597 inhabitants gave the following ethnicity: 20.5% "white", 0.6% "black or African American", 36.9% Asian, 7.5% Hawaiian, 8.4% "Hispanic", 31.8% multiracial. Around 25% of the population are under 21 years of age.
education
On the edge of the Koʻolau Mountains in Kāneʻohe is the Windward Community College, operated by the University of Hawaii , with around 2500 students.
Personalities
- Mike Lambert (* 1974), volleyball and beach volleyball player born in Kāneʻohe
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kāneʻohe in Hawaiian Dictionaries
- ↑ Kane'ohe To-Hawaii.com, accessed July 18, 2017.
- ↑ Average Yearly Rainfall for Hawaii Current Results Weather and Science Facts, accessed July 18, 2017.
- ↑ United States Census Bureau American Fact Finder, accessed July 18, 2017.
- ↑ Windward Community College: At a Glance University of Hawaii, accessed July 18, 2017.