page_title: Kauai
section_title: Towns and communities
hierarchical_section_title: Kauai / Towns and communities
caption_attribution_description: English: Anahola Bay is a snorkeling and swimming beach with clear pools and a long coral reef.
context_page_description: Kauaʻi, anglicized as Kauai, is geologically the second oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of 562.3 square miles, it is the fourth-largest of these islands and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the "Garden Isle", Kauaʻi lies 105 miles across the Kauaʻi Channel, northwest of Oʻahu. This island is the site of Waimea Canyon State Park.
  The United States Census Bureau defines Kauaʻi as census tracts 401 through 409 of Kauai County, Hawaiʻi, which comprises all of the county except for the islands of Kaʻula, Lehua and Niʻihau. The 2010 United States Census population of the island was 66,921. The most populous town was Kapaʻa.
context_section_description: The town of Līhuʻe, on the island's southeastern coast, is the seat of Kauaʻi County and the second largest town on the island. Kapaʻa, on the "Coconut Coast" (site of an old coconut plantation) about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Līhuʻe, has a population of over 10,000, or about 50% greater than Līhuʻe. Princeville, on the island's north side, was once the capital of Kauaʻi.
  Communities on Kauaʻi range in population from the roughly 10,000 people in Kapaʻa to tiny hamlets. The list below lists the larger or more notable of those from the northernmost end of Hawaii Route 560 to the western terminus of Hawaii Route 50:
  Haʻena State Park
  Wainiha
  Hanalei
  Princeville
  Kalihiwai
  Kilauea
  Anahola
  Kapaʻa (largest town by population on Kauaʻi)
  Wailua
  Hanamāʻulu
  Līhuʻe (second-largest by population)
  Poʻipū
  Kōloa
  Lāwaʻi
  Kalāheo
  ʻEleʻele
  Hanapēpe
  Kaumakani
  Waimea
  Kekaha
caption: Anahola Bay is a snorkeling and swimming beach with clear pools and a long coral reef.
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