Mandarin Island North

	Mandarin Island North; キンカン島 Kinkan Island
Region	Orange Islands
Series debut	Pikachu Re-Volts
	; Location of Mandarin Island North in the Orange Islands

Mandarin Island North (Japanese: キンカン島 Kinkan Island) is one of the Orange Islands. It is a large city with tall skyscrapers and buildings, which Jessie referred to as The Big Orange, an allusion to New York City (The Big Apple). It was featured in the Pokémon the Series: The Beginning episode Pikachu Re-Volts.

Butch and Cassidy once used Mandarin Island North for one of their schemes. Using a Drowzee, they hypnotized all the Pokémon on the island into turning against their Trainers. This included Ash's Pikachu, Misty's Togepi, and Team Rocket's Meowth.

Places of interest

Police Station

A place in the city where Officer Jenny patrols the streets of Mandarin Island. It is a large building that has a tower and two rooms on either side of the tower. Above the doorway, there is a large star. Inside is a large sitting area with a desk, computer, telephone, and a couple of Wanted posters.

Team Rocket's hideout

On the side of the city, there is a large, abandoned power plant that was used as Butch and Cassidy's hideout when they were using Drowzee to hypnotize all the Pokémon on the island. The hypnotized Pokémon got in the power plant through an air duct on the side of the entrance gate. The building has since been reduced rubble due to Togepi's use of Explosion via Metronome, however.

Pokémon seen on Mandarin Island North

Wartortle	Vulpix	Mankey	Primeape	Growlithe	Poliwag
Ponyta	Magnemite (multiple)	Grimer	Gastly	Drowzee	Kingler
Voltorb	Hitmonchan ♂	Seaking	Starmie	Electabuzz	Magikarp
Vaporeon	Jolteon	Flareon

Trivia

Although this island shares the name with Mandarin Island South, there is very little in common. It is believed the islands are named the same because of a dubbing error. In Japan, their names are not the same.

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	キンカン島 Kinkan Tō	From 金柑 kinkan, kumquat
English, German	Mandarin Island North	From mandarin orange
French	Île de la Mandarine	From its English name
Italian	Isola dei Mandarini Nord	From its English name
Spanish	Isla Mandarina*	From its English name
Spanish	Isla Mandarín*	From its English name
Korean	캉캉섬 Kangkang Seom	Possibly from 낑깡 kkingkkang (kumquat)
Chinese	金柑島 / 金柑岛 Jīngān Dǎo*	From 金柑 jīngān (kumquat)
Chinese	柑橘島 Gāmgwāt Dóu*	From 柑橘 gāmgwāt (kumquat)
Danish	Mandarinøerne	From English name
Norwegian	Mandarin-øya	From English name
Polish	Wyspa Mandarynek	From English name
Swedish	Mandarinön	From English name