Kaneohe is a district located in the state of Hawaii in the United State of America. It's the largest of the communities running along the Kaneohe Bay and spread over an area of approximately eight and a half square miles out of which twenty two percent is water. Kaneohe along with Kailua forms the two biggest residential communities in Oahu with Kamehameha Highway constituting most of the commercial area of the town. The name Kaneohe is derived from the Hawaiian language which literally means Bamboo man; a name given to a place based on an old story of a Hawaiian woman when she compared her husbands malevolence with the edge of a cutting bamboo.