Weh Island
Weh Island is a small active volcanic island to the northwest of Sumatra in Indonesia, also known as Sabang after the city situated on the northeast end of the island, whose area of 122.13 square kilometres includes the whole island as well as several offshore islets.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Sabang City, Aceh Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “pulo we”, “Sabang Island”, “We”, “We Island”, and “Weh”
- Historically known as: “Pulo Weh”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jaboi and Sabang.
Jaboi
Village
Jaboi or Jaboi Volcano is located in Jaboi Village, Sukajaya District, Weh Island, Aceh, about 15 kilometers from Sabang City. This mountain is an active volcano with a height of about 200 meters above sea level. Jaboi is situated 4 km southeast of Weh Island.
Sabang
Photo: Defriyanramzi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sabang is a town of 34,00 people on an island north of Banda Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra. The island's name is Weh Island and Sabang is the main town on the north coast, but the names are often used interchangeably.
Weh Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Weh Island” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Wèh”
- Achinese: “Wèh”
- Afrikaans: “Weh”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ويه”
- Arabic: “ويه”
- Aragonese: “Weh”
- Arpitan: “Weh”
- Asturian: “Weh”
- Azerbaijani: “Veh adası”
- Balinese: “Nusa Wéh”
- Balinese: “Weh”
- Banjar: “Weh”
- Basque: “Weh”
- Bavarian: “Weh”
- Belarusian: “Вех”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Вех”
- Breton: “Weh”
- Buginese: “Weh”
- Catalan: “Weh”
- Cebuano: “Pulau We”
- Chinese: “韋島”
- Chinese: “韦岛”
- Corsican: “Weh”
- Croatian: “Weh”
- Czech: “Pulau Weh”
- Czech: “Weh”
- Danish: “Weh”
- Dutch: “Pulau Weh”
- Dutch: “Weh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره ويه”
- Esperanto: “Weh”
- Estonian: “Weh”
- Finnish: “Weh”
- French: “Île de Weh”
- French: “Pulau Weh”
- French: “Weh”
- Friulian: “Weh”
- Galician: “Weh”
- Georgian: “ვეჰი”
- German: “Pulau Weh”
- German: “Pulo Weh”
- German: “Weh”
- Hungarian: “Weh”
- Icelandic: “Weh”
- Ido: “Weh”
- Indonesian: “Pulau We”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Weh”
- Indonesian: “Pulo Weh”
- Indonesian: “Weh”
- Interlingua: “Weh”
- Interlingue: “Weh”
- Irish: “Weh”
- Italian: “Isola di Weh”
- Italian: “Weh”
- Japanese: “ウェー島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Wèh”
- Javanese: “Wèh”
- Kongo: “Weh”
- Korean: “웨섬”
- Ligurian: “Weh”
- Limburgan: “Weh”
- Lithuanian: “Vehas”
- Lithuanian: “Veho sala”
- Low German: “Weh”
- Luxembourgish: “Weh”
- Malagasy: “Weh”
- Malay: “Pulau Weh”
- Malay: “Weh”
- Malayalam: “വെഹ് ദ്വീപ്”
- Minangkabau: “Weh”
- Narom: “Weh”
- Neapolitan: “Weh”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Weh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Weh”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Weh”
- Picard: “Weh”
- Piemontese: “Weh”
- Polish: “Weh”
- Portuguese: “Weh”
- Romanian: “Weh”
- Romansh: “Weh”
- Russian: “Вех”
- Sardinian: “Weh”
- Scots: “Weh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Weh”
- Serbian: “Veh”
- Serbian: “Вех”
- Sicilian: “Weh”
- Slovak: “Pulau Weh”
- Slovak: “Weh”
- Slovenian: “Weh”
- Spanish: “Isla de Weh”
- Spanish: “Pulau We”
- Spanish: “Pulau Weh”
- Sundanese: “Weh”
- Swahili: “Weh”
- Swedish: “Pulau Weh”
- Swedish: “Weh”
- Swiss German: “Weh”
- Tamil: “வே தீவு”
- Thai: “เกาะเวะฮ์”
- Venetian: “Weh”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Weh”
- Vlaams: “Weh”
- Volapük: “Weh”
- Walloon: “Weh”
- Welsh: “Weh”
- Wolof: “Weh”
- Zulu: “Weh”
- “Pulau Weh”
- “Sabang”
- “We”
- “Weh”
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