Tuangku
Tuangku is the main and largest island in the Banyak Islands group in Indonesia. The largest town on the island is Haloban. As a consequence of the 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake, the island dropped rendering the coastal residences useless and damaging the port.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Aceh Singkil Regency, Aceh Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Groot Banjak”, “Pulau Tuangk”, “Pulau Tuangku”, “Toeangkoe Island”, “Tuangk”, “Tuangk Island”, and “Tuangku Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Banyak Islands.
Banyak Islands
Photo: The coral sikandang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Banyak Islands are a group of tiny islands off the western coast of Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, primarily visited on surfing charters. The islands are about 100 km north of the island of Nias.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haloban.
Haloban
Village
Haloban is the largest village on the island of Tuangku in the Banyak Islands, off Sumatra. It is located on the northern shore of the island. Haloban is situated 8 km northwest of Tuangku.
Tuangku
- 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 Swedish—“Tuangku” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Tuangku”
- Arabic: “توانغكو”
- Arabic: “توانكو”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Tuangku”
- Cebuano: “Tuangku”
- Chinese: “團庫島”
- Dutch: “Groot Banjak”
- Dutch: “Tuangku”
- Indonesian: “Poelau Toengko”
- Indonesian: “Poelo Toeangkoe”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Tuangku”
- Indonesian: “Tuangku”
- Javanese: “Pulo Tuangku”
- Malay: “Pulau Tuangku”
- Malayalam: “ക്൩൯൫൭൮൦൭”
- Malayalam: “തുഅന്ഗ്കു”
- Malayalam: “പുലാഉ തുഅന്ഗ്ക്”
- Swedish: “Pulau Tuangku”
- Swedish: “Tuangku”
- “Groot Banjak”
- “Pulau Tuangku”
- “Toeangkoe”
- “Toengko”
- “Tuangku”
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