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Calang

Calang, the capital of the of the special territory of , is on the island of , . It had a population of about 12,000 though it was reported to have "vanished completely leaving only scattered shards of concrete" as a result of the tsunami produced by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
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  • Type: Town
  • Description: village in Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Calong”, “Chalang”, “Tjalang”, and “Tyalang”

Calang

Latitude
4.63068° or 4° 37′ 50″ north
Longitude
95.57655° or 95° 34′ 36″ east
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ID CLG
Open location code
6MPQJHJG+7J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3120318495
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1215262
Wiki­data ID
Q2474681
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Calang” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كالانغ”
  • Dutch: “Calang”
  • French: “Calang”
  • Indonesian: “Calang”
  • Japanese: “カラン (インドネシア)”
  • Lithuanian: “Calangas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Calang”
  • Norwegian: “Calang”
  • Polish: “Calang”
  • Portuguese: “Calang, Aceh Jaya”
  • Russian: “Чалангь”
  • Spanish: “Calang, Aceh Jaya”
  • Ukrainian: “Каланг”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Calang”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.