Calang
Calang, the capital of the Aceh Jaya Regency of the special territory of Aceh, is on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. 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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Town
- Description: village in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Calong”, “Chalang”, “Tjalang”, and “Tyalang”
Calang
- Categories: capital of regency and locality
- Location: Aceh Jaya Regency, Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Calang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كالانغ”
- Dutch: “Calang”
- French: “Calang”
- Indonesian: “Calang”
- Japanese: “カラン (インドネシア)”
- Lithuanian: “Čalangas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Calang”
- Norwegian: “Calang”
- Polish: “Calang”
- Portuguese: “Calang, Aceh Jaya”
- Russian: “Чалангь”
- Spanish: “Calang, Aceh Jaya”
- Ukrainian: “Каланг”
- Urdu: “چالانگ”
- “Calang”
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