Bantam

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  • Type: Village with 500 residents
  • Description: settlement on Home Island in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia
  • Also known as: Bantam Village”, “Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands”, and “Bantam, Cocos Islands

Places of Interest

Highlights include Home Island.

Island
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is one of only two permanently-inhabited islands of the 26 islands of the South Keeling Islands of the , an Australian external territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean.

Bantam

Latitude
-12.11764° or 12° 7′ 4″ south
Longitude
96.89642° or 96° 53′ 47″ east
Population
500
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
5MVRVVJW+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1986233349
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
1547382
Wiki­data ID
Q1266661
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Bantam” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Bantam
  • Arabic: بانتام
  • Belarusian: Бантам
  • Catalan: Bantam
  • Cebuano: Bantam Village
  • Chinese: 班坦
  • Chinese: 班特姆
  • Croatian: Bantam, Kokosovi otoci
  • Croatian: Bantam
  • Dutch: Bantam
  • French: Bantam
  • Hausa: Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) tsibiran
  • Hausa: Bantam, Cocos tsibiran
  • Hebrew: באנטם
  • Japanese: バンタム
  • Japanese: バンタム村
  • Macedonian: Бантам
  • Malay: Bantam, Kepulauan Cocos
  • Persian: بنتام، جزایر کوکوس (کیلینگ)
  • Persian: بنتام، جزایر کوکوس
  • Polish: Bantam
  • Portuguese: Bantam
  • Russian: Бантам
  • Serbian: Бантам
  • Slovak: Bantam
  • Spanish: Bantam
  • Swedish: Bantam Village
  • Ukrainian: Бантам
  • Urdu: بانٹم، جزائر کوکوس
  • Welsh: Bantam Village
  • Yoruba: Bantam

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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 “Bantam”. Photo: DO’Neil, Public domain.