Tanimbar Islands
The Tanimbar Islands, also called Timur Laut, are a group of about 65 islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia. The largest and most central of the islands is Yamdena; others include Selaru to the southwest of Yamdena, Larat and Fordata to the northeast, Maru and Molu to the north, and Seira, Wuliaru, Selu, Wotap and Makasar to the west.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago located between Banda Sea and Arafura Sea in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Tanimbar archipelago”, “Tanimbar-eilanden”, “Tenimber archipelago”, “Tenimber Islands”, “Timor Laut”, “Timorlaoet Eilanden”, and “Timorlaut”
Tanimbar Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Maluku, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Tanimbar Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر تانيمبار”
- Asturian: “Islles Tanimbar”
- Basque: “Tanimbar uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Танімбар”
- Belarusian: “Танімбар”
- Catalan: “Illes Tanimbar”
- Catalan: “Tanimbar”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Pulau Tanimbar”
- Chinese: “塔宁巴尔群岛”
- Chinese: “塔寧巴爾群島”
- Czech: “Tanimbarské ostrovy”
- Dutch: “Tanimbar-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Tanimbareilanden”
- Dutch: “Timorlaoet Eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Tanimbaraj Insuloj”
- Estonian: “Tanimbar”
- Estonian: “Tanimbari saared”
- Estonian: “Timor Laut”
- French: “Iles Tanimbar”
- French: “îles Tanimbar”
- French: “Îles Tanimbar”
- French: “Tanimbar”
- Galician: “Illas Tanimbar”
- German: “Tanimbar-Inseln”
- German: “Tanimbarinseln”
- German: “Tenimber-Inseln”
- German: “Tenimberinseln”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Tanimbar”
- Hebrew: “איי טנימבר”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Tanimbar”
- Indonesian: “Pulau-pulau Tanimbar”
- Indonesian: “Timor Laut”
- Indonesian: “Timorlaut”
- Italian: “Isole Tanimbar”
- Japanese: “タニンバル諸島”
- Latvian: “Tanimbaras salas”
- Lithuanian: “Tanimbaro salos”
- Macedonian: “Танимбар”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Tanimbar”
- Malayalam: “Tanimbar Islands”
- Malayalam: “ടാനിംബാർ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Malayalam: “ടാനിംബാർ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanimbarøyene”
- Norwegian: “Tanimbarøyene”
- Polish: “Tanimbar”
- Polish: “Wyspy Tanimbar”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Tanimbar”
- Portuguese: “Tanimbar”
- Russian: “Острова Танимбар”
- Russian: “Танимбар”
- Spanish: “Islas Tanimbar”
- Spanish: “Tanimbar”
- Swedish: “Tanimbaröarna”
- Turkish: “Tanimbar Adaları”
- Turkish: “Tanimbar”
- Ukrainian: “Танімбар”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Tanimbar”
- Western Mari: “Танимбар”
- “Tanimbar”
- “Timorlaoet”
- “Timorlaut”
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