West Sumba Regency
West Sumba Regency is a regency in East Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia. Established in 1958, the regency was considerably reduced on 2 January 2007 with the creation of new Regencies on Sumba Island under Law UU No.16 of that year.- Type: regency of Indonesia with 111,000 residents
- Description: regency in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Daerah Tingkat II Sumba Barat”, “Kabupaten Sumba Barat”, and “West Sumba”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waikabubak.
Waikabubak
Photo: Wybe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Waikabubak is a town on the island of Sumba, in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia, and is the capital of the West Sumba Regency. Initially a part of the Kupang Regency, Waikabubak was made capital of South West Sumba in 1913.
West Sumba Regency
- Location: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Balinese to Thai—“West Sumba Regency” goes by many names.
- Balinese: “Kabupatén Sumba Barat”
- Betawi: “Kabupatèn Sumba Kulon”
- Cebuano: “Kabupaten Sumba Barat”
- Chinese: “Sai Sumba Koān”
- Chinese: “西松巴县”
- Dutch: “West-Soemba”
- Dutch: “West-Sumba”
- French: “kabupaten de Sumba occidental”
- French: “Kabupaten de Sumba occidental”
- German: “Kabupaten Sumba Barat”
- German: “Westsumba”
- Indonesian: “Kab. Sumba Barat”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Sumba Barat”
- Indonesian: “Sumba Barat”
- Irish: “Sumba Thiar”
- Italian: “Reggenza di Sumba Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西スンバ県”
- Javanese: “Kabupatèn Sumba Kulon”
- Madurese: “Kabhupatèn Sumba Bârâ‘”
- Madurese: “Kabhupatèn Sumba Bârâ’”
- Malay: “Kabupaten Sumba Barat”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai Sumba Koān”
- Spanish: “Sumba Occidental”
- Swedish: “Kabupaten Sumba Barat”
- Thai: “อำเภอซุมบาตะวันตก”
- “Kab. Sumba Barat”
- “Sumba Barat”
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