Yapen Island
Yapen is an island of Papua, Indonesia. The Yapen Strait separates Yapen and the Biak Islands to the north. It is in Cenderawasih Bay off the north-western coast of the island of New Guinea.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,500 metres (4,910 feet)
- Description: island in Yapen Islands Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia
- Also known as“Japen”“Japen Island”“Jobi”“Pulau Yapen”“Sorenarwa”“Sorenarwa Island”“Yapen”
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
-1.74381° or 1° 44′ 38″ south
Longitude
136.15425° or 136° 9′ 15″ east
Open location code
6QCR7543+FM
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Yapen Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة يابن”
- Azerbaijani: “Yapen adası”
- Bambara: “Yapen”
- Basque: “Yapen”
- Breton: “Enez Yapen”
- Breton: “Yapen”
- Catalan: “Yapen”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Japen (pulo sa Indonesia)”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Japen”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Sorenarwa”
- Chinese: “亚彭岛”
- Chinese: “亞彭島”
- Czech: “Japen”
- Czech: “Yapen”
- Dutch: “Japen”
- Dutch: “Yapen”
- Esperanto: “Japen”
- French: “Yapen”
- Galician: “Yapen”
- German: “Japen”
- German: “Yapen”
- Greek: “Γιάπεν”
- Hebrew: “יאפן”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Japen”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sorenarwa”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Yapen”
- Indonesian: “Yapen”
- Italian: “Yapen”
- Japanese: “ヤーペン島”
- Japanese: “ヤペン島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Yapen”
- Latvian: “Japena”
- Lithuanian: “Japenas”
- Malayalam: “യപെന്”
- Malayalam: “യാപെൻ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yapen”
- Norwegian: “Yapen”
- Polish: “Yapen”
- Portuguese: “Jóbi”
- Portuguese: “Yapen”
- Russian: “Япен”
- Spanish: “Yapen”
- Swedish: “Pulau Sorenarwa”
- Swedish: “Yapen”
- Ukrainian: “Япен”
- Vietnamese: “Yapen”
- Western Frisian: “Japen”
- Western Mari: “Йапен”
- Western Mari: “Япен”
- “Sorenarwa”
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