Batam
Batam is a small but busy island in the Riau Islands in Indonesia that is 45 km by 25 km, and has nearly a million people, hundreds of factories owned by multinationals, towns, shopping centres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Batam Centre and Nagoya.
Batam Centre
Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Batam Centre is a town in Batam developed by the government to become the centre to business and commerce, but up till now it consists mainly of government and office buildings. Most of the business and commerce is located in Nagoya.
Nagoya
Photo: Tun Tun Win, CC BY 2.0.
Nagoya, also known as Lubuk Baja, is the main town of the island of Batam in the Riau Islands of Indonesia.
Sekupang
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Sekupang is a town and district on the Indonesian island of Batam, in the Riau Islands. It is primarily known for its domestic ferry terminal, which has extensive services to points west towards Sumatra.
Batam
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “Batam Island”, “Battam”, and “Pulau Batam”
- Category: landform
- Location: Riau Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Polish—“Batam” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴淡島”
- Dutch: “Batam”
- Finnish: “Batam”
- French: “Île de Batam”
- German: “Batam”
- Indonesian: “Batam”
- Indonesian: “Kota Batam”
- Norwegian: “Batam”
- Polish: “Batam”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Batam”. Photo: Ibnuyahya, CC BY 3.0.