Bacan Islands
The Bacan Islands, formerly also known as the Bachans, Bachians, and Batchians, are a group of islands in the Moluccas in Indonesia. They are mountainous and forested, lying south of Ternate and southwest of Halmahera.- Type: Island
- Description: Group of islands in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Bacan islands”, “Bachan Islands”, “Bachian Islands”, “Batchian Isalnds”, “Batjan Eilanden”, and “Kepulauan Bacan”
Bacan Islands
- Categories: archipelago, locality, and landform
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.58333° or 0° 35′ south
Longitude
127.5° or 127° 30′ east
Population
60,700
Elevation
78 metres (256 feet)
Open location code
6QF9CG82+M2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bacan Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر باكان”
- Arabic: “جزيرة باكان”
- Basque: “Bacan”
- Catalan: “Bacan”
- Catalan: “Batjan”
- Cebuano: “Kepulauan Bacan”
- Chinese: “巴占群島”
- Dutch: “Batjan Eilanden”
- Dutch: “Batjaneilanden”
- Esperanto: “Bakanoj”
- Finnish: “Bacan”
- Finnish: “Bachan”
- French: “Bacan”
- Galician: “Bacan”
- Georgian: “ბაჩანის კუნძულები”
- German: “Bacaninseln”
- German: “Batjan”
- Hebrew: “באצ’אן”
- Hebrew: “באקאן”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Bacan”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Batjan”
- Indonesian: “Pulau-pulau Batjan”
- Italian: “Bacan”
- Japanese: “バカン島”
- Japanese: “バカン諸島”
- Japanese: “バチャン島”
- Japanese: “バチャン諸島”
- Korean: “바칸 제도”
- Latvian: “Bačanu salas”
- Macedonian: “Бачан”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Bacan”
- Malayalam: “ബക്കാൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Polish: “Bacan”
- Portuguese: “Bacan”
- Russian: “Бачан”
- Slovenian: “Bačanski otoki”
- Spanish: “Bacan”
- Swedish: “Bacan”
- Swedish: “Bacanöarna”
- Swedish: “Kepulauan Bacan”
- Turkish: “Bacan adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Бачан”
- Vietnamese: “Bacan”
- Western Mari: “Бачан”
- Wu Chinese: “巴占群島”
- Yue Chinese: “巴占群島”
- “Bacan”
- “Bachan”
- “Bachian”
- “Batjan”
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