Alor Island
Alor is the largest island in the Alor Archipelago and is one of the 92 officially listed outlying islands of Indonesia. It is located at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain that runs through southeastern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores.
- Island
- …has 145,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 896 metres (2,940 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ARD
- …was formerly known as “Ombai Island”
- Description: island in Alor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
- Also known as“ARD”“Eiland Alor”“Pulau Alor”
Alor Island
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
-8.27898° or 8° 16′ 44″ south
Longitude
124.74532° or 124° 44′ 43″ east
UN/LOCODE
ID ARD
Open location code
6Q36PPCW+C4
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Alor Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ألور”
- Balinese: “Nusa Alor”
- Belarusian: “Алор (востраў)”
- Belarusian: “Алор”
- Cebuano: “Alor Island”
- Chinese: “阿洛岛”
- Chinese: “阿洛島”
- Dutch: “Alor”
- Dutch: “Eiland Alor”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره الور”
- Esperanto: “Alor”
- Estonian: “Alor”
- Finnish: “Alor”
- French: “Alor”
- Galician: “Illa Alor”
- Galician: “Pulau Alor”
- German: “Alor”
- German: “Ombai”
- Indonesian: “Alor”
- Indonesian: “Poelau Ombai”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Alor”
- Italian: “Alor”
- Italian: “isola Alor”
- Italian: “Isola Alor”
- Japanese: “アロール島”
- Japanese: “アロル島”
- Javanese: “Alor”
- Javanese: “Pulo Alor”
- Korean: “알로르섬”
- Latvian: “Alora”
- Lithuanian: “Aloras”
- Malay: “Alor”
- Malay: “Pulau Alor”
- Malayalam: “ആളോറ്”
- Polish: “Alor”
- Portuguese: “Alor”
- Russian: “Алор”
- Spanish: “Alor”
- Spanish: “Isla Alor”
- Swahili: “Alor”
- Swedish: “Alor Island”
- Ukrainian: “Алор”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ الور”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Alor”
- Western Mari: “Алор”
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