Lake Sentani
Lake Sentani is a tropical, shallow, and at low-altitude open lake located at the northeast extremity of the Jayapura Regency in the Indonesian province of Papua, about 20 kilometres from the provincial capital, Jayapura City.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kiko Turteliny, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Danau Sentani” and “Sentani Lake”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sentani.
Sentani
Town
Sentani is an administrative district and also a town which serves as the capital of Jayapura Regency, in Papua, Indonesia. Sentani District has an area of around 79.80 km2 with a total population in mid 2023 of around 84,648 people, and a population density of around 1,061/km with 69,186 inhabitants in mid 2023. Sentani is situated 9 km northwest of Lake Sentani.
Lake Sentani
- Category: body of water
- Location: Special Region of Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Lake Sentani from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Balinese to Welsh—“Lake Sentani” goes by many names.
- Balinese: “Danu Sentani”
- Catalan: “Estany Sentani”
- Catalan: “Llac Sentani”
- Cebuano: “Danau Sentani”
- Chinese: “森塔尼湖”
- Czech: “Jezero Sentani”
- Czech: “Sentani”
- Dutch: “Sentani-meer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره سينتانى”
- French: “lac Sentani”
- French: “Lac Sentani”
- German: “Sentani-See”
- German: “Sentani”
- Indonesian: “Danau Sentani”
- Japanese: “センタニ湖”
- Javanese: “Tlaga Sentani”
- Malayalam: “സെന്റാനി തടാകം”
- Minangkabau: “Danau Sentani”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sentanisjøen”
- Spanish: “Sentani”
- Swedish: “Danau Sentani”
- Vietnamese: “Lake Sentani”
- Welsh: “Llyn Sentani”
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