Ambon
Ambon is an island in the Maluku region of Indonesia and also the name of its largest city: Ambon City. The island consists of two regions: Ambon City and Central Maluku Regency.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bas de Koning, Public domain.
- Type: island with 348,000 residents
- Description: island in Maluku Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Amboina”, “Ambon Island”, “Amboyna”, “Kotapradja Ambon”, and “Pulau Ambon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ambon War Cemetery.
Ambon
- Location: Maluku, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ambon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة أمبون”
- Azerbaijani: “Ambon”
- Balinese: “Nusa Ambon”
- Basque: “Ambon”
- Belarusian: “Амбон”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Амбон”
- Bengali: “আমবন”
- Breton: “Enez Ambon”
- Catalan: “Amboina”
- Catalan: “Ambon”
- Catalan: “Amboyna”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Ambon”
- Chinese: “安汶岛”
- Chinese: “安汶島”
- Chinese: “安波衣拿”
- Chinese: “安波那”
- Czech: “Ambon”
- Danish: “Ambon”
- Dutch: “Ambon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره امبون”
- Esperanto: “Ambon”
- Estonian: “Amboni saar”
- Finnish: “Ambon”
- French: “Amboine”
- French: “Ambon”
- French: “Île Ambon”
- Galician: “Ambón”
- Georgian: “ამბონი (კუნძული)”
- Georgian: “ამბონი”
- German: “Amboina”
- German: “Ambon”
- Hebrew: “אמבון”
- Hindi: “आम्बोन द्वीप”
- Indonesian: “Ambon”
- Indonesian: “Kota Ambon”
- Indonesian: “Kotamadya Ambon”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Ambon”
- Italian: “Ambon”
- Italian: “Isola Ambon”
- Italian: “Isola di Ambon”
- Japanese: “アンボイナ島”
- Japanese: “アンボン島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Ambon”
- Korean: “암본섬”
- Latin: “Amboina”
- Lithuanian: “Ambonas”
- Lithuanian: “Ambono sala”
- Macedonian: “Амбон”
- Malay: “Ambon”
- Malay: “Embun”
- Malay: “Pulau Ambon”
- Malay: “Pulau Embun”
- Malay: “ڤولاو امبون”
- Malayalam: “അംപൊൺ ദ്വീപ്”
- Malayalam: “ആമ്പോൺ ദ്വീപ്”
- Malayalam: “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ambon”
- Norwegian: “Ambon”
- Persian: “جزیره آمبون”
- Polish: “Amboina”
- Polish: “Ambon”
- Portuguese: “Amboina”
- Portuguese: “Amboíno”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Ambon”
- Russian: “Амбойна”
- Russian: “Амбон”
- Serbian: “Ambon”
- Serbian: “Амбон”
- Spanish: “Amboina”
- Spanish: “Ambon”
- Spanish: “Amboyna”
- Spanish: “Isla Ambon”
- Spanish: “Isla de Ambon”
- Swahili: “Ambon”
- Swedish: “Amboina”
- Swedish: “Ambon”
- Tamil: “அம்போன் தீவு”
- Thai: “Ambon Island”
- Thai: “เกาะอัมบน”
- Turkish: “Ambon Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Амбон”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ امبون”
- Uzbek: “Ambon oroli”
- Vietnamese: “Ambon”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Ambon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ambon (purô)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ambon”
- Western Mari: “Амбон ошмаоты”
- Western Panjabi: “امبون”
- Wu Chinese: “安汶島”
- Yue Chinese: “安汶島”
- “Amboina”
- “Ambon”
- “Pulau Ambon”
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