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Batam

Batam is a small but busy island in the in that is 45 km by 25 km, and has nearly a million people, hundreds of factories owned by multinationals, towns, shopping centres.
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, also known as Lubuk Baja, is the main town of the island of Batam in the of .

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, also called Nongsapura, is a sub-district of Batam City, Riau Islands. Named after the River, this district is famous for its beach tourism.

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is a town and district on the island of Batam, in the . It is primarily known for its domestic ferry terminal, which has extensive services to points west towards .

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, also known as Teluk Senimba, is a place on the island of Batam, , just south of . Don't be fooled by the name — is no city, it's a purpose-built tourist development home to two large hotels and not much else.

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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 .

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The are in the province, located administratively in the city of Batam, in . It includes Batam, Rempang, and Galang Islands.

Batam

Latitude of center
1.1031° or 1° 6′ 11″ north
Longitude of center
104.0384° or 104° 2′ 18″ east
Population
1,200,000
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
IATA airport code
BTH
United Nations Location Code
ID BTH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 506735403
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6295587
Wiki­data ID
Q10103
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Batam” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Batam”
  • Arabic: “باتام”
  • Arabic: “منطقة باتام للتجارة الحرة”
  • Armenian: “Բատամ”
  • Asturian: “Batam”
  • Balinese: “Kota Batam”
  • Basque: “Batam”
  • Belarusian: “Батам”
  • Bengali: “বাটাম”
  • Bengali: “বাতাম”
  • Betawi: “Kota Batam”
  • Bulgarian: “Батам”
  • Catalan: “Batam”
  • Cebuano: “Batam”
  • Chinese: “Batam Chhī”
  • Chinese: “巴淡”
  • Chinese: “巴淡島”
  • Chinese: “巴淡市”
  • Czech: “Batam”
  • Danish: “Batam”
  • Dutch: “Batam”
  • Esperanto: “Batam”
  • Finnish: “Batam”
  • French: “Batam”
  • Georgian: “ბატამი”
  • German: “Batam”
  • Greek: “Μπατάμ”
  • Gujarati: “બેટમ”
  • Hebrew: “באטאם”
  • Hebrew: “בטאם”
  • Hindi: “बाटम”
  • Hindi: “बाताम”
  • Indonesian: “B A T A M”
  • Indonesian: “Batam, Kepulauan Riau”
  • Indonesian: “Batam”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Batam”
  • Indonesian: “Kotamadya Batam”
  • Irish: “Batam”
  • Italian: “Batam”
  • Japanese: “バタム”
  • Japanese: “バタム島”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Batam”
  • Kannada: “ಬತಮ್”
  • Komering: “Batam”
  • Korean: “바탐 섬”
  • Korean: “바탐”
  • Korean: “바탐섬”
  • Latvian: “Batama”
  • Lithuanian: “Batamas”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Batam”
  • Malay: “Batam”
  • Malay: “Kota Batam”
  • Malay: “باتم”
  • Malayalam: “ബറ്റാം”
  • Marathi: “बटाम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Batam Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Batam”
  • Nias: “Kota Batam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Batam”
  • Norwegian: “Batam”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Batam”
  • Ossetian: “Батам”
  • Persian: “باتم”
  • Polish: “Batam”
  • Portuguese: “Batam”
  • Romanian: “Batam”
  • Russian: “Батам”
  • Sinhala: “බටම්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باتام”
  • Spanish: “Batam”
  • Spanish: “Bátam”
  • Swedish: “Batam”
  • Tagalog: “Batam”
  • Tamil: “பத்தாம்”
  • Tatar: “Батам”
  • Telugu: “బాటం”
  • Thai: “บาตัม”
  • Turkish: “Batam”
  • Ukrainian: “Батам”
  • Urdu: “باتام”
  • Venetian: “Batam”
  • Vietnamese: “Batam”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Batam”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴淡”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴淡”
  • “B A T A M”
  • “Batam”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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.