Batam
Batam is a small but busy island in the Riau Islands in Indonesia that is 45 km by 25 km, and has nearly a million people, hundreds of factories owned by multinationals, towns, shopping centres.Essential Destinations
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Batam
- Type: City with 1,200,000 residents
- Description: city in Riau Islands Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “B A T A M”, “Batam City”, “Batam, Kepulauan Riau”, “Kotamadya Batam”, “באטאם”, “منطقة باتام للتجارة الحرة”, and “巴淡市”
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kotamadya, and locality
- Location: Riau Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
ID BTH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Batam” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Batam”
- Arabic: “باتام”
- 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: “巴淡”
- Chinese: “巴淡島”
- Czech: “Batam”
- Danish: “Batam”
- Dutch: “Batam”
- Esperanto: “Batam”
- Finnish: “Batam”
- French: “Batam”
- Georgian: “ბატამი”
- German: “Batam”
- Greek: “Μπατάμ”
- Gujarati: “બેટમ”
- Hebrew: “בטאם”
- Hindi: “बाटम”
- Hindi: “बाताम”
- Indonesian: “Batam”
- Indonesian: “Kota Batam”
- Irish: “Batam”
- Italian: “Batam”
- Japanese: “バタム”
- Japanese: “バタム島”
- Javanese: “Kutha Batam”
- Kannada: “ಬತಂ”
- 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”
- “Batam”
- “ma tomo Patama”
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