Belitung
Belitung is one of the two main islands of the Bangka-Belitung province in Indonesia. While its big brother, Bangka, has developed as an economic center, Belitung generally remains a sleepy island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Tanjung Pandan
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Tanjungpandan, also colloquially written as Tanjung Pandan, is the largest town on the island of Belitung in the Indonesian province of Bangka Belitung Islands.
Manggar
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Manggar is a town in the Indonesian province of Bangka-Belitung, Indonesia which is a port on the east coast of Belitung Island, and is the seat of the East Belitung Regency. The town was founded as a tin mining town in the 19th century.
Belitung
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bangka Belitung Islands Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Belitoeng”, “Belitong”, “Belitung Island”, “Billiton”, “Billiton Island”, and “Pulau Belitung”
- Category: landform
- Location: Bangka-Belitung, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-2.8333° or 2° 50′ southLongitude
107.9167° or 107° 55′ eastPopulation
160,000Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open location code
6P995W88+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 931543655
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Belitung” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بليتوغ”
- Arabic: “بليتونغ”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بليتونغ”
- Armenian: “Բելիտունգ”
- Asturian: “Islla de Belitung”
- Azerbaijani: “Belitung”
- Azerbaijani: “Belitunq”
- Basque: “Belitung”
- Belarusian: “Белітунг”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Белітунг”
- Bulgarian: “Белитунг”
- Catalan: “Belitung”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Belitung”
- Chinese: “勿里洞”
- Chinese: “勿里洞岛”
- Chinese: “勿里洞島”
- Chinese: “北櫖洲”
- Chinese: “麻葉甕”
- Czech: “Belitung”
- Danish: “Belitung”
- Danish: “Billiton”
- Dutch: “Belitung”
- Dutch: “Billiton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بليتونج”
- Esperanto: “Belitungo”
- Estonian: “Belitung”
- Finnish: “Belitung”
- Finnish: “Billiton”
- French: “Belitung”
- Galician: “Belitung”
- German: “Belitung”
- Greek: “Μπελιτούνγκ”
- Greek: “Μπελίτουνγκ”
- Hebrew: “בליטונג”
- Indonesian: “Belitong”
- Indonesian: “Belitung”
- Indonesian: “Biliton”
- Indonesian: “Billiton”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Belitung”
- Italian: “Belitung”
- Japanese: “ブリトゥン島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Belitung”
- Korean: “벨리퉁 섬”
- Korean: “블리퉁섬”
- Latvian: “Belituna”
- Literary Chinese: “麻葉甕”
- Lithuanian: “Belitungas”
- Malay: “Pulau Belitung”
- Malayalam: “ബെലിതുന്ഗ്”
- Minangkabau: “Belitong”
- Minangkabau: “Biliton”
- Minangkabau: “Pulau Belitung”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belitung Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belitung”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Billiton”
- Norwegian: “Belitung”
- Polish: “Belitung”
- Portuguese: “Belitung”
- Portuguese: “Bilitom”
- Russian: “Белитунг”
- Russian: “Биллитон”
- Saterfriesisch: “Belitung”
- Spanish: “Belitung”
- Spanish: “Isla de Belitung”
- Swedish: “Belitung”
- Swedish: “Billiton”
- Ukrainian: “Белітунг”
- Ukrainian: “Біллітон”
- Vietnamese: “Belitung”
- Waray (Philippines): “Belitung”
- Wu Chinese: “勿里洞島”
- Yue Chinese: “勿里洞島”
- “Belitoeng”
- “Belitong”
- “Belituna”
- “Belitung”
- “Belitungas”
- “Billiton”
- “Pulau Belitung”
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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 “Belitung”. Photo: HeyFromINDO, CC BY-SA 4.0.