Biak
Biak is the main city on the island of Biak, off the northwest coast of Papua, Indonesia. The largest population centre of Biak island is in this city, meanwhile the rest of the island is thinly populated with small villages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 41,700 residents
- Description: capital city of Biak Numfor Regency, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Biak-Stad”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Frans Kaisiepo Airport.
Frans Kaisiepo Airport
Aerodrome
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Frans Kaisiepo Airport is an airport on Biak island, in Papua, Indonesia. It is also known as Mokmer Airport. The airport is named after Frans Kaisiepo, the fourth Governor of Papua.
Biak
- Category: capital of regency
- Location: Biak Numfor Regency, Special Region of Papua, Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Swedish—“Biak” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বিয়াক”
- Cebuano: “Biak (kapital sa kabupaten sa Indonesia)”
- Cebuano: “Biak”
- Dutch: “Biak-stad”
- Dutch: “Biak”
- French: “Biak”
- Indonesian: “Biak Kota”
- Indonesian: “Biak”
- Swedish: “Biak (kabupatenhuvudort i Indonesien)”
- Swedish: “Biak”
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