Bitung

Bitung is a city and the main deep-water port of . Located on the eastern side of the province, Bitung also provides easy access to volcanoes, parks, and diving.
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  • Type: City with 219,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: Bitoeng”, “Bitsun”, “Bitung City”, and “Kota Bitung

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bitung Port.

Transport stop
Photo: Midori, CC BY 2.5.
Port of Bitung is a seaport located on Jalan D.S Sumolang in Bitung, , in . It is the largest port in the province, consists of both container and passenger ship ports.

Bitung

Latitude
1.4434° or 1° 26′ 36″ north
Longitude
125.1941° or 125° 11′ 39″ east
Population
219,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ID BIT
Open location code
6QH7C5VV+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 976683837
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1648637
Wiki­data ID
Q15845
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bitung” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: بيتونغ
  • Arabic: بيتونق
  • Balinese: Kota Bitung
  • Bengali: বাইতুং
  • Betawi: Kota Bitung
  • Catalan: Bitung
  • Cebuano: Bitung
  • Chinese: Bitung Chhī
  • Chinese: 比通
  • Danish: Bitung
  • Dutch: Bitung
  • Esperanto: Bitung
  • Finnish: Bitung
  • French: Bitung
  • German: Bitung
  • Gorontalo: Kota Bitung
  • Greek: Μπιτούνγκ
  • Gujarati: બિટુંગ
  • Hindi: बितूंग
  • Indonesian: Bitung
  • Indonesian: Kota Bitung
  • Irish: Bitung
  • Italian: Bitung
  • Japanese: ビツン
  • Japanese: ビトゥン
  • Japanese: ビトゥン市
  • Javanese: Kutha Bitung
  • Kannada: ಬಿಟಂಗ್
  • Korean: 비퉁
  • Latvian: Bitunga
  • Lithuanian: Bitungas
  • Malagasy: Kota Bitung
  • Malay: Bandar Bitung
  • Malay: Kota Bitung
  • Malay: کوتا بيتوڠ
  • Marathi: बिटुंग
  • Min Nan Chinese: Bitung Chhī
  • Mingrelian: ბიტუნგი
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Bitung
  • Norwegian: Bitung
  • Occitan (post 1500): Bitung
  • Persian: بیتونگ
  • Pfaelzisch: Bitung
  • Polish: Bitung
  • Portuguese: Bitung
  • Russian: Битунг
  • Sinhala: බිටුන්ග්
  • Spanish: Bitung
  • Swedish: Bitung
  • Tamil: பிடுங்
  • Tatar: Битуң
  • Telugu: బిటుంగ్
  • Thai: บิตุง
  • Turkish: Bitung
  • Ukrainian: Бітунг
  • Urdu: بیتونگ
  • Venetian: Bitung
  • Vietnamese: Bitung
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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 “Bitung”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.