Borobudur

Borobudur is a Buddhist stupa and temple complex in dating from the 8th century, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is one of the world's truly great ancient monuments, the single largest Buddhist structure anywhere on earth, and few who visit fail to be taken by both the scale of place, and the remarkable attention to detail that went into the construction.
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Barabudur”, “Barabuḍur”, “Barabudura”, “Barabudurs”, “Bô-rô-bu-đua”, “Boeroe-Boedoer”, “Boro Budor”, “Boroboedoer”, “Borobúdur”, “Borobudur Temple”, “Borobudur-Tempel”, “Borobudura templis”, “Borobudurs”, “Borobudurtempel”, “Conjunto de borobudur”, “Conjunto de Borobudur”, “Conxunto de Borobudur”, “Gunadharma”, “Santuário de Borobodur”, “Santuário de Borobudur”, “Temple de borobudur”, “Tjandi Borobudur”, “Храм Боробудур”, “กลุ่มวัดบรมพุทโธ”, “เจดีย์บรมพุทโธ”, “บุโรพุทธโธ”, “บุโรพุทโธ”, “โบโรบุดูร์”, “พระมหาสถูปบุโรพุทโธ”, “มหาสถูปบุโรพุทโธ”, “보로부두르 사원”, “ボロブドール”, “ボロブドール寺院”, “ボロブドール遺跡”, “ボロブドゥール”, and “ボロブドゥール寺院”
  • Address: Magelang, Jawa Tengah
Photo: Heri nugroho, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Pawon and Samudra Raksa Museum.

Buddhist temple
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is a in , . Built during the Sailendra dynasty, it is a part of the Borobudur Temple Compounds which consists of three temples located on the same axis; Borobudur, , and .

Museum
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is a maritime museum that was built several hundred meters north of the 8th-century Borobudur Buddhist monument, within the Borobudur archaeological complex, , , .

Museum
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also known as Borobudur Museum, is an archaeology museum located just several hundred meters north of 8th century Borobudur Buddhist monument, within Borobudur Archaeological Park, , , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mendut.

Village
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is a village.

Borobudur

Latitude
-7.608° or 7° 36′ 29″ south
Longitude
110.2038° or 110° 12′ 14″ east
Elevation
272 metres (892 feet)
Wheelchair access
limited
Open location code
6P4G96R3+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 122741626
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­temple
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
1648141
Wiki­data ID
Q42798
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Borobudur” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Borobudur”
  • Albanian: “Borobuduri”
  • Arabic: “بوروبودور”
  • Armenian: “Բորոբուդուր”
  • Assamese: “বৰোবুদুৰ”
  • Asturian: “Borobudur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Borobudur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Borubudur”
  • Balinese: “Candi Borobudur”
  • Bashkir: “Боробудур”
  • Basque: “Borobudur”
  • Belarusian: “Барабудур”
  • Bengali: “বরোবুদুর”
  • Bulgarian: “Боробудур”
  • Burmese: “ဗောရောဗုဓော”
  • Catalan: “Borobudur”
  • Central Bikol: “Borobudur”
  • Chinese: “婆罗浮屠”
  • Chinese: “婆羅浮屠”
  • Croatian: “Borobudur”
  • Czech: “Borobudur”
  • Danish: “Borobudur”
  • Dutch: “Boduran”
  • Dutch: “Borobudur tempel”
  • Dutch: “Borobudur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوروبودور”
  • Esperanto: “Borobuduro”
  • Finnish: “Borobudur”
  • French: “Borobudur”
  • French: “Temple de Borobudur”
  • Galician: “Borobudur”
  • Gan Chinese: “婆羅浮屠”
  • Georgian: “ბორობუდური”
  • German: “Borobudur”
  • Greek: “Μπορομπουντούρ”
  • Gujarati: “બોરોબુદુર મંદિર સંકુલ”
  • Hebrew: “בורובודור”
  • Hindi: “बोरोबुदुर”
  • Hungarian: “Borobudur”
  • Icelandic: “Borobudur”
  • Indonesian: “Borobudur”
  • Indonesian: “Candi Borobudur”
  • Italian: “Borobudur”
  • Japanese: “ボロブドゥール遺跡”
  • Javanese: “Barabudhur”
  • Javanese: “Candhi Barabudhur”
  • Khmer: “បូរ៉ូប៊ូឌួ”
  • Korean: “보로부두르”
  • Latvian: “Borobudura”
  • Lithuanian: “Borobuduras”
  • Madurese: “Borobudur”
  • Maithili: “बोरोबुदुर”
  • Malay: “Borobudur”
  • Malayalam: “ബോറോബുദർ”
  • Maltese: “Borobudur”
  • Maori: “Borobudur”
  • Marathi: “बोरोबदूर”
  • Marathi: “बोरोबुदूर”
  • Minangkabau: “Borobudur”
  • Mongolian: “Боробудур”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بوروبودور”
  • Newari: “बोरोबुदुर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Borobudur”
  • Norwegian: “Borobudur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Borobudur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Temple de Borobudur”
  • Oriya: “ବୋରୋବୁଦୁର”
  • Persian: “بوروبودور”
  • Polish: “Borobudur”
  • Portuguese: “Borobodur”
  • Portuguese: “Borobudur”
  • Romanian: “Borobudur”
  • Russian: “Боробудур”
  • Sanskrit: “बोरोबुदुर्”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱳᱨᱳᱵᱩᱫᱩᱨ”
  • Scots: “Borobudur”
  • Serbian: “Борободур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Borobudur”
  • Sinhala: “බොරෝබුදූර්”
  • Slovak: “Borobudur”
  • Slovenian: “Borobudur”
  • Spanish: “Borobudur”
  • Sundanese: “Candi Borobudur”
  • Swedish: “Borobudur”
  • Tagalog: “Borobudur”
  • Tajik: “Боробудур”
  • Tamil: “போரோபுதூர்”
  • Telugu: “బోరోబుదూర్”
  • Tetum: “Komunikasaun sosial”
  • Thai: “โบโรบูดูร์”
  • Turkish: “Borobudur”
  • Ukrainian: “Боробудур”
  • Urdu: “بوروبدور مندر”
  • Uzbek: “Borobudur”
  • Vietnamese: “Borobudur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Borobudur”
  • Welsh: “Borobudur”
  • Wu Chinese: “婆罗浮屠”
  • Yue Chinese: “婆羅浮屠”

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