Dili
Dili is the capital city of Timor-Leste and its largest city. It is squeezed along the narrow plains between Timor's northern coast and the central mountains which run the length of the island.
- Type: City with 222,000 residents
- Description: capital of East Timor
- Also known as: “Capital de Timor Oriental”, “City of Dili”, “Ciudad de Timor Oriental”, “Delhi”, “Dilhi”, “Dili, Díli”, “Dilli”, “Dilly”, “Kota Dili”, “Nova Dili”, and “دلي جو شهر”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dili Harbor Lighthouse and Immaculate Conception Cathedral.
Palácio das Cinzas
Government office
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taibesi.
Dili
- Categories: capital city, national capital, and locality
- Location: Caicoli, Vera Cruz Administrative Post, Dili Municipality, Timorese North Coast, Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-8.5537° or 8° 33′ 13″ south
Longitude
125.5784° or 125° 34′ 42″ east
Population
222,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
DIL
UN/LOCODE
TL DIL
Open location code
6Q37CHWH+G9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Dili” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Dili”
- Afrikaans: “Dili”
- Albanian: “Dili”
- Amharic: “ዲሊ”
- Arabic: “ديلي”
- Aragonese: “Dili”
- Armenian: “Դիլի”
- Arpitan: “Dili”
- Asturian: “Dili”
- Azerbaijani: “Dili”
- Balinese: “Dili”
- Bashkir: “Дили”
- Basque: “Dili”
- Bavarian: “Dili”
- Belarusian: “Дылі”
- Bengali: “দিলি”
- Bosnian: “Dili”
- Breton: “Dili”
- Bulgarian: “Дили”
- Burmese: “ဒီလီမြို့”
- Catalan: “Dili”
- Cebuano: “Dili (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Dili”
- Central Bikol: “Dili”
- Central Kurdish: “دیلی”
- Chechen: “Дили”
- Chinese: “帝力”
- Croatian: “Dili”
- Czech: “Dili”
- Danish: “Dili”
- Dutch: “Dili”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديلى”
- Esperanto: “Dilo”
- Estonian: “Dili”
- Fiji Hindi: “Dili”
- Finnish: “Dili”
- French: “Dili”
- Gagauz: “Dili”
- Galician: “Dili”
- Georgian: “დილი”
- German: “Dili”
- Greek: “Ντίλι”
- Gujarati: “દિલી”
- Haitian: “Dili”
- Hakka Chinese: “Dili”
- Hebrew: “דילי”
- Hindi: “दिली”
- Hungarian: “Dili”
- Iban: “Dili”
- Icelandic: “Dili”
- Ido: “Dili”
- Iloko: “Dili”
- Indonesian: “Dili”
- Interlingue: “Dili”
- Irish: “Dili”
- Italian: “Dili”
- Japanese: “ディリ”
- Javanese: “Dili”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Dili”
- Kannada: “ಡಿಲಿ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Dili”
- Kazakh: “Дили”
- Khmer: “ឌីលី”
- Kirghiz: “Дили”
- Korean: “딜리”
- Ladino: “Dili”
- Lao: “ດິລີ”
- Lao: “ດີລີ”
- Latin: “Dili”
- Latin: “Dilium”
- Latvian: “Dili”
- Ligurian: “Dili”
- Lingala: “Dili”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Dili”
- Lithuanian: “Dilis”
- Livvi: “Dili”
- Lombard: “Dili”
- Luxembourgish: “Dili”
- Macedonian: “Дили”
- Magahi: “दिली”
- Malagasy: “Dili”
- Malay: “Dili”
- Malayalam: “ദിലി”
- Marathi: “दिली”
- Mazanderani: “دیلی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dili”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dili”
- Minangkabau: “Dili”
- Mingrelian: “დილი”
- Mongolian: “Дили”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ديلي”
- Nepali: “डिली”
- Northern Frisian: “Dili”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dili”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dili”
- Norwegian: “Dili”
- Novial: “Dili”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dili”
- Ossetian: “Дили”
- Panjabi: “ਦੀਲੀ”
- Papiamento: “Dili”
- Persian: “دیلی”
- Piemontese: “Dili”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Dili”
- Polish: “Dili”
- Portuguese: “Díli”
- Pushto: “دیلی”
- Romanian: “Dili”
- Russian: “Дили”
- Sakizaya: “Tili”
- Santali: “ᱰᱤᱞᱤ”
- Sardinian: “Dili”
- Scots: “Dili”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dili”
- Serbian: “Дили”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dili”
- Shona: “Dili”
- Sicilian: “Dili”
- Sindhi: “دلي”
- Sindhi: “ڊيلي”
- Sinhala: “දිලි”
- Slovak: “Dili”
- Slovenian: “Dili”
- Spanish: “Dili”
- Sundanese: “Dili”
- Swahili: “Dili”
- Swedish: “Dili”
- Tagalog: “Dili”
- Tajik: “Дили”
- Tajik: “Дилӣ”
- Tamil: “டிலி”
- Tatar: “Дили”
- Telugu: “దిలి”
- Tetum: “Dili”
- Tetum: “Díli”
- Thai: “ดิลี”
- Tibetan: “དྷི་ལི།”
- Tok Pisin: “Dili”
- Turkish: “Dili”
- Udmurt: “Дили”
- Uighur: “دىلى”
- Ukrainian: “Ділі”
- Urdu: “دیلی”
- Uzbek: “Dili”
- Venetian: “Dili”
- Veps: “Dili”
- Vietnamese: “Dili”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dili”
- Welsh: “Dili”
- Western Frisian: “Dili”
- Western Frisian: “Dily”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈلی”
- Wu Chinese: “帝力”
- Yoruba: “Dili”
- Yue Chinese: “帝力”
- Zulu: “i-Dili”
- “Dili”
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