Dili

Dili is the capital city of 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.
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  • Type: City with 222,000 residents
  • Description: capital of East Timor
  • Also known as: “City of Dili”, “Delhi”, “Dilhi”, “Dilli”, “Dilly”, and “Nova Dili”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Dili Harbor Lighthouse and Immaculate Conception Cathedral.

Lighthouse
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The ) is a lighthouse on the shore of the Bay of Dili next to the beach on the west side of Dili, capital city of Timor-Leste. It assists with navigation into and out of the Port of Dili.

Church
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The Immaculate Conception Metropolitan Cathedral in Dili is the main church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dili, .

Government office
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The is the former official workplace of the President of Timor-Leste. It served in that role from 2002 to 2009. As of 2022, it was the headquarters of the East Timorese Ministry of Health.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taibesi.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Dili

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
United Nations Location Code
TL DIL
Open location code
6Q37CHWH+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262310617
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1645457
Wiki­data ID
Q9310
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Satellite Map

Discover Dili from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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: “Kota Dili”
  • 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: “Dili”
  • 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: “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 جو شهر”
  • Sindhi: “دلي”
  • Sindhi: “ديلي”
  • Sindhi: “ڊيلي”
  • Sinhala: “දිලි”
  • Slovak: “Dili”
  • Slovenian: “Dili”
  • Spanish: “Capital de Timor Oriental”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Timor Oriental”
  • Spanish: “Dili”
  • Sundanese: “Dili”
  • Swahili: “Dili”
  • Swedish: “Dili”
  • Tagalog: “Dili”
  • Tajik: “Дили”
  • Tajik: “Дилӣ”
  • Tamil: “டிலி”
  • Tatar: “Дили”
  • Telugu: “దిలి”
  • Tetum: “Dili, Díli”
  • 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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