Java

Java is an island in . The much smaller but still sizable island of , off the coast of and covered as part of the region of , is also included in this article.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Jakarta and East Java.
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is 's capital and largest city, with…
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covers the eastern third of the island…
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is the capital city of West Java province, and…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Western Java and Central Java.
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is the western third of the island of Java, .
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is the heartland of Javanese culture.

Java

  • Island with about 160,000,000 residents
  • …was formerly known as “Pulau Djawa”
  • Description: island of Indonesia
  • Also known as
    “Java Island”
    “Java, Indonesia”
    “Jawa”
    “Jawa Island”
    “Pulau Java”
    “Pulau Jawa”
    “Ява”
  • Location
  • View on Open­Street­Map
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Latitude of center
-7.4917° or 7° 29′ 30″ south
Longitude of center
110.0044° or 110° 0′ 16″ east
Geo­Names ID
1642673
Wiki­data ID
Q3757

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Java” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Jawa”
  • Achinese: “Jawoë”
  • Afrikaans: “Java”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli Java”
  • Albanian: “Xhava”
  • Amharic: “ጃዋ”
  • Arabic: “جاوا”
  • Arabic: “جاوة”
  • Arabic: “جاوه”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة جاوا”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة جاوة”
  • Aragonese: “Chava”
  • Armenian: “Ճավա”
  • Assamese: “জাভা দ্বীপ”
  • Asturian: “Xava”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yava”
  • Balinese: “Jawa”
  • Banjar: “Jawa”
  • Banjar: “Pulau Jawa”
  • Bashkir: “Ява”
  • Basque: “Java”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Jawa”
  • Batak Toba: “Pulo Jawa”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Ява”
  • Belarusian: “Ява”
  • Bengali: “জাভা দ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “জাভা”
  • Bosnian: “Java”
  • Breton: “Jawa”
  • Buginese: “Jawa”
  • Buginese: “ᨍᨓ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ява”
  • Burmese: “ဂျားဗားကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “illa de Java”
  • Catalan: “Java”
  • Cebuano: “Java”
  • Central Bikol: “Haba”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla nin Haba”
  • Central Kurdish: “جاڤا”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەی جاوا”
  • Chinese: “渣華”
  • Chinese: “爪哇岛”
  • Chinese: “爪哇島”
  • Croatian: “Java”
  • Czech: “Jáva”
  • Danish: “Java”
  • Dutch: “Java (eiland)”
  • Dutch: “Java”
  • Esperanto: “Javo”
  • Estonian: “Jaava”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Java”
  • Finnish: “Jaava”
  • French: “Djawa”
  • French: “île de Java”
  • French: “Java”
  • Galician: “Xava”
  • Georgian: “იავა”
  • German: “Java”
  • German: “Jawa”
  • Gorontalo: “Jawa”
  • Greek: “Ιάβα”
  • Gujarati: “જાવા”
  • Haitian: “Jawa”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Jawa”
  • Hausa: “Java”
  • Hebrew: “ג’אווה”
  • Hindi: “जावा”
  • Hungarian: “Jáva”
  • Iban: “Jawa”
  • Icelandic: “Java”
  • Ido: “Java”
  • Iloko: “Java”
  • Indonesian: “Jawa”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Djawa”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Jawa”
  • Interlingua: “Java”
  • Interlingue: “Java”
  • Irish: “Iáva”
  • Italian: “Giava”
  • Japanese: “ジャワ島”
  • Javanese: “Jawa”
  • Javanese: “ꦗꦮ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಾವಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yava”
  • Kazakh: “Ява”
  • Khmer: “កោះជ្វា”
  • Kirghiz: “Ява аралы”
  • Kirghiz: “Ява”
  • Komering: “Jawa”
  • Komering: “Pulau Jawa”
  • Korean: “자와섬”
  • Korean: “쟈바”
  • Kurdish: “Cava”
  • Ladino: “Djava”
  • Lao: “ເກາະຈາວາ”
  • Lao: “ຈາວາ”
  • Latin: “Iava”
  • Latvian: “Java”
  • Limburgan: “Java”
  • Literary Chinese: “爪哇島”
  • Lithuanian: “Džava”
  • Lithuanian: “Java”
  • Lombard: “Giava”
  • Luxembourgish: “Java”
  • Macedonian: “Јава”
  • Madurese: “Jhâbâ”
  • Malagasy: “Java”
  • Malay: “Jawa”
  • Malay: “جاوا”
  • Malayalam: “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന്‍ ദീപ്”
  • Malayalam: “ജാവ”
  • Marathi: “जावा”
  • Mazanderani: “جاوه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jawa”
  • Minangkabau: “Jawa”
  • Mongolian: “Жава”
  • Nepali: “जावा द्वीप”
  • Newari: “जावा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jaawa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Java (øy)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Java”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Java”
  • Norwegian: “Java”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Java”
  • Oriya: “ଜାଭା”
  • Ossetian: “Явæ”
  • Pampanga: “Java”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਾਵਾ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Java”
  • Persian: “جاوه”
  • Persian: “جزیره جاوه”
  • Piemontese: “Giava”
  • Polish: “Jawa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Java”
  • Portuguese: “Java”
  • Quechua: “Hawa wat’a”
  • Romanian: “Insula Java”
  • Romanian: “Java”
  • Russian: “Джава”
  • Russian: “Ява”
  • Sanskrit: “यवद्वीप”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱟᱵᱷᱟ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Java”
  • Scots: “Java”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Diàbha”
  • Serbian: “Јава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Java”
  • Shan: “ၵျႃႇဝႃး”
  • Shan: “ၵုၼ်ၵျႃႇဝႃး”
  • Sicilian: “Giava”
  • Silesian: “Jawa”
  • Sindhi: “جاوا”
  • Sinhala: “ජාවා දූපත”
  • Sinhala: “ජාවා”
  • Slovak: “Jáva”
  • Slovenian: “Java”
  • Spanish: “Java”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Java”
  • Sundanese: “Jawa”
  • Sundanese: “Pulo Jawa”
  • Swahili: “Java”
  • Swedish: “Java”
  • Tagalog: “Haba”
  • Tagalog: “Java”
  • Tajik: “Ҷава”
  • Tamil: “சாவகம்”
  • Tatar: “Ява”
  • Telugu: “జావా దీవి”
  • Telugu: “జావా”
  • Thai: “เกาะชวา”
  • Tibetan: “ཇ་ཝ།”
  • Turkish: “Cava Adası”
  • Turkish: “Cava”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Ява”
  • Ukrainian: “Ява”
  • Urdu: “جاوا”
  • Uzbek: “Java”
  • Uzbek: “Yava”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Java”
  • Vietnamese: “Java”
  • Volapük: “Yafeän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Java”
  • Welsh: “Jawa”
  • Western Frisian: “Java”
  • Western Mari: “Ява”
  • Western Panjabi: “جاوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “爪哇岛”
  • Yakut: “Ява”
  • Yue Chinese: “爪哇”
  • “ID-JW”
  • “ma Sawa”
  • “ma Sowa”
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

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