Maluku
The Maluku Islands, also known as the Moluccas or the Spice Islands, are a region of Indonesia lying between Sulawesi and Papua. They are divided into North Maluku Province and Maluku Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ambon and Buru Island.
Ambon
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Ambon is an island in the Maluku region of Indonesia and also the name of its largest city: Ambon City. The island consists of two regions: Ambon City and Central Maluku Regency.
Buru Island
Buru is an island in Maluku. It is known for the cajeput tree plantation and also has become the national rice granary in Maluku.
Ternate
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Ternate, also known as the City of Ternate, is the city with the largest population in the province of North Maluku and an island in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia.
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Banda Islands
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The Banda Islands are a volcanic group of ten small islands in the Banda Sea, about 140 km south of Seram Island and about 2,000 km east of Java, and constitute an administrative district within the Central Maluku Regency in the Indonesian province of Maluku.
Tidore
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Tidore is one of the Maluku islands. Tidore is in many ways similar to Ternate; the islands are about equally big, are both volcanoes rising up from the sea, were the once only places where cloves grew, and sultanates on their own.
Morotai Island
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Morotai Island Regency is a regency of North Maluku province, Indonesia, located on Morotai island. It covers an area of 2,336.6 km, including Rao Island which lies to the west of Morotai and forms an administrative district within the regency.
Kei Islands
Kei Islands are in Maluku province, Indonesia. Islands in the group include Kei Besar Island, Kei Kecil Island, Kei Tanimbar Island.
Saparua
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Saparua is one of the Lease Islands in the Maluku archipelago in Indonesia. Saparua is a popular getaway from nearby Ambon. pleasant beaches, coral reefs and historic Dutch fort all the time.
Tobelo
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Tobelo is the capital of the North Halmahera district in the Maluku islands of Indonesia. It is also the second largest town in the province of the North Maluku after the provincial capital, Ternate.
Masohi
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Masohi is a town of 38,000 people on the shores of Elpaputih Bay on the south of Seram Island in Maluku. It is a gateway to Manusela National Park and Mount Binaya, the highest mountain in Maluku.
Maluku
- Type: Island with 1,900,000 residents
- Description: archipelago in eastern Indonesia, also called the Spice Islands
- Also known as: “Ilhas Molucas”, “Islas Molucas”, “Maluku Archipelago”, “Maluku Islands”, “Malukus”, “Molucca Archipelago”, “Molucca Islands”, “Moluccas”, “Molucche”, “Molukken”, “Moluksche Archipel”, “Spice Islands”, and “Spiceries”
- Category: island group
- Location: North Malaku Province, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Maluku” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Maluku”
- Afrikaans: “Molukke”
- Arabic: “جزر الملوك”
- Armenian: “Մոլուքյան կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Islles Moluques”
- Balinese: “Kapuloan Maluku”
- Bashkir: “Молукка утрауҙары”
- Basque: “Molukak”
- Batak Mandailing: “Kapuloan Maluku”
- Belarusian: “Малукскія астравы”
- Belarusian: “Малуцкія астравы”
- Bengali: “মালুকু দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bengali: “মালুকু”
- Bosnian: “Molučka ostrva”
- Breton: “Inizi Maluku”
- Bulgarian: “Молукски острови”
- Catalan: “Moluques”
- Cebuano: “Molucas”
- Cebuano: “Moluccas”
- Central Bikol: “Kaiislahang Maluku”
- Chinese: “Maluku Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “摩鹿加群岛”
- Chinese: “摩鹿加群島”
- Chinese: “美洛居”
- Chinese: “马鲁古群岛”
- Croatian: “Molučki otoci”
- Czech: “Moluky”
- Danish: “Krydderiøerne”
- Danish: “Molukkerne”
- Dutch: “Molukken”
- Dutch: “Moluksche Archipel”
- Esperanto: “Molukoj”
- Estonian: “Maluku saared”
- Fiji Hindi: “Maluku Islands”
- Finnish: “Maluku”
- Finnish: “Maustesaaret”
- Finnish: “Molukit”
- French: “Maluku”
- French: “Moluques”
- Galician: “Molucas”
- Georgian: “მოლუკის კუნძულები”
- German: “Molukken”
- Gorontalo: “Kepulauan Maluku”
- Greek: “Μολούκες”
- Hakka Chinese: “Maluku Khiùn-tó”
- Hebrew: “איי מאלוקו”
- Hindi: “मालुकू द्वीपसमूह”
- Hungarian: “Maluku-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “Mólúkkaeyjar”
- Iloko: “Is-isla Maluku”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Maluku”
- Indonesian: “Maluku”
- Irish: “Na Molacaí”
- Italian: “Molucche”
- Japanese: “モルッカ諸島”
- Javanese: “Kapuloan Maluku”
- Javanese: “Maluku”
- Kazakh: “Молукка аралдары”
- Kirghiz: “Молукка аралдары”
- Korean: “말루쿠 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Moluccae”
- Latvian: “Moluku salas”
- Literary Chinese: “美洛居”
- Lithuanian: “Molukų salos”
- Lombard: “Maluku”
- Low German: “Molukken”
- Macedonian: “Зачински Острови”
- Macedonian: “Молуци”
- Macedonian: “Молучки Острови”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Maluku”
- Malayalam: “മലുകു ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Mazanderani: “ملوک جزیرهئون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Maluku Kûn-tó”
- Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Maluku”
- Mingrelian: “მალუკუშ კოკეფი”
- Mingrelian: “მოლუკიშ კოკეფი”
- Northern Frisian: “Molukken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kepulauan Maluku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krydderøyene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Molukkene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Molukkane”
- Norwegian: “Molukkene”
- Novial: “Isles Malukus (Moluccas)”
- Novial: “Isles Malukus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Molucas”
- Pampanga: “Maluku Islands”
- Persian: “جزایر ملوک”
- Piemontese: “Moluche”
- Polish: “Moluki”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Molucas”
- Romanian: “Insulele Moluce”
- Russian: “Молуккские острова”
- Russian: “Пряные острова”
- Samoan: “Maluku Islands”
- Scots: “Maluku Islands”
- Serbian: “Молучка острва”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Maluku otoci”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Maluku Otoci”
- Sicilian: “Molucche”
- Slovak: “Moluky”
- Slovenian: “Dišavni otoki”
- Slovenian: “Moluki”
- South Azerbaijani: “مالوکو آدالاری”
- Spanish: “Islas Molucas”
- Sundanese: “Kapuloan Maluku”
- Sundanese: “Maluku”
- Swahili: “Visiwa vya Maluku”
- Swedish: “Kryddöarna”
- Swedish: “Moluckerna”
- Tagalog: “Kapuluang Maluku”
- Tajik: “Молукка”
- Tamil: “மலுக்கு தீவுகள்”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะมาลูกู”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะโมลุกกะ”
- Turkish: “Maluku Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Молуккські острови”
- Urdu: “جزائر ملوک”
- Uzbek: “Molukka orollari”
- Uzbek: “Molukka Orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Maluku”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Maluku”
- Welsh: “Maluku”
- Western Frisian: “Molukken”
- Western Mari: “Малуку ошмаотывлӓ”
- Western Panjabi: “مالوکو جزیرے”
- Western Panjabi: “ملوکو جزیرے”
- Wu Chinese: “摩鹿加群島”
- Yue Chinese: “摩鹿加群島”
- “Kepulauan Maluku”
- “Malucca”
- “Molucas”
- “Moluccas”
- “Molucche”
- “Moluksche”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Maluku”. Photo: Fabio Achilli, CC BY 2.0.