Maluku
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Maluku
- Island with about 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”“Spiceries”
- Category: island group
- Location
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Latitude of center
-1.5763° or 1° 34′ 35″ south
Longitude of center
127.7174° or 127° 43′ 3″ east
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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”
- Azerbaijani: “Maluku adaları”
- 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: “Kaiislahan Maluku”
- Central Bikol: “Kaiislahang Maluku”
- Chinese: “摩鹿加群岛”
- 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: “マルク諸島”
- Japanese: “モルッカ諸島”
- Javanese: “Kapuloan Maluku”
- Javanese: “Kepulauan 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”
- Malagasy: “Moluka”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Yakut: “Малуку арыылара”
- Yue Chinese: “摩鹿加群島”
- “Malucca”
- “Moluksche”
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