Mentawai Islands
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- Type: regency of Indonesia with 87,600 residents
- Description: regency in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Kepulaun Mentawai”, “Mentawai Islands Regency”, and “Mentawei Islands”
Mentawai Islands
- Location: West Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mentawai Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر مينتاواي”
- Asturian: “Islles Mentawai”
- Balinese: “Kabupatén Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Basque: “Mentawai uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Ментавай”
- Belarusian: “Ментавай”
- Bengali: “মেন্টাওয়াই দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Betawi: “Kabupatèn Kepuloan Mentawé”
- Betawi: “Kabupatèn Pulo Mentawé”
- Catalan: “arxipèlag de Mentawai”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag de Mentawai”
- Cebuano: “Kabupaten Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Chinese: “Mentawai Kûn-tó Koān”
- Chinese: “明打威群島”
- Czech: “Mentavajské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Mentawajské ostrovy”
- Danish: “Mentawaiøerne”
- Dutch: “Mentawai-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Mentavajaj Insuloj”
- Estonian: “Mentawai saared”
- Finnish: “Mentawaisaaret”
- French: “Îles Mentawai”
- French: “Îles Mentawaï”
- German: “Mentawai-Inseln”
- Hindi: “मेन्तावाई द्वीप समूह”
- Iban: “Kabupaten Pulau Mentawai”
- Indonesian: “Kab. Kep. Mentawai”
- Indonesian: “Kab. Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Indonesian: “Kab. Mentawai”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Mentawai”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Irish: “Oileáin Mentawai”
- Italian: “Isole Mentawai”
- Japanese: “ムンタワイ諸島”
- Javanese: “Kabupatèn Kapuloan Mentawai”
- Javanese: “Kapuloan Mentawai”
- Komering: “Kabupaten Kapulauan Mentawai”
- Korean: “믄타와이 제도”
- Latvian: “Mentavaju salas”
- Lithuanian: “Mentavajaus salos”
- Malay: “Kabupaten Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Malayalam: “മെന്റവായ് ഐലന്റ്സ് റീജൻസി”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mentawai Kûn-tó Koān”
- Minangkabau: “Kabupaten Kapulauan Mentawai”
- Minangkabau: “Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mentawaiøyene”
- Norwegian: “Mentawaiøyene”
- Polish: “Wyspy Mentawai”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Mentawai”
- Russian: “Ментавай”
- Slovak: “Mentavajské ostrovy”
- Spanish: “Islas Mentawai”
- Swedish: “Kabupaten Kepulauan Mentawai”
- Swedish: “Mentawaiöarna”
- Tamil: “மெந்தாவாய் தீவுகள்”
- Ukrainian: “Ментавайські острови”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Mentawai”
- Wu Chinese: “明打威群島”
- Yue Chinese: “明打威群島”
- “Kepulauan Mentawai”
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