Mount Sinabung

Mount Sinabung is North Sumatra's 4th most active volcano. The long eruption of Mount Sinabung is similar to that of Mount Unzen in Japan, which erupted for five years after lying dormant for 400 years.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,451 metres
  • Description: Active volcano in North Sumatra, Indonesia
  • Also known as: Deleng Sinabun”, “Dolok Sinaboen”, “Dolok Sinaboeng”, “Dolok Sinabun”, “Gunung Jinabung”, “Gunung Sinabun”, “Sinabuna”, and “Sinabung Mount

Mount Sinabung

Latitude
3.171° or 3° 10′ 15″ north
Longitude
98.392° or 98° 23′ 31″ east
Elevation
2,451 metres (8,041 feet)
Open location code
6MMW59CR+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1070172279
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
1213718
Wiki­data ID
Q207678
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Mount Sinabung” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Sinabung
  • Arabic: جبل سينابونغ
  • Arabic: سينابونغ
  • Armenian: Սինաբունգ (հրաբուխ)
  • Armenian: Սինաբունգ
  • Balinese: Gunung Sinabung
  • Batak Toba: Dolok Sinabung
  • Belarusian: Вулкан Сінабунг
  • Belarusian: Сінабунг
  • Bengali: সিনাবাং পাহাড়
  • Burmese: ဆီနာဘန်းမီးတောင်
  • Catalan: Mont Sinabung
  • Catalan: Sinabung
  • Cebuano: Gunung Sinabung
  • Chinese: 錫納朋火山
  • Chinese: 锡纳朋火山
  • Czech: Sinabung
  • Danish: Sinabung
  • Dutch: Sinabung
  • Egyptian Arabic: جبل سينابونج
  • Estonian: Gunung Sinabung
  • Estonian: Sinabung
  • Estonian: Sinabungi mägi
  • Estonian: Sinabungi vulkaan
  • Finnish: Sinabung
  • French: Gunung Sinabung
  • French: Sinabung
  • Georgian: სინაბუნგი
  • German: Gunung Sinabung
  • German: Sinabung
  • Greek: Σιναμπούνγκ
  • Hebrew: סינאבונג
  • Hebrew: סינבונג
  • Hindi: सिनाबंग पर्वत
  • Indonesian: Gunung Sinabung
  • Indonesian: Sinabung
  • Italian: Monte Sinabung
  • Italian: Sinabung
  • Japanese: シナブング山
  • Japanese: シナブン山
  • Javanese: Gunung Sinabung
  • Komering: Gunung Sinabung
  • Korean: 시나붕산
  • Ladin: Mont Sinabung
  • Lithuanian: Sinabungas
  • Malay: Gunung Sinabung
  • Minangkabau: Gunuang Sinabung
  • Nias: Hili Sinabung
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sinabung-vulkanen
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sinabung
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sinabungvulkanen
  • Norwegian: Sinabung
  • Persian: کوه سینابونگ
  • Persian: کوهٔ سینابونگ
  • Polish: Sinabung
  • Portuguese: Monte Sinabung
  • Portuguese: Sinabung
  • Russian: Синабун
  • Russian: Синабунг
  • Serbian: Sinabung
  • Serbian: Синабунг
  • Slovak: Sinabung
  • Spanish: Monte Sinabung
  • Spanish: Sinabung
  • Spanish: Volcan sinabung
  • Spanish: Volcán Sinabung
  • Swedish: Gunung Sinabung
  • Tamil: சினாபுங் மலை
  • Tamil: சினாபுங்
  • Thai: เขาซีนาบุง
  • Ukrainian: Синабунг
  • Venetian: Monte Sinabung
  • Vietnamese: Núi Sinabung
  • Vietnamese: Sinabung

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Mount Sinabung”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.