Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora is an active volcano located on the island of Sumbawa in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. It is classed as a supervolcano, among the most powerful on Earth.
- Volcano rising to 2,851 metres (9,354 feet)
- …was formerly known as “Tambora Peak”
- Description: stratovolcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia
- Also known as“Tambora”“Tambora Volcano”“Tamboro”
Mount Tambora
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Latitude
-8.2479° or 8° 14′ 53″ south
Longitude
117.9951° or 117° 59′ 43″ east
Open location code
6P3VQX2W+R3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural = volcano
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Tambora” goes by many names.
TamboraAfrikaans
جبل تامبوراArabic
TamboraAsturian
TamboraAzerbaijani
Gunung TamboraBalinese
Gunung TamboraBanjar
TamboraBasque
TanboraBasque
Gunung TamboraBatak Toba
ТамбораBelarusian
তামবোরা পর্বতBengali
Gunung TamboraBetawi
Menez TamboraBreton
TamboraBreton
ТамбораBulgarian
Mont TamboraCatalan
TamboraCatalan
Volcà tamboraCatalan
Gunung TamboraCebuano
坦博拉火山Chinese
TamboraCroatian
TamboraCzech
TamboraDanish
TamboraDutch
جبل تامبوراEgyptian Arabic
TamboraEsperanto
TamboraEstonian
Tambora vulkaanEstonian
Mount TamboraFinnish
TamboraFinnish
Tamboran purkausFinnish
Monte TamboraGalician
ტამბორაGeorgian
Hu’idu TamboraGorontalo
ΤαμπόραGreek
הר טמבורהHebrew
טמבורהHebrew
टैम्बोराHindi
TamboraHungarian
TamboraIcelandic
Gunung TamboraIndonesian
TomboroIndonesian
TamboraItalian
タンボラJapanese
タンボラ山Japanese
タンボラ火山Japanese
Gunung TamboraJavanese
ТамбораKazakh
탐보라 화산Korean
탐보라산Korean
TamboraLatvian
Tamboras kalnsLatvian
Tamboras vulkānsLatvian
TomboroLatvian
TamboraLithuanian
TamborasLithuanian
TamboraLow German
TамбораMacedonian
ТамбораMacedonian
Gunung TamboraMalay
ݢونوڠ تمبوراMalay
Mount TamboraMalayalam
തംബോറ പർവ്വതംMalayalam
Tambora SoaⁿMin Nan Chinese
Gunuang TamboraMinangkabau
TamboraNorwegian
TamboraNorwegian Bokmål
TamboraNorwegian Nynorsk
TamboraOccitan (post 1500)
کوه آتشفشان تامبوراPersian
کوهٔ تامبوراPersian
TamboraPolish
Muntele TamboraRomanian
TamboraRomanian
ТамбораRussian
ТембороRussian
TamboraSerbian
ТамбораSerbian
TamboraSerbo-Croatian
TamboraSlovak
TamboraSlovenian
Gunung TamboraSundanese
Mlima TamboraSwahili
TamboraSwedish
தம்போரா எரிமலைTamil
เขาตัมโบราThai
เขาตัมโบโรThai
TamboraTurkish
Tambora DağıTurkish
TamboroTurkish
ТамбораUkrainian
TamboraVenetian
Núi TamboraVietnamese
Mynydd TamboraWelsh
TamboraWelsh
TamboraWestern Frisian
坦博拉火山Wu Chinese
坦博拉火山Yue Chinese
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