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West Nusa Tenggara

Mount Tambora

Mount Tambora is an active volcano located on the island of in West Nusa Tenggara, . It is classed as a supervolcano, among the most powerful on Earth.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,851 metres
  • Description: stratovolcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Tambora”, “Tambora Volcano”, and “Tamboro”
  • Historically known as: “Tambora Peak”
Photo: Tisquesusa, CC BY 4.0.

Mount Tambora

Latitude
-8.2479° or 8° 14′ 53″ south
Longitude
117.9951° or 117° 59′ 43″ east
Elevation
2,851 metres (9,354 feet)
Open location code
6P3VQX2W+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3891186330
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
1625272
Wiki­data ID
Q168714
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Tambora” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tambora”
  • Arabic: “جبل تامبورا”
  • Asturian: “Tambora”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tambora”
  • Balinese: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Banjar: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Basque: “Tambora”
  • Basque: “Tanbora”
  • Batak Toba: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Belarusian: “Вулкан Тамбара”
  • Belarusian: “Тамбора”
  • Bengali: “তামবোরা পর্বত”
  • Betawi: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Breton: “Menez Tambora”
  • Breton: “Tambora”
  • Bulgarian: “Тамбора”
  • Catalan: “Mont Tambora”
  • Catalan: “Tambora”
  • Catalan: “Volcà tambora”
  • Cebuano: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Chinese: “Tambora Soaⁿ”
  • Chinese: “坦博拉火山”
  • Croatian: “Tambora”
  • Czech: “Tambora”
  • Danish: “Tambora”
  • Dutch: “Tambora”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل تامبورا”
  • Esperanto: “Tambora”
  • Estonian: “Tambora vulkaan”
  • Estonian: “Tambora”
  • Finnish: “Mount Tambora”
  • Finnish: “Tambora”
  • Finnish: “Tamboran purkaus”
  • French: “Tambora”
  • French: “Tombora”
  • French: “Tomboro”
  • Galician: “Monte Tambora”
  • Georgian: “ტამბორა”
  • German: “Mount Tambora”
  • German: “Tambora”
  • German: “Tembro”
  • German: “Tomboro”
  • Gorontalo: “Hu’idu Tambora”
  • Greek: “Ταμπόρα”
  • Hebrew: “הר טמבורה”
  • Hebrew: “טמבורה”
  • Hindi: “टैम्बोरा”
  • Hungarian: “Tambora”
  • Icelandic: “Tambora”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Indonesian: “Tambora”
  • Italian: “Tambora”
  • Japanese: “タンボラ”
  • Japanese: “タンボラ山”
  • Japanese: “タンボラ火山”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Kazakh: “Тамбора”
  • Korean: “탐보라 화산”
  • Korean: “탐보라산”
  • Latvian: “Tambora”
  • Latvian: “Tamboras kalns”
  • Latvian: “Tamboras vulkāns”
  • Latvian: “Tomboro”
  • Lithuanian: “Tambora”
  • Lithuanian: “Tamboras”
  • Low German: “Tambora”
  • Macedonian: “Tамбора”
  • Macedonian: “Тамбора”
  • Malay: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Malay: “ݢونوڠ تمبورا”
  • Malayalam: “Mount Tambora”
  • Malayalam: “തംബോറ പർവ്വതം”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tambora Soaⁿ”
  • Minangkabau: “Gunuang Tambora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tambora”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tambora”
  • Norwegian: “Tambora”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tambora”
  • Persian: “کوه آتشفشان تامبورا”
  • Persian: “کوه تامبورا”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ تامبورا”
  • Polish: “Tambora”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Tambora”
  • Portuguese: “Tambora”
  • Portuguese: “Vulcão Tambora”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Tambora”
  • Russian: “Тамбора”
  • Russian: “Темборо”
  • Serbian: “Tambora”
  • Serbian: “Тамбора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tambora”
  • Slovak: “Tambora”
  • Slovenian: “Tambora”
  • Spanish: “Monte Tambora”
  • Spanish: “Tambora”
  • Spanish: “Volcan Tambora”
  • Spanish: “Volcán Tambora”
  • Sundanese: “Gunung Tambora”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Tambora”
  • Swedish: “Tambora”
  • Tamil: “தம்போரா எரிமலை”
  • Thai: “เขาตัมโบรา”
  • Thai: “เขาตัมโบโร”
  • Turkish: “Tambora Dağı”
  • Turkish: “Tambora”
  • Turkish: “Tamboro”
  • Ukrainian: “Тамбора”
  • Venetian: “Tambora”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Tambora”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Tambora”
  • Welsh: “Tambora”
  • Western Frisian: “Tambora”
  • Wu Chinese: “坦博拉火山”
  • Yue Chinese: “坦博拉火山”
  • “Panhuehuetl”

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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 Tambora”. Photo: Georesearch Volcanedo BLN, CC BY-SA 4.0.