Nias
Nias is an island the Indian Ocean off North Sumatra. Isolated yet worldly, the Nias Island chain has been trading since prehistory with other cultures, other islands, and even mainland Asia.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Eiland Nias”, “Île de Nias”, “Islas Nias”, “Islas Nías”, “Isola di Nias”, “Nayas”, “Nias Island”, “Nieh”, “நியாஸுத் தீவு”, “நியாஸ்”, and “നിയാസ്”
Nias
- Category: landform
- Location: North Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
1.1215° or 1° 7′ 17″ north
Longitude
97.6181° or 97° 37′ 5″ east
Population
756,000
Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ID NIA
Open location code
6MHV4JC9+H6
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Satellite Map
Discover Nias from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Western Frisian—“Nias” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Niëh”
- Albanian: “Nias”
- Arabic: “نياس”
- Armenian: “Նիաս”
- Asturian: “Nías”
- Azerbaijani: “Nias adası”
- Balinese: “Nusa Nias”
- Batak Toba: “Pulo Nias”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ніас”
- Belarusian: “Ніас”
- Bengali: “নিয়াস দ্বীপ”
- Bulgarian: “Ниас”
- Catalan: “Nias”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Nias”
- Chinese: “尼亚斯岛”
- Chinese: “尼亞斯島”
- Czech: “Nias”
- Danish: “Nias”
- Dutch: “Nias”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نياس”
- Esperanto: “Niaso”
- Estonian: “Nias”
- Finnish: “Nias”
- French: “Nias”
- Galician: “Nias”
- German: “Nias”
- Greek: “Νίας”
- Hebrew: “ניאס”
- Hindi: “नियास”
- Indonesian: “Nias”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Nias”
- Italian: “Nias”
- Japanese: “ニアス島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Nias”
- Kazakh: “Nïas”
- Kazakh: “Ниас”
- Kazakh: “نىياس”
- Korean: “니아스섬”
- Latvian: “Niasa”
- Lithuanian: “Niasas”
- Macedonian: “Нијас”
- Malay: “Nias”
- Malay: “Pulau Nias”
- Malay: “ڤولاو نياس”
- Minangkabau: “Pulau Nieh”
- Nias: “Tanö Niha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nias”
- Norwegian: “Nias”
- Pampanga: “Nias”
- Persian: “نیاس”
- Polish: “Nias”
- Portuguese: “Nias”
- Russian: “Ниас”
- Spanish: “Nías”
- Swahili: “Nias”
- Swedish: “Nias, Indonesien”
- Swedish: “Nias”
- Tamil: “நியாசு”
- Tamil: “நியாஸ் தீவு”
- Thai: “เกาะนียัซ”
- Ukrainian: “Ніас”
- Urdu: “نیاس”
- Vietnamese: “Nias”
- Western Frisian: “Nias”
- “Pulau Nias”
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