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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Nayas” and “Nias Island”
Nias
- Category: landform
- Location: North Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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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: “Eiland Nias”
- Dutch: “Nias”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نياس”
- Esperanto: “Niaso”
- Estonian: “Nias”
- Finnish: “Nias”
- French: “Île de Nias”
- French: “Nias”
- Galician: “Nias”
- German: “Nias”
- Greek: “Νίας”
- Hebrew: “ניאס”
- Hindi: “नियास”
- Indonesian: “Nias”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Nias”
- Italian: “Isola di 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”
- Malayalam: “നിയാസ്”
- Minangkabau: “Pulau Nieh”
- Nias: “Tanö Niha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nias”
- Norwegian: “Nias”
- Pampanga: “Nias”
- Persian: “نیاس”
- Polish: “Nias”
- Portuguese: “Nias”
- Russian: “Ниас”
- Spanish: “Islas Nias”
- Spanish: “Islas Nías”
- Spanish: “Nias”
- Spanish: “Nías”
- Swahili: “Nias”
- Swedish: “Nias, Indonesien”
- Swedish: “Nias”
- Tamil: “நியாசு”
- Tamil: “நியாஸுத் தீவு”
- Tamil: “நியாஸ் தீவு”
- Tamil: “நியாஸ்”
- Thai: “เกาะนียัซ”
- Ukrainian: “Ніас”
- Vietnamese: “Nias Island”
- Vietnamese: “Nias”
- Western Frisian: “Nias”
- “Nias”
- “Niasa”
- “Niaso”
- “Nieh”
- “Pulau Nias”
- “Tanö Niha”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Nias”. Photo: Hendypernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.