Riau
Riau is an oil-rich province on the east coast of Sumatra. In 2004, the eastern islands of the province near Singapore were carved off into the new province of Riau Islands, covered separately.
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Riau
- Type: State with 6,490,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra
- Also known as: “Daerah Swatantra Tingkat I Riau”, “Daerah Tingkat I Riau”, “Propinsi Riau”, “Prov. Riau”, “Provinz Riau”, “Riau Province”, “Riauw”, “Riouw”, “Siak Sri indrapura”, “Tỉnh Riau”, “रियाउ प्रांत”, “ரிஆ மாகாணம்”, “రియాయూ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, and “リアウ”
- Neighbors: Jambi, Malaysia, North Sumatra, Riau Islands, and West Sumatra
- Categories: province of Indonesia, first-level administrative country subdivision in Indonesia, and locality
- Location: Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
0.5004° or 0° 30′ 2″ north
Longitude of center
101.5476° or 101° 32′ 51″ east
Population
6,490,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Riau” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Riau”
- Amharic: “ሪያው”
- Arabic: “رياو”
- Azerbaijani: “Riau”
- Balinese: “Riau”
- Banjar: “Riau”
- Basque: “Riau”
- Batak Mandailing: “Riau”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Рыау”
- Belarusian: “Рыау”
- Bengali: “রিয়াউ”
- Betawi: “Rio”
- Bulgarian: “Риау”
- Catalan: “Riau”
- Cebuano: “Provinsi Riau”
- Chinese: “廖內省”
- Chinese: “廖内省”
- Czech: “Riau”
- Danish: “Riau”
- Dutch: “Riau”
- Dzongkha: “རི་འའུ་ ས་གནས།”
- Esperanto: “Riauo”
- Esperanto: “Riaŭo”
- Extremaduran: “Riau”
- Finnish: “Riau”
- French: “Riau”
- Georgian: “რიაუ”
- German: “Riau”
- Gorontalo: “Riau”
- Greek: “Ριάου”
- Gujarati: “રિયાઉ પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Riau”
- Hausa: “Riau”
- Hebrew: “ריאו”
- Hindi: “रियाउ”
- Hungarian: “Riau”
- Iloko: “Riau”
- Indonesian: “Riau”
- Irish: “Riau”
- Italian: “Riau”
- Japanese: “リアウ州”
- Javanese: “Riau”
- Kannada: “ರಿಯು ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Риау”
- Kirghiz: “Риау”
- Komering: “Riau”
- Korean: “리아우주”
- Latvian: “Riau province”
- Latvian: “Riau”
- Lithuanian: “Riau”
- Madurese: “Riau”
- Malay: “Riau”
- Malay: “رياو”
- Malayalam: “റിയാവു”
- Marathi: “रियाउ”
- Mazanderani: “ریائو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Riau”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Riau Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Riau”
- Mongolian: “Риау”
- Northern Frisian: “Riau”
- Northern Luri: “ریائو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riau”
- Norwegian: “Riau”
- Oromo: “Riyo”
- Ossetian: “Риау”
- Pampanga: “Riau”
- Panjabi: “ਰਿਆਉ”
- Persian: “ریائو”
- Persian: “ریاو”
- Polish: “Riau”
- Portuguese: “Riau”
- Pushto: “ریاو”
- Russian: “Риау”
- Serbian: “Ријау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Riau”
- Sinhala: “රියාවු පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Sinhala: “රියෞ පළාත”
- Slovak: “Riau”
- Slovenian: “Riau”
- Somali: “Riyo”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریائو”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Riau”
- Spanish: “Riau”
- Sundanese: “Riau”
- Swahili: “Riau”
- Swedish: “Riau”
- Tagalog: “Riau”
- Tajik: “Риау”
- Tamil: “இந்தோனேசியாவில் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “ரியாவு”
- Tatar: “Риау”
- Telugu: “రియాయూ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดรีเยา”
- Turkish: “Riau”
- Ukrainian: “Ріау”
- Urdu: “ریاو”
- Uzbek: “Riau”
- Vietnamese: “Riau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Riau”
- Welsh: “Riau”
- Western Armenian: “Ռիաու”
- Western Panjabi: “ریاؤ”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ریاؤ”
- Wu Chinese: “廖内省”
- Yue Chinese: “廖內”
- “ma Lijo suli”
- “Riau”
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