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Riau Islands

The Riau Islands is a province of Indonesia consisting of a group of islands located in the western part of the country. It was established in 2002 after being separated from the neighboring Province.
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is the main town on the island of , and the capital of Riau Islands province. The town has an instantly likeable 'feel' despite being somewhat of a culture shock after squeaky clean Singapore.

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The Archipelago is a collection of over 230 Indonesian islands in the South China Sea, about 150 km east of Tioman. It was home to a little over 47,000 people in 2020.

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The are an archipelago of 272 islands, forming the Natuna Regency of 's Riau Islands province. The islands are in the South China Sea, about halfway between Peninsular Malaysia's and the island of .

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Island or Negeri Segantang Lada is an island in the Riau archipelago of . It is part of the Riau Islands province, the capital of which, Tanjung Pinang, lies in the island's south and is the island's main community.

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is a small but busy island in the Riau Islands in that is 45 km by 25 km, and has nearly a million people, hundreds of factories owned by multinationals, towns, shopping centres.

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The form the southernmost part of the Riau Islands. The main islands are Lingga and Singkep.

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is a regency covering a group of islands in the Riau Islands province of . Nearly all the population is concentrated on the main island of Besar, also written Karimunbesar.

is an island in the Riau Islands province of , situated to the east of island.

Riau Islands

Latitude of center
-0.1548° or 0° 9′ 17″ south
Longitude of center
104.5804° or 104° 34′ 49″ east
Population
2,120,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1898333938
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1996551
Wiki­data ID
Q2223
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Riau Islands” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Riau”
  • Arabic: “جزر رياو”
  • Asturian: “Islles Riau”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de les Islles Riau”
  • Balinese: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Basque: “Riau uharteak”
  • Basque: “Riau uhartedi”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Batak Toba: “Hapuloan Riau”
  • Batak Toba: “Pulo Riau”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Рыау”
  • Bengali: “রিয়াউ দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Betawi: “Rio Kepuloan”
  • Bulgarian: “Острови Риау”
  • Catalan: “illes Riau”
  • Catalan: “Illes Riau”
  • Cebuano: “Provinsi Kepulauan Riau”
  • Chinese: “Riau Kûn-tó Séng”
  • Chinese: “廖內羣島省”
  • Chinese: “廖內群島省”
  • Chinese: “廖内群岛省”
  • Czech: “Ostrovy Riau”
  • Danish: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Dutch: “Riau-archipel”
  • Dutch: “Riau-eilanden”
  • Dutch: “Riouwarchipel”
  • Esperanto: “Riau-insuloj”
  • Esperanto: “Riaŭ-Insuloj”
  • Extremaduran: “Archipiélagu de Riau”
  • Finnish: “Riausaaret”
  • French: “Îles Riau”
  • Georgian: “რიაუს კუნძულების პროვინცია”
  • German: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • German: “Provinz der Riauinseln”
  • German: “Riau-Inseln”
  • Gorontalo: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Ριάου”
  • Gujarati: “કેપુલઉઆન રીઉ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Riau Khiùn-tó”
  • Hebrew: “איי ריאו”
  • Hindi: “केपुलवान रियाउ”
  • Hindi: “रियाउ द्वीपसमूह प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “रियाउ द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Riau-szigetek”
  • Iloko: “Is-isla Riau”
  • Indonesian: “Kep. Riau”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Indonesian: “Prov. Kep. Riau”
  • Indonesian: “Prov. Kepulauan Riau”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kepulauan Riau”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Riau”
  • Italian: “Isole Riau”
  • Japanese: “リアウ群島州”
  • Japanese: “リアウ諸島州”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Riau”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆಪುಲೌನ್ ರಿಯು”
  • Komering: “Kapulawan Riau”
  • Komering: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Korean: “리아우 제도주”
  • Korean: “리아우제도주”
  • Lao: “ຫມູ່ເກາະຣຽວ”
  • Latvian: “Riau salas”
  • Latvian: “Riau Salas”
  • Lithuanian: “Riau salos”
  • Madurese: “Kapoloan Riau”
  • Madurese: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Malay: “کڤولاوان رياو”
  • Malayalam: “റിയാവു ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Marathi: “रियाउ द्वीपसमूह”
  • Mazanderani: “ریائو جزیره‌ئون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Riau Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Riau Kûn-tó Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Riau”
  • Minangkabau: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Mongolian: “Риау арлуудын муж”
  • Nias: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Northern Luri: “میناوه یا ریائو”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Riau-øyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riau-øyane”
  • Norwegian: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Ossetian: “Кепулауан-Риау”
  • Pampanga: “Riau Islands”
  • Persian: “جزایر ریائو”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Riau”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Riau”
  • Russian: “Кепулауан-Риау”
  • Russian: “Острова Риау”
  • Scots: “Riau Islands”
  • Serbian: “Острва Ријау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otoci Riau”
  • Sinhala: “කෙපුලඋආන් රියවූ”
  • Sinhala: “රියාවු දූපත් පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
  • Slovak: “Riauské ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Otoki Riau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ریائو آدالاری”
  • Spanish: “Islas Riau”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de las Islas Riau”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Riau”
  • Swedish: “Kepulauan Riau”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kapuluan ng Riau”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kapuluang Riau”
  • Tamil: “இரியாவு தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “கெப்புலவன் ரிஆ”
  • Tamil: “ரியாவு தீவுகள் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “ரியாவு தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Кепулауан-Риау”
  • Tatar: “Риау утраулары”
  • Telugu: “కాేపులావన్ రియావు”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะรีเยา”
  • Turkish: “Riau Adaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Ріау”
  • Urdu: “ریاو جزائر صوبہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Riau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Riau”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Riau”
  • Western Armenian: “Ռիաու Կղզիներ”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبا ریاؤ جزیرے”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ریاؤ جزیرے”
  • Wu Chinese: “廖内群岛省”
  • Yue Chinese: “廖內群島省”
  • “Kepulauan Riau”
  • “Prov. Kepulauan Riau”

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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 Wikipedia page “Riau Islands”. Photo: shalom adamina, CC BY-SA 2.0.