Sumba
Sumba is an island in the eastern half of Nusa Tenggara, south of Flores — and not be confused with Sumbawa to the west.
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Sumba
- Type: Island with 686,000 residents
- Description: island in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Sandalwood”, “Sandelhout”, “Sandelhout Eiland”, “Sumba Island”, “Tjendana”, “पुलाउ सुम्बा”, “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്”, “പലാവ സുമ്പ”, “സുംബ”, and “鬆巴島”
- Location: East Nusa Tenggara, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-9.6982° or 9° 41′ 54″ south
Longitude of center
119.9659° or 119° 57′ 57″ east
Population
686,000
Elevation
604 metres (1,982 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Sumba” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Soemba”
- Arabic: “جزيرة سومبا”
- Asturian: “Sumba”
- Azerbaijani: “Sumba”
- Basque: “Sumba”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сумба”
- Belarusian: “Сумба”
- Breton: “Sumba”
- Bulgarian: “Сумба”
- Catalan: “Sumba”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Sumba”
- Chinese: “松巴岛”
- Chinese: “松巴島”
- Croatian: “Sumba”
- Czech: “Sumba”
- Danish: “Sumba”
- Dutch: “Sumba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره سومبا”
- Esperanto: “Sumbo”
- Estonian: “Sumba”
- Finnish: “Sumba”
- French: “Sumba”
- Galician: “Sumba”
- Georgian: “სუმბა”
- German: “Sumba”
- Greek: “Σούμπα”
- Hebrew: “סומבה (אינדונזיה)”
- Hindi: “सुम्बा”
- Hungarian: “Sumba”
- Iloko: “Sumba”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sumba”
- Italian: “isola Sumba”
- Italian: “Isola Sumba”
- Italian: “Sumba”
- Japanese: “スンバ島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Sumba”
- Javanese: “Sumba”
- Korean: “숨바섬”
- Latvian: “Sumba”
- Lithuanian: “Sumba”
- Malay: “Sumba”
- Malayalam: “സുമ്പ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sumba”
- Norwegian: “Sumba”
- Persian: “سومبا”
- Polish: “Sumba”
- Portuguese: “Sumba”
- Russian: “Сумба”
- Scots: “Sumba”
- Serbian: “Sumba”
- Serbian: “Сумба”
- Slovenian: “Sumba”
- Spanish: “Sumba”
- Swahili: “Sumba”
- Swedish: “Sumba”
- Tamil: “சும்பா தீவுகள்”
- Thai: “เกาะซุมบา”
- Turkish: “Sumba”
- Ukrainian: “Сумба”
- Urdu: “سومبا”
- Vietnamese: “Sumba”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sumba”
- Welsh: “Sumba”
- Western Mari: “Сумба”
- Wu Chinese: “松巴岛”
- “Pulau Sumba”
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