Sumba
Sumba is an island in the eastern half of Nusa Tenggara, south of Flores — and not be confused with Sumbawa to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Waingapu and Waikabubak.
Waingapu
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Waingapu is the largest town of the island of Sumba in the Nusa Tenggara region of Indonesia.
Waikabubak
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Waikabubak is a town on the island of Sumba, in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia, and is the capital of the West Sumba Regency. Initially a part of the Kupang Regency, Waikabubak was made capital of South West Sumba in 1913.
Tambolaka
Tambolaka is the administrative capital of the Southwest Sumba Regency on the island of Sumba in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. It serves as a key administrative and economic center for the western part of Sumba, particularly known for its airport which facilitates access to the region.Sumba
- Type: Island with 686,000 residents
- Description: island in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Pulau Sumba”, “Sandalwood”, “Sandelhout Eiland”, “Soemba”, “Sumba Island”, “Tjendana”, and “Сумба”
- Location: East Nusa Tenggara, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Chinese: “鬆巴島”
- Croatian: “Sumba”
- Czech: “Sumba”
- Danish: “Sumba”
- Dutch: “Sandelhout Eiland”
- Dutch: “Soemba”
- Dutch: “Sumba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره سومبا”
- Esperanto: “Sumbo”
- Estonian: “Sumba”
- Finnish: “Sumba”
- French: “Soemba”
- French: “Sumba”
- Galician: “Sumba”
- Georgian: “სუმბა”
- German: “Sumba”
- Greek: “Σούμπα”
- Hebrew: “סומבה (אינדונזיה)”
- Hindi: “पुलाउ सुम्बा”
- Hindi: “सुम्बा”
- Hungarian: “Sumba”
- Iloko: “Sumba”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sumba”
- Indonesian: “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: “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്”
- Malayalam: “പലാവ സുമ്പ”
- Malayalam: “സുംബ”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Sumba”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sumba”
- Welsh: “Sumba”
- Western Mari: “Сумба”
- Wu Chinese: “松巴岛”
- “Pulau Sumba”
- “Sandalwood”
- “Sandelhout”
- “Soemba”
- “Sumba”
- “Tjendana”
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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 “Sumba”. Photo: Sweart1, CC BY-SA 3.0.