Sumbawa
Sumbawa is one of the 13,000+ islands in the Indonesian archipelago. It is a large island to the east of Bali and Lombok. Sumbawa, along with Lombok, is part of West Nusa Tenggara.
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Sape
Sape is a town and district in Sumbawa in Nusa Tenggara, eastern Indonesia.Sumbawa
- Type: Locality with 1,330,000 residents
- Description: island in West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Île de Sumbawa”, “Ilha de Sumbawa”, “Ilhas Sumbawa”, “Isla de Sumbawa”, “Sumbabwe”, “Sumbawa Island”, “جزيرة سمباوة”, “جزيرة سومباوا”, “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്”, “പുലാഉ സൂമ്പവാ”, “സൂമ്പവാ”, “ซุมบาวา”, “スンバワ県”, and “森巴瓦島”
- Category: island
- Location: West Nusa Tenggara, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-8.767° or 8° 46′ 1″ south
Longitude of center
117.9726° or 117° 58′ 21″ east
Population
1,330,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Sumbawa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Soembawa”
- Arabic: “سمباوة”
- Arabic: “سُمباوة”
- Asturian: “Sumbawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Sumbava”
- Basque: “Sumbawa”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сумбава”
- Belarusian: “Сумбава”
- Breton: “Sumbawa”
- Bulgarian: “Сумбава”
- Catalan: “Sumbawa”
- Cebuano: “Pulau Sumbawa”
- Chinese: “松巴哇岛”
- Chinese: “松巴哇島”
- Croatian: “Sumbawa”
- Czech: “Sumbawa”
- Danish: “Sumbawa”
- Dutch: “Soembawa”
- Dutch: “Sumbawa”
- Esperanto: “Sumbavo”
- Estonian: “Sumbawa”
- Finnish: “Sumbawa”
- French: “Sumbawa”
- Galician: “Sumbawa”
- Georgian: “სუმბავა”
- German: “Sumbawa”
- Greek: “Σούμπαουα”
- Hebrew: “סומבאווה”
- Hindi: “सुम्बावा”
- Hungarian: “Sumbawa”
- Iloko: “Sumbawa”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Sumbawa”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sumbawa”
- Indonesian: “Sumbawa”
- Italian: “Sumbawa”
- Japanese: “スンバワ島”
- Javanese: “Sumbawa”
- Kazakh: “Сумбава”
- Korean: “숨바와섬”
- Latin: “Sumbava”
- Latvian: “Sumbava”
- Lithuanian: “Sumbava”
- Malay: “Pulau Sumbawa”
- Malay: “Sumbawa”
- Malay: “ڤولاو سومباوا”
- Malayalam: “സുമ്പാവ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumbawa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sumbawa”
- Norwegian: “Sumbawa”
- Persian: “سامباوا”
- Polish: “Sumbawa”
- Portuguese: “Sumbava”
- Portuguese: “Sumbawa”
- Russian: “Сумбава”
- Saterfriesisch: “Sumbawa”
- Scots: “Sumbawa”
- Serbian: “Sumbava”
- Serbian: “Сумбава”
- Slovenian: “Sumbava”
- Slovenian: “Sumbawa”
- Spanish: “Sumbawa”
- Swahili: “Sumbawa”
- Swedish: “Sumbawa”
- Tamil: “சும்பாவா”
- Thai: “เกาะซุมบาวา”
- Turkish: “Sumbawa”
- Ukrainian: “Сумбава”
- Urdu: “سومباوا”
- Vietnamese: “Sumbawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sumbawa”
- Welsh: “Sumbawa”
- Western Mari: “Сумбава”
- Wu Chinese: “松巴哇岛”
- “ma Sunpawa”
- “Pulau Sumbawa”
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