Sumbawa Besar
Sumbawa Besar is a town on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, and is the second-biggest settlement on the island after Bima. It is the administrative capital of the Sumbawa Regency within the province of West Nusa Tenggara, and has a population of 56,337 inhabitants as of the 2010 census and 62,753 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2024 was 64,936.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 62,800 residents
- Description: place in Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Soembawa”, “Soembawa-besar”, and “Sumbawa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brangbiji Airport.
Brangbiji Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin Airport, formerly Brang Bidji Airport, is located in Sumbawa Besar, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. It is one of the only two airports in the island of Sumbawa, the other being Sultan Muhammad Salahudin Airport in Bima.
Sumbawa Besar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sumbawa Regency, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.4899° or 8° 29′ 24″ southLongitude
117.4196° or 117° 25′ 11″ eastPopulation
62,800Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)IATA airport code
SWQUnited Nations Location Code
ID SWQOpen location code
6P3VGC69+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 5682982501OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1626185Wikidata ID
Q6271142
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sumbawa Besar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سمباوا بيسار”
- Bengali: “সুম্বাওয়া বেসার”
- Bengali: “সোম্বাওয়া বেসার”
- Cebuano: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Chinese: “三巴望博沙”
- Chinese: “大松巴哇”
- Chinese: “大鬆巴哇”
- Danish: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Dutch: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سمباوا بيسار”
- Finnish: “Sumbawa Besar”
- German: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Greek: “Σουμπάγα Μπεσάρ”
- Gujarati: “સુમ્બવા બેસર”
- Hindi: “सुम्बावा बेसर”
- Indonesian: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Italian: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Japanese: “スンバワ・ブサール”
- Japanese: “スンバワ・ベサル”
- Japanese: “スンバワベサール”
- Kannada: “ಸುಂಬವಾ ಬೆಸರ್”
- Korean: “숨바와 바르탓”
- Latvian: “Sumbava Besara”
- Lithuanian: “Sumbava Besaras”
- Malagasy: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Malay: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Marathi: “सुंबावा बेसार”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Polish: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Romanian: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Russian: “Сумбава-Бесар”
- Sinhala: “සුම්බාවා බෙසාර්”
- Slovenian: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Swedish: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Tamil: “சும்பவா பெசார்”
- Telugu: “సుంబావా బెసార్”
- Thai: “ซัมบาวา เบซาร์”
- Turkish: “Sumbawa Besar”
- Ukrainian: “Сумбава-Бесар”
- Urdu: “سومباوا بسیار”
- Vietnamese: “Sumbawa Besar”
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