Sumatra
Riau Islands
Bintan

Tanjung Pinang

Tanjung Pinang is the main town on the island of , and the capital of province. The town has an instantly likeable 'feel' despite being somewhat of a culture shock after squeaky clean Singapore.
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  • Type: City with 240,000 residents
  • Description: city in Riau Islands Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Tandjoengpinang”, “Tandjungpinang”, “Tanjung Pinang City”, “Tanjungpinang”, “Tanjungpinang City”, “TPG”, and “廖都”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grand Mosque of the Sultan of Riau.

Mosque
Photo: Masgatotkaca, CC0.
The on Penyengat Island is located outside Tanjung Pinang on Bintan island, . The mosque was built in 1844 and is today one of Tanjung Pinang's most popular attractions for visitors.

Tanjung Pinang

Latitude
0.9083° or 0° 54′ 30″ north
Longitude
104.4446° or 104° 26′ 41″ east
Population
240,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
TNJ
United Nations Location Code
ID TNJ
Open location code
6PG6WC5V+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 503789390
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1624863
Wiki­data ID
Q10104
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Wu Chinese—“Tanjung Pinang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Arabic: “تانجونغ”
  • Arabic: “تانجونقبينانق”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tanjunq Pinanq”
  • Balinese: “Kota Tanjung Pinang”
  • Balinese: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Basque: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Belarusian: “Танджунг-Пінанг”
  • Bengali: “তাঞ্জুং পিনাং”
  • Betawi: “Kota Tanjungpinang”
  • Catalan: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Cebuano: “Tanjungpinang”
  • Chinese: “Tanjungpinang Chhī”
  • Chinese: “丹戎槟榔”
  • Chinese: “丹戎檳榔”
  • Danish: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Dutch: “Riouw”
  • Dutch: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Esperanto: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Finnish: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • French: “Tanjungpinang”
  • Georgian: “ტანჯუნგპინანგი”
  • German: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Tanjung Pinang”
  • Greek: “Τανζούνγκ Πίνανγκ”
  • Gujarati: “તનજુંગ પિનાંગ”
  • Hebrew: “טנג’ונג פיננג”
  • Hindi: “तनजुंग पिनांग”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Tanjung Pinang”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Tanjungpinang”
  • Indonesian: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Indonesian: “Tanjungpinang, Kepulauan Riau”
  • Irish: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Italian: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Japanese: “タンジュン・ピナン”
  • Japanese: “タンジュンピナン”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Tanjungpinang”
  • Kannada: “ತಂಜಾಂಗ್ ಪಿನಾಂಗ್”
  • Komering: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Korean: “탄중피낭”
  • Latvian: “Tandžunga Pinanga”
  • Latvian: “Tandžunpinana”
  • Lithuanian: “Tandžung Pinangas”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Tanjungpinang”
  • Malay: “Kota Tanjung Pinang”
  • Malay: “Kota Tanjungpinang”
  • Malay: “Tanjungpinang, Kepulauan Riau”
  • Malay: “Tanjungpinang”
  • Malay: “تنجوڠ ڤينڠ”
  • Malay: “کوتا تنجوڠ ڤينڠ”
  • Marathi: “तनजुंग पिनांग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Tanjungpinang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Norwegian: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Persian: “تانجونگ پینانگ”
  • Polish: “Tanjungpinang”
  • Romanian: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Russian: “Танджунг-Пинанг”
  • Russian: “Танджунгпинанг”
  • Sinhala: “ටන්ජුන් පිනැන්ග්”
  • Spanish: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Swedish: “Tanjungpinang”
  • Tagalog: “Tanjungpinang”
  • Tamil: “டான்ஜுங் பினாங்”
  • Tatar: “Танҗуң-Пинаң”
  • Telugu: “తన్జుంగ్ పినాంగ్”
  • Thai: “ตันจุงปีนัง”
  • Turkish: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Ukrainian: “Танджунг-Пінанг”
  • Ukrainian: “Танджунгпінанг”
  • Urdu: “تانجونگ پینانگ”
  • Venetian: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tanjung Pinang”
  • Western Panjabi: “تانجونگ پینانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “丹戎槟榔”
  • “Kota Tanjung Pinang”
  • “Tanjung Pinang”

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