Ternate
Ternate is the city with the largest population in the province of North Maluku and an island in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. It was the de facto provincial capital of North Maluku before Sofifi on the nearby coast of Halmahera became the capital in 2010.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Ternate City, North Maluku Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Illa de Ternate”, “Kota Ternate”, “Ternate City”, “Ternate island”, “Ternate Island”, “Остров Тернате”, “ടെർനടെ”, “เตอร์นาเต”, “테르나테”, “테르나테 섬”, and “트르나테”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gamalama.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Foramadiahi.
Ternate
- Category: landform
- Location: North Malaku Province, Maluku, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
0.8056° or 0° 48′ 20″ north
Longitude
127.3404° or 127° 20′ 26″ east
Population
176,000
Elevation
1,414 metres (4,639 feet)
IATA airport code
TTE
UN/LOCODE
ID TTE
Open location code
6QG9R84R+65
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Ternate” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Ternate”
- Afrikaans: “Ternate”
- Arabic: “ترناتي”
- Arabic: “جزيرة تيرنات”
- Arabic: “جزيرة تيرنيت”
- Armenian: “Տերնատե”
- Azerbaijani: “Ternate”
- Basque: “Ternate”
- Bulgarian: “Тернате (остров)”
- Bulgarian: “Тернате”
- Catalan: “Ternate”
- Cebuano: “Ternate Island”
- Chinese: “德那第”
- Chinese: “特尔纳特岛”
- Czech: “Ternate”
- Dutch: “Ternate”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره تيرنات”
- Esperanto: “Ternato”
- Estonian: “Ternate”
- Finnish: “Ternate”
- French: “Ternate”
- Galician: “Ternate”
- German: “Ternate”
- Greek: “Τερνάτε”
- Hebrew: “טרנאטה”
- Hindi: “तेरनाते द्वीप”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Ternate”
- Indonesian: “Ternate”
- Italian: “isola Ternate”
- Italian: “Isola Ternate”
- Japanese: “テルナテ島”
- Javanese: “Pulau Ternate, Ternate”
- Javanese: “Pulo Ternaté, Ternaté”
- Korean: “트르나테 섬”
- Korean: “트르나테섬”
- Latin: “Ternata”
- Latvian: “Ternate”
- Lithuanian: “Ternatė”
- Malay: “Ternate”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ternate”
- Persian: “ترنیت”
- Polish: “Ternate”
- Portuguese: “Ternate”
- Romanian: “Ternate”
- Russian: “Тернате”
- Spanish: “Ternate”
- Swedish: “Ternate”
- Thai: “เกาะเตอร์นาเต”
- Turkish: “Ternate”
- Ukrainian: “Тернате”
- Vietnamese: “Ternate”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ternate”
- Western Mari: “Тернате”
- Wu Chinese: “德那第島”
- Yue Chinese: “德那第島”
- “Pulau Ternate”
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Places to explore: Moya and Marikurubu.
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