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: “Pulau Ternate”, “Ternate island”, “Ternate Island”, and “Остров Тернате”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gamalama.
Gamalama
Volcano
Gamalama is a near-conical active stratovolcano that comprises the entire Ternate island in Indonesia. The island lies off the western shore of Halmahera island in the north of the Maluku Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Foramadiahi.
Foramadiahi
Village
Foramadiahi is a village on Ternate island in North Maluku, Indonesia. It has a prominent role in stories about the formation of the Ternate Kingdom and has a number of historical graves.
Ternate
- Category: landform
- Location: North Malaku Province, Maluku, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
United Nations Location Code
ID TTE
Open location code
6QG9R84R+65
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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: “Illa de Ternate”
- Catalan: “Ternate”
- Cebuano: “Ternate Island”
- Chinese: “德那第”
- Chinese: “德那第島”
- 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”
- Italian: “Ternate”
- Japanese: “テルナテ島”
- Javanese: “Pulo Ternaté, Ternaté”
- Korean: “테르나테 섬”
- Korean: “테르나테”
- Korean: “트르나테 섬”
- Korean: “트르나테”
- Korean: “트르나테섬”
- Latin: “Ternata”
- Latvian: “Ternate”
- Lithuanian: “Ternatė”
- Malay: “Kota Ternate”
- Malay: “Ternate”
- Malayalam: “ടെർനടെ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ternate”
- Persian: “ترنیت”
- Polish: “Ternate”
- Portuguese: “Ternate”
- Romanian: “Ternate”
- Russian: “Тернате”
- Spanish: “Ternate”
- Swedish: “Ternate City”
- Swedish: “Ternate”
- Thai: “เกาะเตอร์นาเต”
- Thai: “เตอร์นาเต”
- 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”
- “Pulau Ternate, Ternate”
- “Ternate”
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