Timika

Timika is the largest city in Central Papua province in , with 142,000 residents in 2020. It has become a gateway to one of the largest gold mines on the planet, the Grasberg mine.
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  • Type: City with 143,000 residents
  • Description: city in Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Timoeka” and “Timuka”
  • Neighbors:

Timika

Latitude
-4.5481° or 4° 32′ 53″ south
Longitude
136.8899° or 136° 53′ 24″ east
Population
143,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ID TMK
Open location code
6Q7RFV2Q+QX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1248767553
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1623834
Wiki­data ID
Q1026405
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Timika” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تيميكا”
  • Bengali: “তিমিকা”
  • Catalan: “Timika”
  • Chinese: “蒂米卡”
  • Danish: “Timika”
  • Dutch: “Timika”
  • Dzongkha: “དབུས་པ་པུ་ཝ། ས་གནས།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيميكا”
  • Finnish: “Timika”
  • French: “Timika”
  • German: “Timika”
  • Greek: “Τιμίκα”
  • Gujarati: “ટિમીકા”
  • Hindi: “तिमिका”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Timika”
  • Indonesian: “Timika”
  • Italian: “Timika”
  • Japanese: “ティミカ”
  • Kannada: “ತಿಮಿಕಾ”
  • Korean: “티미카”
  • Latvian: “Timika”
  • Lithuanian: “Timika”
  • Malay: “Timika”
  • Marathi: “तिमिका”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Timika”
  • Polish: “Timika”
  • Portuguese: “Kota Timika”
  • Portuguese: “Timika”
  • Romanian: “Timika”
  • Russian: “Тимика”
  • Sinhala: “ටිමිකා”
  • Spanish: “Kota Timika”
  • Swedish: “Timika”
  • Tamil: “திமிக்கா”
  • Tamil: “மிமிக்கா பிராந்தியம்”
  • Telugu: “తిమికా”
  • Thai: “ติมิกา”
  • Turkish: “Timika”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіміка”
  • Urdu: “تیمیکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Timika”
  • “Kota Timika”
  • “Timika”

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