Timika
Timika is the largest city in Central Papua province in Papua, with 142,000 residents in 2020. It has become a gateway to one of the largest gold mines on the planet, the Grasberg mine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 142,000 residents
- Description: city in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Timoeka” and “Timuka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tembagapura Timika Airport.
Tembagapura Timika Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: 22Kartika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mozes Kilangin Airport is a domestic airport located in Timika, the capital of Mimika Regency in Central Papua, Indonesia. The airport serves as the primary gateway to Timika, the largest town in Central Papua, and the Grasberg Mine, the world's largest gold mine, operated by Freeport-McMoRan.
Timika
- Categories: capital of regency and locality
- Location: Mimika Regency, Central Papua Province, Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-4.5481° or 4° 32′ 53″ southLongitude
136.8899° or 136° 53′ 24″ eastPopulation
142,000Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)United Nations Location Code
ID TMKOpen location code
6Q7RFV2Q+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1248767553OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Timika from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- 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”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Timika”. Photo: Davidelit, CC0.