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.
Timika
- Categories: capital of regency and locality
- Location: Mimika Regency, Central Papua Province, Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-4.5481° or 4° 32′ 53″ south
Longitude
136.8899° or 136° 53′ 24″ east
Population
143,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ID TMK
Open location code
6Q7RFV2Q+QX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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: “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”
- Romanian: “Timika”
- Russian: “Тимика”
- Sinhala: “ටිමිකා”
- Spanish: “Kota Timika”
- Swedish: “Timika”
- Tamil: “திமிக்கா”
- Telugu: “తిమికా”
- Thai: “ติมิกา”
- Turkish: “Timika”
- Ukrainian: “Тіміка”
- Urdu: “تیمیکا”
- Vietnamese: “Timika”
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