Timor-Leste
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as Timor-Leste or East Timor, is one of the world's newest countries: after a long struggle, it gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 and is now an off-the-beaten-path destination for diving and adventure.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Dili and Oecussi.
Dili
Oecussi
Baucau
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Baucau is Timor-Leste's second largest city, behind Dili. It is located on the northern coast of Timor-Leste, east of Dili. The city has Timor-Leste's only major airport outside of the capital.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Timorese North Coast and Timorese South Coast.
Timorese North Coast
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The North Coast of Timor-Leste is the main destination for tourists who visit this small Southeast Asian nation. It holds the nation's capital; Dili.
Timor-Leste
- Type: Country with 1,120,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state situated on several islands in Southeast Asia
- Also known as: “Colónia de Timor”, “Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste”, “Loro Sae”, “Portuguese Timor”, “Propinsi Timor Timur”, “Province of Timor”, “Província de Timor”, “Timor Leste”, “TL”, and “TLS”
- Historically known as: “East Timor”
- Languages: Tetum, Portuguese, Indonesian, and English
- Neighbors: Australia and Indonesia
- Categories: sovereign state, island country, and locality
- Location: Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-8.76° or 8° 45′ 36″ southLongitude of center
126.1° or 126° 6′ eastPopulation
1,120,000Area
15,007 km² (5,794 miles²)Elevation
1,419 metres (4,656 feet)Capital
DiliCurrency
Dollar (USD)Phone code
.tlInternet domain
670OpenStreetMap ID
node 432424972OpenStreetMap feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
1966436Wikidata ID
Q574
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Timor-Leste” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Мрагыларатәи Тимор Адемократиатә Республика”
- Abkhazian: “Мрагыларатәи Тимор”
- Achinese: “Timor Leste”
- Afrikaans: “Oos-Timor”
- Akan: “Timɔ Boka”
- Albanian: “Timor-Leste”
- Albanian: “Timori Lindor”
- Amharic: “ምሥራቅ ቲሞር”
- Amharic: “ቲሞር ሌስቴ”
- Amis: “Timor-leste”
- Angika: “पूर्वी तिमोर”
- Arabic: “تيمور الشرقية”
- Aragonese: “Timor Oriental”
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Թիմոր”
- Armenian: “Թիմոր Լեշտի”
- Arpitan: “Timor levantenc”
- Arpitan: “Timor orientâl”
- Assamese: “টিমুৰ-লেষ্ট্ৰি”
- Assamese: “পূৱ টিমুৰ”
- Assamese: “পূৱ টিমোৰ”
- Asturian: “Timor Oriental”
- Asturian: “Timor-Leste”
- Atayal: “Timor-leste”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərq Timor”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərqi Timor”
- Balinese: “Timor Leste”
- Balinese: “Timor Lésté”
- Bambara: “Kɔrɔn Timɔr”
- Banjar: “Timor Lorosa’é”
- Bashkir: “Көнсығыш Тимор”
- Basque: “Ekialdeko Timor”
- Basque: “Timor ekialdea”
- Bavarian: “Osttimor”
- Belarusian: “Дэмакратычная рэспубліка Ўсходняга Тымору”
- Belarusian: “Тымор-Лешці”
- Belarusian: “Усходні Тымор”
- Bengali: “পূর্ব তিমুর”
- Betawi: “Timor Wètan”
- Bhojpuri: “पूर्ब तिमोर”
- Bishnupriya: “মুঙ তিমুর”
- Bislama: “Is Timor”
- Bosnian: “Istočni Timor”
- Bosnian: “Timor Leste”
- Brahui: “Deŧikí Temor”
- Breton: “Timor ar Reter”
- Breton: “Timor-Leste”
- Buginese: “Timor Leste”
- Buginese: “ᨈᨗᨆᨚᨑ ᨒᨙᨔᨈᨙ”
- Bulgarian: “Източен Тимор”
- Bulgarian: “Тимор Лесте”
- Burmese: “တီမောလက်စ်တေနိုင်ငံ”
- Burmese: “အရှေ့တီမော”
- Burmese: “အရှေ့တီမောနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “Timor Oriental”
- Cebuano: “Sidlakang Timor”
- Central Bikol: “Subangan na Timor”
- Central Kurdish: “تەیمووری ڕۆژھەڵات”
- Central Kurdish: “تیمۆری ڕۆژھەڵات”
- Chavacano: “Timor Oriental”
- Chechen: “Малкхбалехьара Тимор”
- Chechen: “Малхбален Тимор”
- Chechen: “Тимор-Лесте”
- Cherokee: “ᏘᎼᎵ-ᎴᏍᏖ”
- Cheyenne: “East Timor”
- Chinese: “Tang Timor”
- Chinese: “东帝汶 / 東帝汶”
- Chinese: “东帝汶”
- Chinese: “東帝汶”
- Cornish: “Timor Est”
- Corsican: “Timor Este”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şarqiy Timor”
- Croatian: “Istočni Timor”
- Croatian: “Timor-Leste”
- Czech: “Timor Leste”
- Czech: “Timor-Leste”
- Czech: “Východní Timor”
- Dagbani: “Timor Est”
- Dagbani: “Timor-Leste”
- Danish: “Østtimor”
- Danish: “Timor-Leste”
- Dhivehi: “އިރުމަތީ ޓިމޯރު”
- Dimli (individual language): “Timurê Rocvetışi”
- Dotyali: “पूर्वी टिमोर”
- Dutch: “Democratische Republiek Oost-Timor”
- Dutch: “Oost-Timor”
- Dutch: “TL”
- Dutch: “TLS”
- Dzongkha: “ཏི་་མོར་ལེ་ཨེསཊ”
- Eastern Mari: “Эрвел Тимор”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيمور الشرقيه”
- Erzya: “Чилисемань Тимор Мастор”
- Esperanto: “Demokratia Respubliko Orienta Timoro”
- Esperanto: “Orient-Timoro”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Timoro”
- Esperanto: “TL”
- Estonian: “Ida Timor”
- Estonian: “Ida-Timor”
- Estonian: “Ida-Timori Demokraatlik Vabariik”
- Estonian: “Timor-Leste Demokraatlik Vabariik”
- Ewe: “Timor-Leste nutome”
- Extremaduran: “Timol Oriental”
- Faroese: “Eysturtimor”
- Fiji Hindi: “East Timor”
- Finnish: “Itä-Timor”
- Finnish: “Itä-Timorin demokraattinen tasavalta”
- Finnish: “Timor-Leste”
- French: “la République démocratique du Timor oriental”
- French: “République démocratique du Timor oriental”
- French: “République démocratique du Timor-Leste”
- French: “République démocratique du Timor-Oriental”
- French: “Timor oriental”
- French: “Timor Oriental”
- French: “Timor-Leste”
- French: “Timor-Oriental”
- French: “TL”
- Fulah: “East Timor”
- Fulah: “Timoor Fuɗnaange”
- Gagauz: “Günduusu Timor”
- Galician: “Timor Leste”
- Galician: “Timor-Leste”
- Ganda: “Timowa”
- Georgian: “აღმოსავლეთი ტიმორი”
- Georgian: “ტიმორ-ლესტე”
- German: “Timór Loro Sa’e”
- German: “Timor-Leste”
- German: “Osttimor” (historical)
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Timor-Leste”
- Gilaki: “خۊرتاوي تيمؤر”
- Goan Konkani: “Udent Timor”
- Goan Konkani: “उदेंत तिमोर”
- Goan Konkani: “पूर्व तिमोर”
- Greek: “Ανατολικό Τιμόρ”
- Greek: “Τιμόρ-Λέστε”
- Guarani: “Kuarahyresẽ Timor”
- Guianese Creole French: “Timor oryantal”
- Gujarati: “પૂર્વ તિમોર”
- Haitian: “Timò oryantal”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng Timor”
- Hausa: “Timor Ta Gabas”
- Hausa: “Timor-Leste”
- Hawaiian: “Timor-Leste”
- Hebrew: “טימור המזרחית”
- Hebrew: “מזרח טימור”
- Hindi: “तिमोर-लेस्त”
- Hindi: “पूर्व तिमोर”
- Hindi: “पूर्वी तिमोर”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-Timor”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-timori Demokratikus Köztársaság”
- Hungarian: “Timor-Leste”
- Iban: “Timor Leste”
- Icelandic: “Austur-Tímor”
- Icelandic: “Tímor-Leste”
- Ido: “Est-Timor”
- Ido: “Estal Timor”
- Ido: “Timor Leste”
- Igbo: “East Timor”
- Iloko: “Daya a Timor”
- Inari Sami: “Nuorttâ-Timor demokraatlâš täsiväldi”
- Inari Sami: “Nuorttâ-Timor”
- Indonesian: “Republik Demokratik Timor Leste”
- Indonesian: “Republik Demokratik Timor-Leste”
- Indonesian: “Timor Leste”
- Indonesian: “Timor Timur”
- Indonesian: “Timor-Leste”
- Interlingua: “Timor del Est”
- Interlingua: “Timor Oriental”
- Interlingue: “Ost-Timor”
- Inupiaq: “Kivaliġñiq Timuuraq”
- Irish: “an Tíomór Thoir”
- Irish: “An Tíomór Thoir”
- Irish: “Tíomór Thoir”
- Italian: “Timor Est”
- Italian: “Timor Orientale”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Iis Timor”
- Japanese: “東ティモール”
- Japanese: “東ティモール共和国”
- Japanese: “東ティモール民主共和国”
- Javanese: “Timor Wétan”
- Kabyle: “Timur n ugmuḍ”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Timor Leste”
- Kalaallisut: “Timor Kangilliit”
- Kalmyk: “Зюнһара Тимормудин Улс Орн”
- Kannada: “ಈಸ್ಟ್ ಟಿಮೋರ್”
- Kannada: “ಪೂರ್ವ ಟಿಮೋರ್”
- Kannada: “ಪೂರ್ವ ಟೀಮೊರ್”
- Kannada: “ಪೂರ್ವ ಟೀಮೋರ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shıǵıs Timor”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Кюнчыгъыш Тимор”
- Kashmiri: “مَشرِقی تایمور”
- Kashubian: “Pòrënkòwi Timor”
- Kazakh: “Тимор-Лесте”
- Kazakh: “Шығыс Тимор”
- Khmer: “ទីម័រខាងកើត”
- Khmer: “ទីម័រលេស្តេ”
- Kikuyu: “Timori ya Mashariki”
- Kinaray-A: “Morod·an nga Timor”
- Kinaray-A: “Murud·an nga Timor”
- Kinaray-A: “Murud·ang Timor”
- Kinyarwanda: “Timoro-Lesite”
- Kirghiz: “Тимор Лешти”
- Kirghiz: “Чыгыш Тимор”
- Komering: “Timor Leste”
- Kongo: “Timor-Leste”
- Korean: “동티모르”
- Kurdish: “Tîmora Rojhilat”
- Kurdish: “Tîmora-Leste”
- Ladin: “Timor de l’Est”
- Ladino: “Timor Oryentala”
- Lao: “ທິມໍ-ເລສເຕ”
- Lao: “ປະເທດຕີມໍແລັດສະເຕ”
- Latin: “Timor Orientalis”
- Latin: “Timora Orientalis”
- Latin: “Timoria Orientalis”
- Latvian: “Austrumtimora”
- Ligurian: “Timor Leste”
- Limburgan: “Oos-Timor”
- Lingala: “Timor ya monyɛlɛ”
- Lingala: “Timor ya Monyɛlɛ”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Timor Este”
- Literary Chinese: “東帝汶”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Timoras”
- Livvi: “Päivännouzu Timor”
- Lombard: “Timor Est”
- Low German: “Oosttimor”
- Lower Sorbian: “Pódzajtšny Timor”
- Luba-Katanga: “Timoru wa diboku”
- Lule Sami: “Lulle-Timåvrrå”
- Luxembourgish: “Demokratesch Republik Timor-Leste”
- Luxembourgish: “Osttimor”
- Luxembourgish: “Timor-Leste”
- Macedonian: “Источен Тимор”
- Macedonian: “Тимор Лесте”
- Maithili: “पूर्वी टिमोर”
- Maithili: “पूर्वी तिमोर”
- Malagasy: “Timor Atsinanana”
- Malagasy: “Timôro Atsinanana”
- Malay: “Timor Leste”
- Malay: “Timor Timur”
- Malay: “تيمور ليستي”
- Malayalam: “കിഴക്കൻ ടിമോർ”
- Malayalam: “കിഴക്കൻ തിമോർ”
- Maltese: “Repubblika Demokratika ta’ Timor Leste”
- Maltese: “Timor Leste”
- Maltese: “Timor tal-Lvant”
- Manipuri: “ꯇꯤꯃꯣꯔ-ꯂꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯦ”
- Manx: “Yn Teemor Hiar”
- Maori: “Tīmoa-ki-te-Rāwhiti”
- Marathi: “पूर्व तिमोर”
- Mazanderani: “شرقي تيمور”
- Mazanderani: “شرقی تیمور”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dĕ̤ng Timor”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tang Timor”
- Minangkabau: “Timor Leste”
- Mingrelian: “ბჟაეიოლ ტიმორიშ დემოკრატიულ რესპუბლიკა”
- Mingrelian: “ბჟაეიოლი ტიმორი”
- Mingrelian: “ტიმორ-ლესტე”
- Mirandese: “Timor-Leste”
- Mon: “ကၟိန်ဍုင်သမ္မတဒဳမံက်ကရေဇြဳ ထဳမဝ်လေဝ်သ်တေ”
- Mongolian: “Зүүн Тимор”
- Moroccan Arabic: “تيمور الشرقية”
- Moroccan Arabic: “تيمور شرقية”
- Nauru: “East Timor”
- Nepali: “पूर्वी टिमोर”
- Nepali: “पृर्वी टीमोर”
- Newari: “पूर्व टिमोर”
- Nias: “Timor Leste”
- North Ndebele: “East Timor”
- Northern Frisian: “Uast-Timor”
- Northern Sami: “Lulli-Timor demokráhtalaš dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Lulli-Timor”
- Northern Sami: “Nuorta-Timor demokráhtalaš dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Nuorta-Timor”
- Northern Sami: “Nuorta-Timora demokráhtalaš dásseváldi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den demokratiske republikken Øst-Timor”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Timor”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Timor-Leste”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Timor”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Øst-Timor”
- Norwegian: “Øst-Timor”
- Novial: “Timor-Leste”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Timòr Èst”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēasttimor”
- Oriya: “ଇଷ୍ଟ ଟିମୋର”
- Oriya: “ପୂର୍ବ ଟିମୋର”
- Oriya: “ପୂର୍ବ ତିମୋର୍”
- Oromo: “Tiimor Bahaa”
- Ossetian: “Скæсæн Тимор”
- Pampanga: “Aslagang Timor”
- Panjabi: “ਪੂਰਬ ਤਿਮੋਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਪੂਰਬੀ ਤਿਮੋਰ”
- Papiamento: “Ost-Timor”
- Persian: “تیمر شرق”
- Persian: “تیمور شرقی”
- Piemontese: “Timor Est”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Eist Tiimor”
- Polish: “Demokratyczna Republika Timoru Wschodniego”
- Polish: “Timor Wschodni”
- Polish: “Timor-Leste”
- Portuguese: “República Democrática de Timor-Leste”
- Portuguese: “Timor Leste”
- Portuguese: “Timor-Leste”
- Pushto: “ختيځ تيمور”
- Pushto: “ختيځ ټيمور”
- Quechua: “Anti Timur”
- Quechua: “Timor-Leste”
- Romanian: “Timor-Leste”
- Romanian: “Timorul de Est”
- Romansh: “Timor da l’Ost”
- Rundi: “Timoru y’iburasirazuba”
- Russia Buriat: “Зүүн Тимор”
- Russian: “Восточный Тимор”
- Russian: “Демократическая Республика Восточный Тимор”
- Russian: “Демократическая Республика Тимор-Лешти”
- Russian: “Тимор-Лесте”
- Russian: “Тимор-Леште”
- Russian: “Тимор-Лешти”
- Rusyn: “Выходный Тімор”
- Sakizaya: “Timor-leste”
- Samoan: “Sasaʻe Timor”
- Samogitian: “Rītū Timuors”
- Sango: “Timôro tî Tö”
- Santali: “ᱥᱟᱢᱟᱝ ᱛᱤᱢᱳᱨ”
- Sardinian: “Timor Orientale”
- Saterfriesisch: “Aast-Timor”
- Scots: “East Timor”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Timor-Leste”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tiomor an Ear”
- Serbian: “Istočni Timor”
- Serbian: “Источни Тимор”
- Serbian: “Тимор-Лесте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istočni Timor”
- Shan: “မိူင်းတီႇမေႃးပွတ်းဝၼ်းဢွၵ်ႇ”
- Shona: “East Timor”
- Sicilian: “Timor Est”
- Silesian: “Wschodńi Timůr”
- Sindhi: “اوڀر تيمور”
- Sinhala: “නැගෙනහිර ටිමෝරය”
- Skolt Sami: “Nuõrtt-Timoor demokraattlaž tääʹssväʹldd”
- Skolt Sami: “Nuõrtt-Timor”
- Slovak: “Východný Timor”
- Slovak: “Východotimorská demokratická republika”
- Slovenian: “Timor-Leste”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodni Timor”
- Somali: “Bariga Timor”
- Somali: “Timoor”
- South Azerbaijani: “دۇغو تیمۇر”
- South Azerbaijani: “شرقی تیمور”
- Spanish: “Republica Democratica de Timor Oriental”
- Spanish: “República Democrática de Timor Oriental”
- Spanish: “Timor Leste”
- Spanish: “Timor Oriental”
- Spanish: “Timor-Leste”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⵓⴳⵎⵓⴹ”
- Sundanese: “Timor Lésté”
- Sundanese: “Timor Wétan”
- Swahili: “Timor ya Mashariki”
- Swahili: “Timor-Leste”
- Swedish: “Demokratiska republiken Östtimor”
- Swedish: “Östtimor”
- Swedish: “Timor-Leste”
- Swiss German: “Osttimor”
- Sylheti: “ꠙꠥꠅꠞ ꠔꠤꠝꠞ”
- Tachelhit: “Timur n Ugmuḍ”
- Tagalog: “Silangang Timor”
- Tajik: “Тимор-Лесте”
- Tajik: “Тимори Шарқӣ”
- Tajik: “Тимури Шарқӣ”
- Talysh: “Demokratikə Respublikə Həšipemə Timor”
- Tamil: “கிழக்குத் திமோர்”
- Tamil: “திமோர்-லெஸ்தே”
- Taroko: “Timor-Leste”
- Tatar: “Көнчыгыш Тимор”
- Tatar: “Тимор-Лесте”
- Telugu: “తూర్పు టిమోర్”
- Telugu: “తూర్పు తిమోర్”
- Telugu: “తూర్పు తైమూర్”
- Tetum: “Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa’e”
- Tetum: “Timór Loro Sa’e”
- Tetum: “Timor Lorosa’e”
- Tetum: “Timór Lorosa’e”
- Tetum: “Timór Lorosae”
- Tetum: “Timor-Leste”
- Thai: “ติมอร์-เลสเต”
- Thai: “ประเทศติมอร์-เลสเต”
- Thai: “ประเทศติมอร์ตะวันออก”
- Tibetan: “ཤར་ཏིམོར།”
- Tigrinya: “ምብራቕ ቲሞር”
- Tok Pisin: “Is Timo”
- Tok Pisin: “Timor-Leste”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Timoa fakahahake”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tīmoa fakahahake”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Tīmoa Hahake”
- Tosk Albanian: “Osttimor”
- Tumbuka: “East Timor”
- Tunisian Arabic: “تيمور الشرقية”
- Turkish: “Doğu Timor”
- Turkmen: “Gündogar Timor”
- Turkmen: “Timor-Leste”
- Udmurt: “Тимор-Леште”
- Udmurt: “Ӵукпал Тимор”
- Udmurt: “Шунды ӝужан пал Тимор”
- Udmurt: “Шундыӝужан Тимор”
- Uighur: “شەرقىي تىمور”
- Ukrainian: “Демократична Республіка Східний Тимор”
- Ukrainian: “Східний Тимор”
- Ukrainian: “Тімор-Лешті”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wuchodny Timor”
- Urdu: “تیمور لیسٹ”
- Urdu: “مشرقی تیمور”
- Uzbek: “Sharqiy Timor”
- Uzbek: “Timor-Leste”
- Venetian: “Timor Est”
- Veps: “Päivnouzmaine Timor”
- Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Dân chủ Đông Timor”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Timor”
- Vietnamese: “Timor-Leste”
- Vlaams: “Ôost-Timor”
- Volapük: “Lofüda-Timoreän”
- Võro: “Hummogu-Timor”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sinirangan nga Timor”
- Welsh: “Dwyrain Timor”
- Welsh: “Timor-Leste”
- Western Frisian: “East Timor”
- Western Frisian: “East-Timor”
- Western Panjabi: “چڑھدا تیمور”
- Wolof: “Timoor gu Penku”
- Wolof: “Timor Leste”
- Wu Chinese: “东帝汶”
- Yakut: “Илин Тимор”
- Yiddish: “מזרח טימאר”
- Yoruba: “ÌlàOòrùn Tímọ̀”
- Yoruba: “Ìlàòrùn Timor”
- Yue Chinese: “東帝汶”
- Zeeuws: “Oôst-Timor”
- Zhuang: “Doeng Divwnq”
- Zhuang: “Doeng Timor”
- Zulu: “i-East Timor”
- “Category:East Timor”
- “Hummogu-Timor”
- “ma Simolese”
- “ma Simolete”
- “Rītū Timuors”
- “Timor Leste”
- “Timor Tlāpcopa”
- “पूर्ब तिमोर”
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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 “Timor-Leste”. Photo: Nhobgood, CC BY-SA 3.0.