West Timor
West Timor is the Indonesian western half of the island of Timor, adjacent to the independent country of East Timor. West Timor is one of the three main parts of the province of East Nusa Tenggara, along with the islands of Flores and Sumba.
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West Timor
- Type: geographical feature with 2,010,000 residents
- Description: western portion of the island of Timor
- Also known as: “Dutch Timor”, “Holandský Timor”, “Indonesian Timor”, “Indonezia Timoro”, “Timor Neerlandês”, “Timor oeste”, and “荷屬帝汶”
- Location: Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-9.7833° or 9° 46′ 60″ south
Longitude of center
124.1333° or 124° 7′ 60″ east
Population
2,010,000
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“West Timor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيمور الغربية”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম তিমুর”
- Catalan: “Timor Occidental”
- Chinese: “西帝汶”
- Dutch: “West-Timor”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Timoro”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Timor”
- French: “Timor occidental”
- Galician: “Timor Occidental”
- German: “Westtimor”
- Hebrew: “מערב טימור”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Timor”
- Indonesian: “Timor Barat”
- Irish: “Tíomór Thiar”
- Italian: “Timor Ovest”
- Japanese: “西ティモール”
- Korean: “서티모르”
- Lao: “ຕີມໍຕາເວັນຕົກ”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Timoras”
- Luxembourgish: “Westtimor”
- Macedonian: “Западен Тимор”
- Malay: “Timor Barat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vest-Timor”
- Norwegian: “Vest-Timor”
- Persian: “تیمور غربی”
- Polish: “Timor Zachodni”
- Portuguese: “Timor Ocidental”
- Russian: “Западный Тимор”
- Sindhi: “ويسٽ تيمور”
- Slovak: “Západný Timor”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni Timor”
- Spanish: “Timor Occidental”
- Swedish: “Västtimor”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு திமோர்”
- Thai: “ติมอร์ตะวันตก”
- Turkish: “Batı Timor”
- Urdu: “مغربی تیمور”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Timor”
- Western Panjabi: “لہندا تیمور”
- Wu Chinese: “西帝汶”
- Yue Chinese: “西帝汶”
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