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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kupang and Atambua.
Kupang
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Kupang is a city in West Timor and the provincial capital of East Nusa Tenggara. It has a beautiful white sand beach, and a water amusement park.
Atambua
Atambua is the regency seat of Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The town stretches 8.5 km from north to south and 5 km from east to west, and is in the north of the western half of Timor Island.Kefamenanu
Kefamenanu is a town and capital of the administrative district of Kota Kefamenanu and of the North Central Timor Regency in West Timor, Indonesia. A road connects it to Halilulik and Kota Atambua to the northeast.Destinations to Discover
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Soe
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Soe is the administrative capital of the South Central Timor Regency, in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Soe is located on Timor Island. It was heavily bombed in 1944 during the second world war Water supplies for the locality have been a problem…
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West Timor
- Type: geographical feature with 2,010,000 residents
- Description: western and Indonesian portion of the island of Timor
- Also known as: “Dutch Timor” and “Indonesian Timor”
- Location: Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-9.7833° or 9° 46′ 60″ southLongitude of center
124.1333° or 124° 7′ 60″ eastPopulation
2,010,000Wikidata ID
Q862471
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Satellite Map
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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: “荷屬帝汶”
- Chinese: “西帝汶”
- Dutch: “West-Timor”
- Esperanto: “Indonezia Timoro”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Timoro”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Timor”
- French: “Timor occidental”
- Galician: “Timor Occidental”
- German: “Timor Barat”
- 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: “Timor Barat”
- Luxembourgish: “Westtimor”
- Macedonian: “Западен Тимор”
- Malay: “Timor Barat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vest-Timor”
- Norwegian: “Vest-Timor”
- Persian: “تیمور غربی”
- Polish: “Timor Zachodni”
- Portuguese: “Timor Neerlandês”
- Portuguese: “Timor Ocidental”
- Portuguese: “Timor oeste”
- Russian: “Западный Тимор”
- Sindhi: “ويسٽ تيمور”
- Slovak: “Holandský Timor”
- 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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