Nias
Nias is an island the Indian Ocean off North Sumatra. Isolated yet worldly, the Nias Island chain has been trading since prehistory with other cultures, other islands, and even mainland Asia.Photo: Hendypernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nias
- Type: Island
- Description: island in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Category: landform
- Location: North Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
1.1215° or 1° 7' 17" northLongitude
97.6181° or 97° 37' 5" eastPopulation
756,000Elevation
374 metres (1,227 feet)United Nations Location Code
ID NIAOpen Location Code
6MHV4JC9+H6GeoNames ID
1214404Wikidata ID
Q505707Nias Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Niëh
- Albanian: Nias
- Arabic: نياس
- Armenian: Նիաս
- Asturian: Nías
- Azerbaijani: Nias adası
- Belarusian: Востраў Ніас
- Belarusian: Ніас
- Bulgarian: Ниас
- Catalan: Nias
- Cebuano: Pulau Nias
- Chinese: 尼亚斯岛
- Chinese: 尼亞斯島
- Czech: Nias
- Danish: Nias
- Dutch: Nias
- Egyptian Arabic: نياس
- English: Eiland Nias
- English: Nias Island
- English: Nías
- English: Pulau Nias
- English: niasu dao
- English: nyas
- English: نياس
- English: ニアス島
- Esperanto: Niaso
- Estonian: Nias
- Finnish: Nias
- French: Nias
- French: Île de Nias
- Galician: Nias
- German: Nias
- Greek: Νίας
- Hebrew: ניאס
- Hindi: नियास
- Indonesian: Pulau Nias
- Italian: Isola di Nias
- Italian: Nias
- Japanese: ニアス島
- Javanese: Pulo Nias
- Kazakh: Nïas
- Kazakh: Ниас
- Kazakh: نىياس
- Korean: 니아스섬
- Latvian: Niasa
- Lithuanian: Niasas
- Macedonian: Нијас
- Malay: Nias
- Malayalam: നിയാസ്
- Minangkabau: Pulau Nieh
- Nias: Tanö Niha
- Norwegian: Nias
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nias
- Pampanga: Nias
- Persian: نیاس
- Polish: Nias
- Portuguese: Nias
- Russian: Ниас
- Spanish: Islas Nias
- Spanish: Islas Nías
- Spanish: Nias
- Spanish: Nías
- Swahili: Nias
- Swedish: Nias, Indonesien
- Swedish: Nias
- Tamil: நியாசு
- Tamil: நியாஸுத் தீவு
- Tamil: நியாஸ்
- Tamil: நியாஸ் தீவு
- Thai: เกาะนียัซ
- Ukrainian: Ніас
- Vietnamese: Nias
- Vietnamese: Nias Island
Other Places Named Nias
In the Area
Nias is situated close to the villages Loloanaa Idanoi and Siwalubanua I.
- SamasiVillage
- AwaaiVillage
- Tetehosi IiVillage
- Tuhegeo IiVillage
- Lewuoguru IdanoiVillage
- HilihambawaVillage
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Nias. Photo: Hendypernando, CC BY-SA 4.0.