Sumatra
Sumatra is a region of Indonesia and the 6th largest island in the world. Wild and rugged, it has a great natural wealth.Tap on the map to travel |
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Medan
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Medan is a very large city on the north coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, and the capital and largest city of North Sumatra province.
Krakatoa
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Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.
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North Sumatra
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North Sumatra is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra.
Riau Islands
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The Riau Islands is a province of Indonesia - not to be confused with neighbouring Riau Province from which the islands were separated in 2002.
West Sumatra
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West Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It is on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast.
Aceh
Aceh is a province and special territory of Indonesia, in the northwestern part of the island of Sumatra.Lampung
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Lampung, officially the Province of Lampung, is a province of Indonesia.
Bangka-Belitung
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Bangka-Belitung, cutely abbreviated Babel, is a province in Indonesia consisting of the islands of Bangka and Belitung, just off the south-eastern coast of Sumatra.
South Sumatra
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South Sumatra is a province of Indonesia, located in the southeast of the island of Sumatra.
Riau
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Riau is a province in Sumatra. It is located on the east coast of the island and is rich in oil.
Jambi
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Jambi is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and stretches to the Barisan Mountains in the west.
Bengkulu
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Bengkulu, historically known as Bencoolen, is a province of Indonesia.
Gunung Leuser National Park
Gunung Leuser National Park is a large Indonesian national park covering 950,000 hectares in northern Sumatra, straddling the border of the provinces of North Sumatra and Aceh.Sumatra
- Type: Island with 50,400,000 residents
- Description: island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
0°Longitude of centre
102° eastPopulation
50,400,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)United Nations Location Code
ID TRAGeoNames ID
1626198Wikidata ID
Q3492Sumatra Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Ruja
- Afar: Sumatra
- Afrikaans: Soematra
- Afrikaans: Sumatra
- Albanian: Sumatra
- Amharic: ሱማትራ
- Arabic: Sumatra
- Arabic: سومطرة
- Aragonese: Sumatra
- Armenian: Սումատրա
- Asturian: Sumatra
- Azerbaijani: Sumatra
- Balinese: Nusa Sumatera
- Balinese: Sumatra
- Banjar: Sumatera
- Bashkir: Суматра
- Basque: Sumatra
- Batak Toba: Sumatra
- Belarusian: Востраў Суматра
- Belarusian: Суматра
- Bengali: সুমাত্রা
- Bosnian: Sumatra
- Breton: Sumatera
- Bulgarian: Суматра
- Burmese: ဆူမတြာကျွန်း
- Catalan: Sumatra
- Cebuano: Sumatra
- Central Bikol: Sumatra
- Chinese: Sumatera
- Chinese: 苏门答腊
- Chinese: 蘇門答臘
- Croatian: Sumatra
- Czech: Sumatra
- Danish: Sumatra
- Dutch: Sumatera
- Dutch: Sumatra
- Egyptian Arabic: سومطره
- English: Andalas
- English: Pulau Sumatera
- English: Sumatera
- English: Sumatera Island
- English: Sumatra, Indonesia
- English: Sumatra Island
- Esperanto: Kategorio:Sumatro
- Esperanto: Sumatro
- Estonian: Sumatra
- Finnish: Sumatra
- French: Sumatra
- Galician: Sumatra
- Georgian: სუმატრა
- German: Sumatra
- Gorontalo: Sumatra
- Greek: Σουμάτρα
- Hakka Chinese: Sumatra
- Hakka Chinese: Sû-mùn-tap-lia̍p
- Hausa: Sumatra
- Hebrew: סומטרה
- Hindi: सुमात्रा
- Hungarian: Szumátra
- Icelandic: Súmatra
- Ido: Sumatra
- Iloko: Sumatra
- Indonesian: Andalas
- Indonesian: Pulau Sumatera
- Indonesian: Sumatera
- Indonesian: Sumatra
- Indonesian: pulau Andalas
- Indonesian: pulau Perca
- Indonesian: pulau Sumatera
- Indonesian: pulau Sumatra
- Interlingua: Sumatra
- Irish: Sumatra
- Italian: Sumatra
- Japanese: スマトラ島
- Javanese: Sumatra
- Kara-Kalpak: Sumatra
- Kazakh: Суматра
- Khmer: កោះស៊ូម៉ាត្រា
- Kirghiz: Суматра
- Korean: 수마트라 섬
- Korean: 수마트라섬
- Korean: 쑤마떼라
- Lao: Sumatra
- Latin: Sumatra
- Latvian: Sumatra
- Limburgan: Sumatra
- Lithuanian: Sumatra
- Lombard: Sumatra
- Luxembourgish: Sumatra
- Macedonian: Суматра
- Madurese: Polo Somattra
- Maithili: सुमात्रा
- Malagasy: Somatra
- Malay: Sumatera
- Malay: سوماترا
- Malayalam: ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്
- Malayalam: സുമാത്ര
- Marathi: सुमात्रा
- Mazanderani: سوماترا
- Min Nan Chinese: Sumatera
- Minangkabau: Sumatera
- Minangkabau: Sumatra
- Mingrelian: სუმატრა
- Nepali: सुमात्रा
- Northern Frisian: Sumatra
- Norwegian: Sumatra
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sumatra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sumatra
- Occitan (post 1500): Sumatra
- Oriya: ସୁମାତ୍ରା
- Ossetian: Суматрæ
- Pampanga: Sumatra
- Panjabi: ਸੁਮਾਤਰਾ
- Persian: سوماترا
- Piemontese: Sumatra
- Polish: Sumatra
- Portuguese: Samatra
- Portuguese: Sumatra
- Romanian: Sumatra
- Russian: Суматра
- Samogitian: Sumatra
- Santali: ᱥᱩᱢᱟᱛᱨᱟ
- Saterfriesisch: Sumatra
- Scottish Gaelic: Sumatra
- Serbian: Суматра
- Serbo-Croatian: Sumatra
- Shona: Sumatara
- Sicilian: Sumatra
- Silesian: Sůmatra
- Slovak: Sumatra
- Slovenian: Sumatra
- South Azerbaijani: سوماترا
- Spanish: Sumatra
- Sundanese: Sumatra
- Swahili: Sumatra
- Swedish: Sumatra
- Swiss German: Sumatra
- Tagalog: Sumatra
- Tamil: சுமாத்திரா
- Tatar: Суматра
- Thai: เกาะสุมาตรา
- Tosk Albanian: Sumatra
- Turkish: Sumatra
- Ukrainian: Суматра
- Urdu: سماٹرا
- Uzbek: Sumatra
- Venetian: Sumatra
- Veps: Sumatr
- Vietnamese: Sumatra
- Waray (Philippines): Sumatra
- Welsh: Sumatera
- Western Frisian: Sumatra
- Western Mari: Суматра
- Western Panjabi: سماٹرا
- Wu Chinese: 苏门答腊岛
- Yue Chinese: 蘇門答臘
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