Alor Island
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island in Alor Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
Key facts
- Location
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Coordinates
- 8°15′S 124°45′E / 8.250°S 124.750°E / -8.250; 124.750
- Archipelago
- Alor archipelago
- Area
- 2,124.92 km (820.44 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 1,423 m (4669 ft)
- Highest point
- Gunung Muna
- Province
- East Nusa Tenggara
- Regency
- Alor Regency
- Largest settlement
- Kalabahi (pop. 19,210 )
- Population
- 174,150 (mid 2024 estimate )
- Pop density
- 80.6/km (208.8/sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Alor Archipelago
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- South West Alor
- Population
- 145299
- Area
- 20112.4902
- Elevation
- 875
- Body of water
- Ombai Strait
- Image
- 10-103b Alor subdistricts relief colour.tif
- Width
- 35.1
- Length
- 90.4
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- Commons category
- Alor Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- name
- Ombai
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Encyclopedic overview
Alor (Indonesian: Pulau Alor) is the largest island in the Alor Archipelago and is one of the 92 officially listed outlying islands of Indonesia. It is located at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain that runs through southeastern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores.
To the east of the island across the Ombai Strait lie the islands of Wetar (in Maluku Province) and Atauro, the latter belonging to East Timor. To the south, across the Strait of Alor, lies the western part of Timor. To the north lies the Banda Sea. To the west lies Pantar and the other islands of the Alor archipelago, and further yet the rest of the Sunda Islands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alor Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.