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Bangka Island
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island in Bangka Belitung Islands Province, Indonesia
Bangka Island is a large island located in the Bangka Belitung Islands Province in Indonesia. It is notable as a significant geographic and administrative center in that region.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- Bangka Belitung Islands
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Pangkal Pinang
- Population
- 626955
- Area
- 11413
- Elevation
- 63
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Body of water
- Karimata Strait
- Image
- Perahu Nelayan di Bangka.jpg
- Width
- 114
- Length
- 222
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- Commons category
- Bangka
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- native label
- Pulau Bangka
- located in/on physical feature
- Sunda Islands
- different from
- Bangka Island
- name
- Banka
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Encyclopedic overview
Bangka is an island lying east of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is administered under the province of the Bangka Belitung Islands, being one of its namesakes alongside the smaller island of Belitung across the Gaspar Strait. The 9th largest island in Indonesia, it had a population of 1,146,581 at the 2020 census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 1,191,300. It is the location of the provincial capital of Pangkal Pinang, and is administratively divided into four regencies and a city. The island itself and the surrounding sea suffers considerable environmental damage from its thriving tin mining industry which operates on- and offshore.
Geography
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