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Bintan Island
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island in Bintan Regency, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia
Key facts
- Area
- 1,170 km (450 sq mi)
- Highest point
- Mount Bintan Besar (360 m)
- Province
- Riau Islands
- Largest settlement
- Tanjungpinang (pop. 233,367)
- Population
- 387,181 (2020)
- Pop density
- 139.39/km (361.02/sq mi)
- Time zone
- IWST ( UTC+07:00 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Riau Islands
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- Bintan
- Capital
- Tanjungpinang
- Area
- 1173
- Elevation
- 17
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Body of water
- Singapore Strait
- Official website
- www.docstoc.com/docs/24636560/Governor-of-Riau-Islands-Province-Chairman-Batam-Bintan-Karimun-Free
- Image
- Sumpat, Bintan.JPG
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- Commons category
- Bintan
- located in/on physical feature
- Greater Sunda Islands
- name
- Bintan
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Encyclopedic overview
Bintan Island, traditionally known as Negeri Segantang Lada, is an island in the Riau archipelago of Indonesia. It is part of the Riau Islands province, the capital of which, Tanjung Pinang, lies in the island's south and is the island's main community.
The land area of the island of Bintan is roughly 1,170 square kilometres (450 mi). Its administrative region is designated the Bintan Regency, one of the six administrative regencies of the Riau Islands province. The city of Tanjung Pinang is an autonomous area geographically within Bintan Island but not included in the Regency.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bintan Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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