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Samosir Island
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Samosir, or Samosir Island, is a large volcanic island in Lake Toba, located in North Sumatra Province on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Administratively, Samosir Island is governed as six of the nine districts within Samosir Regency. The lake and island were formed after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano some 75,000 years ago.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Samosir Island is referenced by 183 other articles, and connects out to Indonesia, volcano and Indonesian.
The entry is geolocated on the map in isle_scale, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Asahan Toba basin, Batak and Islands of Sumatra.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Samosir Island
- Islands.native_name
- Pulau Samosir (Indonesian)Pulo Samosir (Batak)
- Islands.image_name
- Toba zoom.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Samosir is in the middle of Lake Toba.
- Islands.map
- Indonesia Sumatra
- Islands.location
- South East Asia
- Islands.area_km2
- 630
- Islands.country
- Indonesia
- Islands.population
- 108,869
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2020 Census
- Islands.density_km2
- 172.8
- Islands.ethnic_groups
- Batak
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Samosir, or Samosir Island, is a large volcanic island in Lake Toba, located in North Sumatra Province on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Administratively, Samosir Island is governed as six of the nine districts within Samosir Regency. The lake and island were formed after the eruption of the Toba supervolcano some 75,000 years ago.
At , Samosir is the largest island within an island and the fourth largest lake island in the world. It also contains two smaller lakes, Lake Sidihoni and . Across the lake on the east of the island lies the Uluan Peninsula. The island was historically linked to the mainland of Sumatra on its western part by a narrow isthmus connecting the town of Pangururan on Samosir and Tele on mainland Sumatra, but it was split by the Tano Ponggol Canal and bridge in 1906, which was widened in 2019. Tele consequently offers one of the best views of Lake Toba and Samosir Island. One of the most important objects on the island is a Lutheran church, and opposite it is a huge hill.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samosir Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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