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Geography
This is one of the exciting Indonesia destination called Kupang Regency and
this is around the provincial capital of East Nusa Tenggara, the Kupang
city in the west coast of Timor with a population of 522.944 approximately.
Kupang District occupies an area of 53.958,28 Km²and consist of:
- Land occupied 7.178,28 Km²,
- Sea is about 46 780 Km²,
- beach length ± 492,4 Km.
The district of Kupang located in the very south part Indonesia. It
has 27 islands and 18 of them are already given name, while 9 islands
still unnamed. 5 island already being occupied.Those 5 island are:
ISLAND |
POPULATION |
AREA
(KM2) |
Timor |
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4.937.62 |
Sabu |
78.726 |
460.81 |
Semau |
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246.66 |
Raijua |
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36.97 |
Pulau
Kera |
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1,5 |
The latitude of Kupang district is about:
Kupang district is bordered with:
1. On the
North bordered with Sawu sea, and Ombai strait.
2. On the South bordered with Indian Ocean
3. On the East bordered with TTS and Ambeno District (Timor Leste)
4. On the West bordered with District of Rote Ndao and Sawu sea.
A VIEW TO INDONESIAN BORDER ISLAND
IN THE REGENCY OF KUPANG
Island of Ndana - SabuThis island is one of the very outer part
of Indonesia, specially in the regency of Kupang. Once in past some
Australian (probably greenpeace) reside here for about four years, but
their present detected by Indonesian Sea Force and put the Indonesian
flag in the island. This island stay unoccupied and unliveable till
nowadays, because on high tide on seventy five percent of the island
covered by water, and surely its risky for living, even for soldier.
There is no fresh available in the island. Eventhough the Indonesian
Sea Force are frequently guard this island
ISLAND OF BATEK
Pulau Batek or Island of Batek located in the area of
North Amfoang Sub Regency, once claimed by Timor Leste government as
their teritory because its just nearby to Oecusi District in Timor Leste.
The Batek island is often used by Indonesian Sea Force for exercising
and later become a tourism object.
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