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Nias Island

island in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia
Landform island Q505707
Nias Island
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Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
island

Location

Country
Indonesia[3]
Location
Indian Ocean[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 1.068°, 97.601°
Located in or next to body of water
Indian Ocean[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
North Sumatra[2]
Located in/on physical feature
Greater Sunda Islands[7]

Population and size

Area
+5125[15]
Elevation above sea level
+374[14]
Length
+120[13]
Population
+788132[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 788,132 GeoNames 756,338 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +5
Capital
Gunungsitoli[5]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9][10][11]
Different from
NIAS[12]
Name
Nias, Nias, Niasa, Niasas, Niaso, Nieh, Niëh, Tanö Niha[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Width
+40[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Nayas en Nias Island ar نياس cs Nias da Nias de Nias el Νίας es Islas Nías es Islas Nias es Nias es Nías fa نیاس fi Nias fr Île de Nias fr Nias he ניאס hi नियास id Pulau Nias id Nias it Isola di Nias
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
315526552
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85091708
GND ID
4042043-7
Australian War Memorial ID
PL544009
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12063794h
Biblissima authority ID
Stockholm Bromma Airport
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Nias
Freebase ID
/m/04v1kj
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2689400
GeoNames ID
1214404
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
nias
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0045941
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Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Nias
Island code of Indonesia
12.00.40004
J9U entity ID
987007531443405171
Lex ID
Nias
Museum-digital place ID
24757
NL CR AUT ID
ge396027
Quora topic ID
Nias-Island
RKD thesaurus ID
46833
SVKKL authority ID
0349783-Nias-Nias-ostrov
Topic's main category
Category:Nias
Wellcome Collection concept ID
j4augnzw
Who's on First ID
102018413
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Island", "Nias"]
Yale LUX ID
place/64433227-0941-4058-9d93-26c091091776

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Capital 1
Gunungsitoli
Country 1
Indonesia
Different from 1
NIAS
Instance of 1
island
Located in or next to body of water 1
Indian Ocean
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
North Sumatra
Located in this place 1
balato
Located in time zone 1
UTC+07:00
Located in/on physical feature 1
Greater Sunda Islands
Location 1
Indian Ocean
People who died here 1
Erwin von Zach
← Indigenous to 1
Nias traditional house
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Indonesia
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Summary

Nias Island is an island[1].

Related Entities

Indonesia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . visitniasisland.com. visitniasisland.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . visitniasisland.com. visitniasisland.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . visitniasisland.com. visitniasisland.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #58669: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Stockholm Bromma Airport
    "Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q29863, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → island
    Topic's main category → Category:Nias
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → North Sumatra
    Width → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+40'}
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0349783-Nias-Nias-ostrov, batch #259496"
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