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Sumba Island

island in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
Landform Island Q206368

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
island

Location

Country
Indonesia[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -9.728°, 120.001°
Continent
Asia[4]
Located in or next to body of water
Indian Ocean[3]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
East Nusa Tenggara[1]
Located in/on physical feature
Lesser Sunda Islands[6]

Population and size

Area
+10711, +891.932[12][13]
Elevation above sea level
+604[11]
Population
+611422[7]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 611,422 GeoNames 686,113 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +4
Part of
Lesser Sunda Islands[5]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8]
Different from
Sumba (disambiguation), Sumba Island[9][10]
Name
Sumba, Sandelhout[14][15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Tjendana en Сумба en Pulau Sumba en Sandalwood en Sandelhout Eiland en Soemba en Sumba en Sumba Island ar جزيرة سومبا el Σούμπα fa سومبا fr Soemba he סומבה (אינדונזיה) hi पुलाउ सुम्बा hi सुम्बा id Pulau Sumba id Sumba it isola Sumba it Sumba ja スンバ島
🔖 Identifiers · 22
VIAF cluster ID
315129126
GND ID
4058587-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Waingapu.JPG ↗
Biblissima authority ID
Leopard Epaulette Shark
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
2OZo6q
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
559303
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Sumba
Freebase ID
/m/06ml0
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2698120
GeoNames ID
2056940
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
sumba
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0064552
Show all 22 identifiers +10
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4173170
Island code of Indonesia
53.00.40011
J9U entity ID
987007548501705171
Museum-digital place ID
24926
NL CR AUT ID
ge926884
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3981301
OpenStreetMap relation ID
7219484
Topic's main category
Category:Sumba
WWF ecoregion code
AA0203
Yale LUX ID
place/a583e097-61f1-4396-a0dd-d79ebfc98f42
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Makassar 2026-09-26 T/ISL · ID GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
← Endemic to 10
Sumba Hornbill, Sumba Green Pigeon, Red-naped Fruit Dove, Sumba Boobook, Little Sumba Hawk-Owl, Sumba Buttonquail, Apricot-breasted Sunbird, Sumba Brown Flycatcher +2 more
Located in this place 2
Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park, Anakalang
Contained subdivisions 1
Sumbanese traditional house
Continent 1
Asia
Country 1
Indonesia
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
Sumba (disambiguation)
Instance of 1
island
Located in or next to body of water 1
Indian Ocean
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
East Nusa Tenggara
Located in/on physical feature 1
Lesser Sunda Islands
Named after 1
HNLMS Soemba
Part of 1
Lesser Sunda Islands
Topic's main category 1
Category:Sumba
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Sumba
← Depicts 1
Module:Location map/data/Indonesia Sumba
← FactGrid item ID 1
Howden
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Indonesia
← Narrative location 1
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
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Sumba Island is an island.[1][2] It is located in East Nusa Tenggara.[1][2][3] It is in Indonesia.[1]

It has a population of 611k. It has an area of 11k..

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Sumba Island include HNLMS Soemba[16], a gunboat[17].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Sumba Island include HNLMS Soemba[16], a gunboat[17].

Related Entities

Indonesia

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [1] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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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. 16w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Leopard Epaulette Shark
    "Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q28711, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
  2. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Sumba
    Continent → Asia
    Coordinate location → -9.728°, 120.001°
    Part of → Lesser Sunda Islands
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
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