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Yapen Island

island in Yapen Islands Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia
Landform island Q1323436
Yapen Island
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Facts

11 properties
Instance of
island
Country
Indonesia[4]
Part of
Schouten Islands[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -1.757°, 136.157°
Area
+2278, +20265.7918[11][12]
Elevation above sea level
+1496, +313[9][10]
Length
+160[8]
Located in or next to body of water
Cenderawasih Bay[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Yapen Islands, Papua[2][3]
Name
Yapen, Japen, Sorenarwa, Japen, Yapen[13][14][15]
Native label
Pulau Yapen[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Yapen Island en Jobi en Pulau Yapen en Sorenarwa en Sorenarwa Island en Japen en Japen Island ar جزيرة يابن cs Yapen de Japen el Γιάπεν he יאפן id Pulau Japen id Pulau Sorenarwa id Pulau Yapen id Yapen ja ヤーペン島 ja ヤペン島 nl Yapen ru Япен
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Sorenarwa-Island
Freebase ID
/m/05x1c5
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2679812, -2703473
GeoNames ID
1642777, 1621240
Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID
14192
Island code of Indonesia
91.05.40138
OpenStreetMap relation ID
9846020
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Island", "Yapen"]

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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Papua, Yapen Islands
← Taxon range 2
Northern Cassowary, Wattled Brushturkey
Country 1
Indonesia
Instance of 1
island
Located in or next to body of water 1
Cenderawasih Bay
Located in this place 1
Yapen rain forests
Part of 1
Schouten Islands
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Summary

Yapen Island is an island[1].

Related Entities

Indonesia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → island
    Part of → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1496'}, {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+313'}
    Local thumb → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Island", "Yapen"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257262|batch #257262]]"
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