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The Maluku Islands (/ m ə ˈ l uː k uː, m æ ˈ l uː k uː / mə-LOO-koo, mal-OO-; Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ k ə z / mə-LUK-əz) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone.
The regencies and cities, with their administrative capitals, are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census [4] and at the 2020 census, [5] together with the official estimates for mid 2023. [1] The table also includes the numbers of districts (kecamatan) and villages (urban kelurahan and rural desa) in each city or ...
The South Moluccas are a group of islands within Indonesia claimed by the Republic of South Maluku. ... This page was last edited on 25 March 2024, at 11:39 (UTC).
The Maluku Islands (formerly the Moluccas) are a group of islands within Indonesia. The region is administered under two provinces: Maluku and North Maluku . Major islands in the province of North Maluku
Moluccans are the Austronesian and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Eastern Indonesia. The region was historically known as the Spice Islands, [4] and today consists of two Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. As such, "Moluccans" is used as a blanket term for the various ...
The provincial capital is Sofifi, mostly part of the city of Tidore Islands on the largest island of Halmahera, while the largest city is the island city of Ternate. The population of North Maluku was 1,038,087 in the 2010 census, [ 4 ] making it one of the least-populous provinces in Indonesia, but by the 2020 Census the population had risen ...
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Morotai was generally within the sphere of influence of the powerful sultanate on the island of Ternate.It was the core of a larger region, called Moro, that included the island and the coastline of Halmahera closest to Morotai to the south.
Ternate, also known as the City of Ternate, is the city with the largest population in the province of North Maluku and an island in the Maluku Islands, Indonesia. It was the de facto provincial capital of North Maluku before Sofifi on the nearby coast of Halmahera became the capital in 2010.