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It has a nearly round shape with the diameter varying between 11 and 18 km (6.8 and 11.2 mi) and giving an average value of 15 km (9.3 mi). [ 5 ] [ 14 ] The shores are winding and contain many small bays; there are many small sandy islands ( noko ), rocks and coral reefs off the coast with the size up to 600 m (2,000 ft). [ 3 ]
From Tambo, folklore, or historical accounts of nearby Minangkabau nagaris in Batipuh, X Koto and XI Koto, the area that is now known as Padang Panjang was a vast land called "Tanah Padang Nan Panjang Sari Menanti" (Long Plain Land that is beautiful and awaiting for people to come). The plain was a savanna filled with tall weeds; thus, it was ...
With this value for R the meridian length of 1 degree of latitude on the sphere is 111.2 km (69.1 statute miles) (60.0 nautical miles). The length of one minute of latitude is 1.853 km (1.151 statute miles) (1.00 nautical miles), while the length of 1 second of latitude is 30.8 m or 101 feet (see nautical mile).
Nusa Kambangan [a] is an island located in Indonesia, separated by a narrow strait from the south coast of Java.The closest port is Cilacap in Central Java province. It is known as the place where the fabled wijayakusuma, which translates as the 'flower of victory' in the highest literary register of the Javanese language, grows.
It covers an area of 710.11 km 2, of which a high percentage (27%) [2] is still forest; thus it is the smallest (by area) of the province's regencies. It had a population of 124,865 at the 2010 Census [ 3 ] and 149,298 at the 2020 Census; [ 4 ] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 154,651 (comprising 79,579 males and 75,072 females). [ 1 ]
The term Nusantara derives from a combined two words of Austronesian and Sanskrit origin, the word nūsa (see also nusa) meaning "island" in Old Javanese, is ultimately derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word *nusa with the same meaning, [12] and the word antara is a Javanese loanword borrowed from Sanskrit अन्तरा (antarā) meaning "between" or "in the middle", [13] thus ...
The project included the 1.3-km Sultan Yusuf Bridge FT5, the longest bridge along the Federal Route 5. Before the bridge was built, villagers from the opposite of the Perak River such as Telok Selandang and Kampung Lekir had to use a river ferry service operated by a nearby oil palm estate. [ 23 ]
Tanah Merah District (meaning Red Land or Laterite, Kelantanese: Tanoh Meghoh) is a district (jajahan) in the state of Kelantan in northeast Peninsular Malaysia. The urban area of Tanah Merah is situated along the Kelantan River .