Sumbawa

Sumbawa is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It is 15,448 km ² and has about 1,000,000 inhabitants.

Sumbawa is part of the Indonesian province of Nusa Tenggara Barat. The western part of the island is called Sumbawa Besar Semawa with the main town. The eastern part is Bima Bima - Raba with the main town.

Location

The center of the island is located at 9 ° South and 118 ° East. Sumbawa is about 280 km long, 90 km wide, extends in an east-west direction and covers an area of 15,000 km ². To the west of the island of Lombok Sumbawa and Flores to the east lies in between are still the smaller islands of Komodo and Rinca. To the south is the Savu Sea, extends to the island of Sumba, in the north of the Floressee.

To Sumbawa spread many smaller islands. In the north of the western part the large and the small Moyo Medang and Satonda is. South-east of it, in the bay Teluk Saleh, lie Liang, Ngali and Rakiti. In the north- east is the large Sangeang. In the north- west are the small islands concern Panjang, Saringi and Airtawar. In the east there is the islet Kelapa.

Provincial nature

The island is mountainous, covered with steppe and scrubland and roughly divided into three parts: a western and eastern part a, which are connected by a narrow isthmus, and an projecting into the northern peninsula with the 2850 m high volcano Tambora. Numerous bays dominate the coastline. The outbreak of Tamboras in 1815 had global implications.

In the western district of Sumbawa we speak Bahasa Semawa, on the other hand Bima is spoken in the eastern Bahasa Bima. Both languages ​​are very different.

Administrative divisions

Sumbawa consists of four regencies ( kabupaten ) and one city ( kota ):