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Bacan islands

Group of islands in Indonesia
Place archipelago Q798019

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
archipelago
Country
Indonesia, Portuguese Empire[3]
Part of
Maluku Islands[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -0.615°, 127.515°
Area
+1900[13]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[8][9][10]
Different from
Bacan Island[11]
Elevation above sea level
+78[12]
Located in or next to body of water
Molucca Sea[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
North Maluku[2]
Located in/on physical feature
Maluku Islands[6]
Name
Bacan, Bachan, Bachian, Batchian, Batjan[14][15][16][17][18]
Population
+60741[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Bachian Islands en Batchian Isalnds en Kepulauan Bacan en Batjan Eilanden en Bacan islands en Bachan Islands ar جزر باكان ar جزيرة باكان de Batjan de Bacaninseln es Bacan fi Bachan he באקאן id Kepulauan Bacan id Kepulauan Batjan id Pulau-pulau Batjan ja バカン島 ja バカン諸島 ja バチャン島 ja バチャン諸島
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Bacan Topography.png ↗
Biblissima authority ID
Jonny Evans
Freebase ID
/m/0fzzn
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2671033
GeoNames ID
1650852

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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.
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🔗 Connections
Country 2
Indonesia, Portuguese Empire
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Has these parts 2
Bacan Island, Kasiruta Island
Different from 1
Bacan Island
Instance of 1
archipelago
Located in or next to body of water 1
Molucca Sea
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
North Maluku
Located in this place 1
Halmahera rain forests
Located in/on physical feature 1
Maluku Islands
Part of 1
Maluku Islands
← Depicts 1
Module:Location map/data/Indonesia Bacan
← Different from 1
Bacan Island
← Indigenous to 1
Bacanese Malay
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Summary

Bacan islands is an archipelago[1].

Related Entities

Indonesia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': -0.615, 'lon': 127.515}
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