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Halmahera Island

island in North Maluku Province, Indonesia
Landform island Q201398

Facts

22 properties
Instance of
island, volcanic island[7]
Country
Indonesia[3]
Location
Halmahera rain forests[8]
Part of
Maluku Islands[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 0.698°, 127.841°
Area
+17780[19]
Continent
Asia[6]
Coordinates of easternmost point
🗺️ 0.208°, 128.903°
Coordinates of northernmost point
🗺️ 2.221°, 127.955°
Coordinates of southernmost point
🗺️ -0.914°, 128.452°
Coordinates of westernmost point
🗺️ 1.064°, 127.397°
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13][14][15]
Elevation above sea level
+1635, +985[17][18]
Highest point
Mount Gamkonora[10]
Length
+366[16]
Located in or next to body of water
Halmahera Sea, Molucca Sea[4][5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
North Maluku[2]
Located in/on physical feature
Maluku Islands[11]
Name
Halmahera, Halmahera[21]
P14541
27fBfX[22]
Population
+180000[12]
Width
+159[20]
🏷️ Also known as
en Halmahera en Halmahera Island en Jailolo en Khal'makhera en Jilolo en Almahera en Djailolo en Gilolo ar هالماهيرا ar هلما هيرا ar هلماهيرا de Gilolo el Χαλμαχέρα es Gilolo fa هالماهرا fr Gilolo he האלמאהרה hi हालमाहेरा id Halmahera id Pulau Halmahera
🔖 Identifiers · 24
VIAF cluster ID
24144647637442203518
GND ID
4023062-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia 4.jpg ↗
Biblissima authority ID
Xerochrysum papillosum
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
559307
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Halmahera
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
halmahera
Freebase ID
/m/02pklw
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2678976
GeoNames ID
1643476
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1007331
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
halmahera
Show all 24 identifiers +12
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0032049
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Halmahera
Island code of Indonesia
82.00.40001
Lex ID
Halmahera
Museum-digital place ID
24756
NDL Authority ID
00628956
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4097656
Topic's main category
Category:Halmahera
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10036962
Who's on First ID
102020475
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Island", "Halmahera"]
Yale LUX ID
place/898660bb-fb6a-4d46-b5ca-027b4e94f345

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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Jayapura 2026-09-26 T/ISL · ID GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
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.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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.
🔗 Connections
← Endemic to 10
Standardwing Bird-of-paradise, Invisible Rail, Accipiter henicogrammus, Blue-capped Fruit Dove, Cinnamon-bellied Imperial Pigeon, Grey-headed Fruit Dove, Sombre Kingfisher, Halmaheramys bokimekot +2 more
← Located in/on physical feature 4
Indonesia, Dukono, Mount Gamkonora, Mount Ibu
Located in or next to body of water 2
Molucca Sea, Halmahera Sea
Belongs to 1
Maluku Islands
Continent 1
Asia
Country 1
Indonesia
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Highest point 1
Mount Gamkonora
Instance of 1
island
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
Location 1
Halmahera rain forests
Named after 1
Tropidonophis halmahericus
Part of 1
Maluku Islands
Topic's main category 1
Category:Halmahera
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Halmahera
← Depicts 1
Module:Location map/data/Indonesia Halmahera
← FactGrid item ID 1
Coln Rogers
← Indigenous to 1
Ternate
← Taxon range 1
Cream-throated White-eye
← Via 1
Loaysa Expedition
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Summary

Halmahera Island is an island[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Halmahera Island include Tropidonophis halmahericus[23], a taxon[24].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Tropidonophis halmahericus[23], a taxon[24].

Related Entities

Indonesia

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 of 2022. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Xerochrysum papillosum
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q28707, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 27fBfX
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 25w ago · ToscaHardy · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → North Maluku
    Location → Halmahera rain forests
    Coordinates of easternmost point → {'lat': 0.20777777777777778, 'lon': 128.90333333333334}
    Image unavailable reason → —
    + 30 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: volcanic island"
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