Tereweng Island

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Tereweng
Native name:
Pulau Tereweng
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Tereweng
Geography
Location Southeast Asia
Coordinates 8°28′36″S124°16′54″E / 8.47659°S 124.2818°E / -8.47659; 124.2818
Archipelago Alor Archipelago
Adjacent to Pantar Strait  [ ceb; id ]
Area4.04 km2 (1.56 sq mi)
Highest elevation373 m (1224 ft)
Administration
Province East Nusa Tenggara
Regency Alor
District East Pantar  [ id ]
Village Treweng  [ id ]
Demographics
Population920 (2024) [1]
Pop. density245.99/km2 (637.11/sq mi)
Languages Indonesian (official)
Tereweng, Alorese, and Alor Malay (regional)
Ethnic groupsTereweng
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Tereweng Island is an island in Indonesia which is administratively part of Alor Regency. [2] Located in the province of East Nusa Tenggara, in the southeastern part of the country, it is 1,900 km east of Jakarta, the country's capital. The island covers an area of 4.04 square kilometers.

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The landscape of Tereweng Island is quite hilly. [a] The highest point on the island is 373 meters above sea level. Its area reaches 2.4 km from north to south and 2.7 km from east to west. [b]

The following are natural features that can be found on Tereweng Island:

Demographics

Tereweng Island is included in the scope of Treweng  [ id ] village which is divided into 4 Rukun Warga (RT) and 8 Rukun Tetangga (RW). Its population was 920 people in 2024 with a density of 245.99/km2. [1]

Tereweng, a Papuan language, is the native language spoken by the inhabitants of Tereweng Island, known as the Tereweng people. [4] They also speak Alorese, Alor Malay, and Indonesian. [5] Most of the Tereweng people are Muslim. [6]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Calculated from elevation data (DEM 3") from Viewfinder Panoramas. [3] The full algorithm is available here.
  2. ↑ Calculated from elevation data (DEM 3") from Viewfinder Panoramas. [3] The full algorithm is available here.

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Situmorang, Mangiring (26 September 2025). Raudhatunnisa, Tsasya (ed.). "Kecamatan Pantar Timur Dalam Angka 2025" (PDF). alorkab.bps.go.id (in Indonesian). Catalogue: 1102001.5307012. Publication Number: 53070.25011. Central Statistics Agency of Alor Regency. pp. 1–47. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  2. ↑ Pulau Tereweng sa GeoNames.Org (cc-by); post updated 2012-11-08; database downloaded on 2015-11-27.
  3. 1 2 "Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model". 21 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Djawa, Alex; Sanga, Felysianus; Tans, Felix; Nai, Firmina A.; Pada, Hendrina (2019). "Pemetaan Bahasa di Pulau Alor". Jurnal Lazuardi (in Indonesian). 2 (2) (2nd ed.). Kupang: Nusa Cendana University: 171–185. doi: 10.53441/jl.Vol2.Iss2.6 .
  5. ↑ Klamer, Marion (2014). "The Alor-Pantar languages: Linguistic context, history and typology.". In Klamer, Marian (ed.). Alor Pantar languages: History and Typology. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. pp. 5–53. doi: 10.17169/FUDOCS_document_000000020993 . ISBN   9783944675602.
  6. ↑ Gomang, Syarifuddin R. (2006). "Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania". Muslim and Christian alliances: ‘Familial relationships’ between inland and coastal peoples of the Belagar community in eastern Indonesia (PDF). Vol. 162 (4). Leiden: Leiden University. pp. 468–489. doi: 10.1163/22134379-90003663 .


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