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North Maluku (Indonesian: Maluku Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It covers the northern part of the Maluku Islands , bordering the Pacific Ocean to the north, the Halmahera Sea to the east, the Molucca Sea to the west, and the Seram Sea to the south.
Maluku is one of the first provinces of Indonesia, proclaimed in 1945 and lasting until 1999 when the Maluku Utara and Halmahera Tengah Regencies were split off as a separate province of North Maluku. Its capital used to be Ternate, on a small island to the west of the large island of Halmahera, but has been moved to Sofifi on Halmahera itself.
Early map of northern Maluku made during the Age of Discovery. North is on the right, with Ternate as the rightmost followed by Tidore, Mare, Moti and Makian islands. The bottom is the Gilolo (Jailolo or Halmahera) Island. The inset on the top is Bacan Island. Willem Blaeu, 1630 Colonial-era painting of Ternate island, c. 1883–1889.
Module:Location map/data/Indonesia North Maluku is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of North Maluku. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Maluku Province is the south part of the Maluku Islands (that part south of the Seram Sea on this map). Ambon Island; Aru Islands (Kepulauan Aru) Banda Islands (Kepulauan Banda) Buru Island, including offshore Ambelau Island; Kai Islands (Kepulauan Kai) Gorong archipelago (Pulau-pulau Gorong)
Halmahera, formerly known as Jilolo, Gilolo, or Jailolo, is the largest island in the Maluku Islands. It is part of the North Maluku province of Indonesia, and Sofifi, the capital of the province, is located on the west coast of the island. Halmahera has a land area of 17,780 km 2 (6,860 sq mi). [1]
3.6 Maluku Islands. 3.6.1 Maluku. ... The map of the Indonesian archipelago along with the names of its islands and seas, is estimated to encompass between 17,000 to ...
South Halmahera Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Halmahera Selatan) is a regency of North Maluku Province, Indonesia.It lies partly on Halmahera Island (occupying most of the southern peninsula of that island) and partly on smaller islands to the west and south of Halmahera.