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Flores (other)
Flores (from Portuguese 'flowers') is an Indonesian island in the Lesser Sunda archipelago. Flores may also refer to: People *Flores (surname) Places *Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a neighborhood *Flores, Pernambuco, Brazil *Flores Island (British Columbia), Canada *Flores Canton, Costa Rica *Flores, El Petén, Guatemala, a departmental capital *Flores Costa Cuca, Guatemala *Flores Sea, Indonesia *Flores, Los Santos, Panama *Flores Island (Azores), Portugal *Flores Department, Uruguay *Isla de Flores, Uruguayan island Other uses *Flores (company), a company in Serbia *Flores (TransMilenio), a bus station in Bogotá, Colombia *Flores (Mexibús, Line 4), a bus station in Tecámac, Mexico *Flores (song), "Flores" (song), a song by Brazilian band Titãs *Flores (Sophia song), "Flores" (Sophia song), a song by Brazilian artist Sophia *''Reno v. Flores'', a 1993 Supreme Court of the US case also known as the Flores Settlement See also * Las Flores (other) {{disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flores
Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and the population was 1,878,875 in the 2020 Census (including various offshore islands); the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 1,897,550. The largest towns are Maumere and Ende. The name ''Flores'' is the Portuguese and Spanish word for "Flowers". Flores is located east of Sumbawa and the Komodo islands, and west of the Solor Islands and the Alor Archipelago. To the southeast is Timor. To the south, across the Sumba Strait, is Sumba island and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi. Among all islands containing Indonesian territory, Flores is the 10th most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo ( Kalimantan), Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombok, and Timor and also the 10th biggest island of Indonesia. Until the arr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
