Kurudu Island is an island which lies east of
Yapen Island
Yapen (also Japan, Jobi) is an island of Papua, Indonesia. The Yapen Strait separates Yapen and the Biak Islands to the north. It is in Cenderawasih Bay off the north-western coast of the island of New Guinea. To the west is Mios Num Island a ...
in
Cenderawasih Bay
Cenderawasih Bay ( id, Teluk Cenderawasih, "Bird of Paradise Bay"), also known as Sarera Bay ( id, Teluk Sarera) and formerly Geelvink Bay ( nl, Geelvinkbaai), is a large bay in northern Province of Papua, Central Papua and West Papua, New Guine ...
, lying off the north coast of
Papua Province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 21.49 km
2 and had a population of 1,585 at the 2020 Census.
[Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.] Administratively, the island forms a district (''distrik'') within the
Yapen Islands Regency
Yapen Islands Regency is a regency (''kabupaten'') in Papua Province of eastern Indonesia. It covers an area of , and had a population of 82,951 at the 2010 Census and 112,676 at the 2020 Census. The official estimate as at mid 2021 was 114,210. I ...
, and is sub-divided into 8 villages (''desa'') of which the administrative centre is Kirimbri. Its inhabitants speak the
Kurudu language, one of the
Yapen languages.
References
Yapen Islands
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