This is a list of cities, towns, and villages in
East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...
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Aileu District
Aileu (, ) is a municipality, and was formerly a district, of East Timor. It has a population of 48,554 (Census 2015) and an area of 737 km². The municipality's capital is also named Aileu. Its administrative posts are Aileu, Laular ...
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Aileu
Aileu is the main township in Aileu District, East Timor. It is located 47 km (29 mi) southwest of Dili, the national capital, and had a population of 2,788 in 2015.
In Portuguese Timor, the city was known as Vila General Carmona, af ...
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Ainaro District
Ainaro (, ) is one of 13 municipalities of East Timor, in the southwest part of the country. It has a population of 59,175 (census 2010) and an area of 804 km2. Its capital is the city of Ainaro, a small mountain town.
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Ainaro
Ainaro is a town in East Timor, the capital of the Ainaro suco, the Ainaro administrative post and the Ainaro Municipality, and is located in the southwest part of the country. The town of Ainaro is located 78 km south of Dili, the nat ...
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Hato-Udo
Hato-Udo (''Hatu Udo, Hotudo''), officially Hato-Udo Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Ainaro municipality, East Timor
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Maubara
Maubara is a village in Maubara Subdistrict ( Liquiçá District, East Timor), just west of the city of Liquiçá. Most of the inhabitants speak Tocodede. It lies near the Maubara Important Bird Area, encompassing the small coastal Lake ...
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Baucau District
Baucau (, ) is a municipality, and was formerly a district, of East Timor, on the northern coast in the eastern part of the country. The capital is also called Baucau (formerly Vila Salazar). The population of the municipality is 111,694 (c ...
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Baguia
Baguia, officially Baguia Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Baucau municipality, East Timor. Its seat or administrative centre is , and it has ten sucos.
Taur Matan Ruak
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Baucau
Baucau ( pt, Baucau, tet, Baukau) is the second-largest city in East Timor, after Dili, the capital, which lies to its west.
Baucau has about 16,000 inhabitants, and is the capital of Baucau municipality, located in the eastern part of the ...
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Bucoli
Bucoli is a suco (municipality) in Baucau Subdistrict, Baucau District, East Timor and also a settlement in the Bucoli Suco. As of 2010 there were 2179 inhabitants and 372 households in Bucoli Suco. 85% in Bucoli speak the Waima'a language as ...
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Laga
Laga may refer to:
Places
* Laga (East Timor), a subdistrict of Baucau in East Timor
* Laga, Lochaber, a village on the north shore of Loch Sunart, Scotland
* Club Laga, a concert venue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1991 to 2006
People
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Macadai de Baixo
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Quelicai
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Venilale
Venilale (formerly Vila Viçosa) is a town located about 30 km south of Baucau in East Timor. It is the capital of the Venilale Administrative Post.
Tourism
Venilale has been a popular destination, even in the Portuguese colonial era, ...
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Bobonaro District
Bobonaro ( pt, Município Bobonaro, , or ) is a municipality (and was formerly a district) in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste commonly known as East Timor. It is the second-most western municipality on the east half of the island. It ...
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Atabae
Atabae is a village in the suco of Rairobo ( subdistrict Atabae, Bobonaro District, East Timor
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Balibo
Balibo is a town in East Timor situated approximately from the Indonesian border. It is located in the subdistrict of Balibo, Bobonaro District.
It was estimated by Human Rights Watch that 70 per cent of the town was destroyed during th ...
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Bobonaro
Bobonaro is a town in Bobonaro Subdistrict, Bobonaro District, East Timor., United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency The district capital is not in Bobonaro, but is in Maliana
Maliana is a city in East Timor, 149 kilomete ...
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Lolotoe
Lolotoe is a town in Bobonaro District, East Timor. It is the capital of Lolotoe subdistrict
Lolotoe, officially Lolotoe Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Bobonaro municipality, Ea ...
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Maliana
Maliana is a city in East Timor, 149 kilometers southwest of Dili, the national capital. It has a population of 22,000. It is the capital of the Districts of East Timor, district of Bobonaro District, Bobonaro and Maliana Subdistrict, and is ...
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Cova Lima District
Cova Lima (, ) is a municipalities of East Timor, municipality of East Timor, in the Southwest part of the country. It has a population of 59,455 (Census 2010) and an area of 1,230 km2. The capital of the municipality is Suai, East Timo ...
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Fatululik
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Fohoren
Fohoren is a village and suco in the subdistrict of Fohorem, Cova Lima District, East Timor.[Suai
Suai is a city in East Timor, in Suai Subdistrict. It has a population of 9,866 and is located to the southwest of Dili, the national capital. Suai is the capital of the Cova Lima District, which is in the southwest of the country. It is locat ...]
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Tilomar
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Zumalai
Zumalai is a city and subdistrict (former ''Mape-Zumalai'') in East Timor. The subdistrict has been part of Cova Lima District since 2003. Before that, it was part of Ainaro District. The Zumalai subdistrict has six main villages: Fatuleto, Rai ...
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Dili District
Dili Municipality (, ) is one of the 14 municipalities, formerly districts, of Timor-Leste, and includes the national capital Dili. The municipality had a population of 277,279 , most of whom live in the capital city. Etymology
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Dare
Dare may refer to:
Places
* Dare, East Timor, a city
* Darè, Italy, a commune
* Dare County, North Carolina, United States
* Dare, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
Name
* Dare (name), a list of people and fictional c ...
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Dili
Dili (Portuguese/Tetum: ''Díli'') is the capital, largest city of East Timor and the second largest city in Timor islands after Kupang (Indonesia). It lies on the northern coast of the island of Timor, in a small area of flat land hemmed in ...
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Metinaro
Metinaro is a town in Metinaro Subdistrict, Dili District, East Timor. The coast has a wonderful diving area with a colourful world of animals.
Metinaro is also the home of the East Timor's 1st Battalion F-FDTL ( Forças de Defesa de Tim ...
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Ermera District
Ermera (, ) is one of the municipalities (formerly districts) of East Timor, located in the west-central part of the country. It has a population of 117,064 (Census 2010) and an area of 756.5 km².
Etymology
The word ''Ermera'' means ' ...
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Atsabe
Atsabe (in ancient sources: Artessabe, Atisasabo) is a town in Atsabe Subdistrict in the Ermera District of East Timor
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Ermera
Ermera (''Vila Ermera'') is a city in East Timor and a former capital of the East Timorese community, Ermera. ''Ermera'' in Mambai means "red water." It has a population of 8,907. Its geographical coordinates are , and it lies above sea l ...
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Gleno
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Lautém District Lautém (Tetum: Lautein) is a toponym for a place eastmost in East Timor. It may refer to, from small to large:
* Lautém (city)
* Lautém Administrative Post
* Lautém Municipality
Lautém ( pt, Município Lautém, ) is one of the municip ...
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Fuiloro
Fuiloro is a suco and village on the northeastern tip of East Timor. The district capital Lospalos lies in the suco of Fuiloro.
There is an old Portuguese fort at Fuiloro village, where there is also an arched entry. At the entrance to the vil ...
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Iliomar
Iliomar, officially Iliomar Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Lautém municipality, East Timor. Its seat or administrative centre
An administrative center is a seat of regional administ ...
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Lautém
** Lore
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Lospalos
Lospalos — sometimes erroneously written as ''Los Palos'', assuming a nonexistent Spanish etymology — is a city in East Timor, to the east of Dili, the national capital. Lospalos has a population of 17,186 (2006) and is the capital of L ...
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Luro
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Tutuala
Tutuala is a village and suco in the subdistrict of Tutuala (Lautém District, East Timor). It is situated at the extreme eastern end of Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 3,707. The subdistrict of Tutuala comprises two sucos, inclu ...
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Liquiçá District
Liquiçá (Tetum: ''Likisá'') is a coastal city in East Timor, 32 km to the west of Dili, the national capital. Liquiçá is the capital of Liquiçá District. The city has a population of 5,005 inhabitants.
History
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Bazartete
Bazartete (also known as Bazar Tete) is a village located in East Timor, comprising a subdistrict of Liquiçá District, located on a mountain top deep in the rain forest, just to the southeast of Liquiçá township. The area and its surroundin ...
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Liquiçá
Liquiçá (Tetum: ''Likisá'') is a coastal city in East Timor, 32 km to the west of Dili, the national capital. Liquiçá is the capital of Liquiçá District. The city has a population of 5,005 inhabitants.
History
A part of the coloni ...
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Maubara
Maubara is a village in Maubara Subdistrict ( Liquiçá District, East Timor), just west of the city of Liquiçá. Most of the inhabitants speak Tocodede. It lies near the Maubara Important Bird Area, encompassing the small coastal Lake ...
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Manatuto District
Manatuto (, ) is one of the municipalities (formerly districts) of East Timor, located in the central part of the country. It has a population of 45,541 (Census 2010) and an area of 1,783.3 km². The capital of the municipality is also n ...
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Laclubar
Laclubar is the main locality in Laclubar Administrative Post, Manatuto Municipality, East Timor
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Laleia
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Manatuto
Manatuto is a city in Manatuto Municipality, East Timor.
Manatuto Vila has 3,692 inhabitants (Census 2015) and is capital of the subdistrict and district Manatuto. It is on the north coast of Timor, (about as the crow flies) east of Dili, t ...
3,692
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Manufahi District
Manufahi (, ) is one of the municipalities of East Timor. It has a population of 53,691 (2015 census) and an area of 1,323 km2. The capital of the municipality is Same.
Etymology
The present name of the municipality, ''Manufahi'', is ...
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Alas
''Alas!'' is an interjection used to express regret, sorrow, or grief.
Alas may also refer to:
Music
* Alas (band), progressive metal band from USA
* ALAS (band), a mid-1970s Argentine progressive rock band
Organizations
* ALAS Foundation or ''F ...
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Fatuberlio
Fatuberliu is a town in the Fatuberlio Subdistrict, Manufahi District of East Timor
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Same
Same may refer to:
*Sameness or identity
Places
* Same (Homer), an island mentioned by Homer in the ''Odyssey''
* Same (polis), an ancient city
* Same, East Timor, the capital of the Manufahi district
* Samé, Mali
* Same, Tanzania
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Turiscai
Turiscai is a village in the Turiscai administrative post, Manufahi municipality of East Timor
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Oecusse District
Oecusse (also variously ''Oecussi'', ''Ocussi'', ''Oekussi'', ''Oekusi'', ''Okusi'', ''Oé-Cusse''), also known as Oecusse-Ambeno (; ) and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative Region Oecusse-Ambeno (), is an exclave, mun ...
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Citrana
Citrana is a small town in the East Timor exclave of Oecusse Special Administrative Region. It is located in the far west of the exclave, close to the mouth of the Noel Besi River, which forms part of the border with Indonesia
Indonesia, of ...
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Nitibe
** Oe Silo
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Pante Macassar
Pante Macassar ( pt, Pante Macassar, ) is a city in the Pante Macassar Administrative Post, Pante Macassar administrative post on the north coast of East Timor, to the west of Dili, the nation's capital. It has a population of 4,730 (Stand ...
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Passabe
Passabe is a small village (sulo) in Passabe Subdistrict, near the Indonesian border. It was the site of a massacre of East Timorese by pro-Indonesia militias in the follow-up to the 1999 referendum for East Timor's independence.
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Viqueque District
Viqueque (, ) is the largest of the municipalities (formerly districts) of East Timor. It has a population of 77,402 (Census 2010) and an area of 1,877 km². The capital of the municipality is also named Viqueque.
Etymology
The word '' ...
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Lacluta
Lacluta, officially Lacluta Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Viqueque municipality, East Timor
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Ossu
** Uatolari
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Viqueque
Viqueque (, ) is a city in the south-east of East Timor, 183 km from Dili, the national capital. Viqueque is the capital of Viqueque Municipality
Viqueque (, ) is the largest of the municipalities (formerly districts) of East Ti ...
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Atauro Island
Atauro ( pt, Ilha de Ataúro, Tetum and Indonesian: ''Pulau Atauro'' or ''Ata'uro''), also known as Kambing Island ( id, Pulau Kambing), is an island and municipality ( pt, Município Ataúro, links=no, tet, Munisípiu Atauro, links=no or ) ...
** Berau
** Biquele
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East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...
East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-weste ...
Cities
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...