Raam, also spelt Ram, is an island in

Southwest Papua Southwest Papua ( id, Papua Barat Daya) is a province of Indonesia, and is a fraction of Western New Guinea. Despite being named southwest, it is a misnomer and this province is actually located in the northwest edge of Papua. The area that belo ...

province of Indonesia, located off the northwestern tip of the

Bird's Head Peninsula The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: ''Kepala Burung'', nl, Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai''), is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces o ...

of New Guinea. It lies at a distance of about from the coast of the city of

Sorong Sorong is the largest city and the capital of the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua. The city is located on the western tip of the island of New Guinea with its only land borders being with Sorong Regency. It is the gateway to Indonesia's ...

(of which it is administratively part), and about north of the islands of

Doom Doom is another name for damnation. Doom may also refer to: People * Doom (professional wrestling), the tag team of Ron Simmons and Butch Reed * Daniel Doom (born 1934), Belgian cyclist * Debbie Doom (born 1963), American softball pitcher * L ...

and Soop (or Tsiof). About long and up to wide, Raam has an area of . Occupying the eastern half of the island is a settlement with a population of 2,078 (as of mid 2021), which forms a ''

kelurahan In Indonesia, village or subdistrict is the fourth-level subdivision below a district, regency/city, and province. There are a number of names and types for villages in Indonesia, with ''desa'' (rural village) being the most frequently used for re ...

'' within the district of

Sorong Islands Sorong is the largest city and the capital of the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua. The city is located on the western tip of the island of New Guinea with its only land borders being with Sorong Regency. It is the gateway to Indonesia's ...

in the City of Sorong.

Bibliography

* * * Penutupan Lahan 2011 (available a
WebGIS Kehutanan
, a land cover dataset *{{Cite book, title = Sailing directions (enroute) : New Guinea, year = 2018, publisher = National Geospatial-intelligence Agency, url = https://msi.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/SD/Pub164/Pub164bk.pdf, page = 112 Sorong Islands of Western New Guinea