Tambora may refer to:

Music

* Tambora (drum), different types of percussion instruments * Tambour (guitar technique) can also be spelled tambora

Geography

Mount Tambora Mount Tambora, or Tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Located on Sumbawa in the Lesser Sunda Islands, it was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it. Before 1815, its elevation reached more than ...

, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa **The

1815 eruption of Mount Tambora Mount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, then part of the Dutch East Indies, and its 1815 eruption was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history. This volcanic explosivity index (VEI) 7 ...

Tambora culture Tambora is a lost village and culture on Sumbawa, Sumbawa Island buried by volcanic ash and pyroclastic flows from the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The village had about 10,000 residents. Scientists une ...

, a village and associated culture on Sumbawa, destroyed by the 1815 eruption **

Tambora language Tambora is the poorly attested non- Austronesian ( Papuan) language of the Tambora culture of central Sumbawa, in what is now Indonesia, that was wiped out by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. It was the westernmost known Papuan language an ...

, the associated language *

Tambora, Jakarta Tambora is a Subdistricts of Indonesia, subdistrict of West Jakarta, Indonesia. Tambora Subdistrict is bounded by a railway to the west and to the north, Kali Krukut - Kali Besar canal to the east, and Duri Selatan Road to the south. The Roa M ...

, a subdistrict of West Jakarta *

Tumbura Tumbura, sometimes spelled Tambora or Tambura, is a town in South Sudan. Location The town is located in Tambura County, Western Equatoria, in the western part of South Sudan, near the International borders with the Democratic Republic of the Con ...

, a town in South Sudan

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