Explore East Timor in Oceania - East Timor Tourism Info

Description and Basic Information

East Timor with its capital Dili is located in Oceania (Southeastern Asia, northwest of Australia in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago; note - Timor-Leste includes the eastern half of the island of Timor). It covers some 15,008 square kilometres (slightly larger than Connecticut) with 1,107,000 citizens. Portuguese, Indonesian and English are the languages used by people in East Timor (consider regional differences). Indonesia is a bordering country.

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About East Timor

The topography features mountainous. The average density of population is about 73 per km². The climate in can be described as tropical with hot, humid, distinct rainy and dry seasons. Potential natural disasters are floods and landslides are common or earthquakes, tsunamis or tropical cyclones.

To reach someone in East Timor dial +670 prior to a number. There are 2,400 installed telephones. And there are 116,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".tp".

The country consists of 13 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of East Timor

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in East Timor

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in East Timor is growing at an rate of 2% (or by 23,093 citizens). Each year 0 people enter this country (or 0.00 per thousand citizens) - making it an immigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 2%. Or an total increase of 23,093 citizens.

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Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.