Oecusse

Oecusse
Municipality and
Special Administrative Region
  • Região Administrativa Especial Oé-Cusse Ambeno (Portuguese)
  • Oecussi Ambeno (Tetum)
Mountains in Oecusse.jpg
Mountains in Oecusse in 2015
Flag of Oecusse
Official seal of Oecusse
Map of East Timor highlighting the Municipality
   Oecusse in    East Timor
OpenStreetMap
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Coordinates: 09°21′S 124°18′E / 9.350°S 124.300°E / -9.350; 124.300
Sovereign state East Timor
CapitalPante Macassar
Government
 • President of the SAR Oecusse-AmbenoRogério Lobato (Fretilin)
Area
 • Total813.6 km2 (314.1 sq mi)
 • Rank8th
Population
 (Census of 15 October 2022)
 • Total80,685
 • Rank6th
 • Density99/km2 (260/sq mi)
  • Rank4th
Households (2015 census)
 • Total14,345
 • Rank6th
Time zoneUTC+09:00 (TLT)
ISO 3166 codeTL-OE
HDI (2017)0.553[1]
medium · 13th

Oecusse,[a] also known as Oecusse-Ambeno (Portuguese: Oé-Cusse Ambeno; Tetum: Oecussi Ambeno) and formerly just Ambeno, officially the Special Administrative Region Oecusse-Ambeno (Portuguese: Região Administrativa Especial Oé-Cusse Ambeno), is an exclave, municipality (formerly a district) and the only Special Administrative Region (SAR) of East Timor.

Located on the north coast of the western portion of Timor, Oecusse is separated from the rest of East Timor by West Timor, Indonesia, which is part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara. West Timor surrounds Oecusse on all sides except the north, where the exclave faces the Savu Sea.

The capital of Oecusse is Pante Macassar, also called Oecussi Town, or formerly, in Portuguese Timor, Vila Taveiro. Originally Ambeno was the name of the former district and Oecussi its capital.[2]

  1. ^ "Sub-national HDI – Area Database – Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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