Jambi

American  

[jahm-bee] / ˈdʒɑm bi /

Or Djambi

noun

1. a province on southeastern Sumatra, in western Indonesia.

2. Formerly Telanaipura.  a river port in and the capital of this province.

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Jambi British  

/ ˈdʒæmbɪ /

noun

1. Also called: Telanaipura.  Former spelling: Djambi.  a port in W Indonesia, in SE Sumatra on the Hari River. Pop: 417 507 (2000)

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Jambi

A long-running experiment led by Göttingen University, Germany, and including the IPB University, Bogor and Jambi University in Indonesia, has investigated how ecological restoration promotes biodiversity recovery in oil palm plantations in Sumatra.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

A woman in Indonesia's Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, according to local reports.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022

To meet criteria for a round-the-world flight, Rutherford touched two points opposite each other on the globe: Jambi in Indonesia and Tumaco in Colombia.

From Reuters ● Jan. 20, 2022

Actor John Paragon, who brought Jambi the Genie to life on the children’s series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” has died at age 66.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021

Page 105 1 Achen is at the northwest extremity of Sumatra, and Jambi is a state in the northeast part of the same island.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson