Everything you need to know about Timor-Leste
Explore Timor-Leste from Dili’s waterfront and Atauro’s reefs to coffee-growing highlands, Oecusse and the eastern plateau. Place sixteen cities and towns, discover fourteen sights, read ten illustrated topics and begin Portuguese.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Timor-Leste
Eastern Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse and islands across deep northern straits.
Know the shape of the country
Locate sixteen cities, towns and smaller settlements across the main territory, Oecusse and Atauro. Pins represent approximate settlement centres, not municipal boundaries. Zoom in around the central mountain towns.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Monument
Cristo Rei of Dili
The Cristo Rei statue overlooks the sea from Cape Fatucama. Inaugurated in 1996 during Indonesian rule, it is now one of Dili’s most familiar landmarks. The pin marks the monument, not the beginning of the staircase or a swimming location.
Discover fourteen places across Dili, Atauro, Oecusse and the mountains and coasts of eastern Timor. Pins mark representative learning locations, not entrances or routes. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Portuguese with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
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