Breueh Island (also Pulo Breuh, Pulau Breuh, Poelau Bras, Poeloe Bras) is an island in
Pulo Aceh district,
Aceh Besar Regency
Great Aceh Regency ( id, Kabupaten Aceh Besar) is a regency of the Indonesian province of Aceh. The regency covers an area of 2,903.49 square kilometres and had a population of 351,418 at the 2010 Census and 405,535 at the 2020 Census; the offici ...
,
Aceh,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
off the northwest tip of the island of
Sumatra. It is about 18 mi west-northwest of
Banda Aceh.
The capital of Pulo Aceh,
Lampuyang, is located on Breueh.
Nearby are the islands of
Nasi
Nasi may refer to:
Food Dishes
Nasi Goreng is an Indonesian and Malay word for ''cooked rice'', featured in many Southeast Asian dishes
*Nasi goreng, a popular rice dish often simply called ''nasi''
*Other Southeast Asian ''nasi'' dishes:
**Nasi ...
,
Deudap,
Geupon,
Batee, and
Weh.
The
International Hydrographic Organization
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A principal aim of the IHO is to ensure that the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters a ...
defines the northern tip of Breueh (under the name Poeloe Bras) as the southeasternmost point of the
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and northwest by India, on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India. Its southern limit is a line betwee ...
and as part of the southwestern limit of the
Andaman Sea. To the southwest of Breueh is the open
Indian Ocean
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. The
Nicobar Islands' southernmost point is about 108 mi northwest of Breueh.
Islands of Aceh