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Mount Tambora is a Composite volcano located on a small island in Indonesia called Sumbawa. Mount Tambora used to rise 13,000 feet above the ground, but after the eruption in 1815 a 4,000 foot chunk of the mountain blew off of the top. At the moment it is 9,350 feet tall (2,850 meters.) Some of the towns near Mount Tambora are, Jakarta (the capital of Indonesia.) with a population of about 8,792,000, Bandung with a population of over 2,000,000, Semarang holding about 1,500,000 and Surabaya containing 2,599,796 people.