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West Sumatra (Indonesian: Sumatera Barat [7]) is a province of Indonesia.It is on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast. West Sumatra borders the Indian Ocean to the west, as well as the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau to the northeast, Jambi to the southeast, and Bengkulu to the south.
Nias (Indonesian: Pulau Nias, Nias: Tanö Niha) is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.Nias is also the name of the archipelago (Kepulauan Nias) of which the island is the centre, but also includes the Batu Islands to the southeast and the small Hinako Islands to the west.
Sumatra [a] (/ s ʊ ˈ m ɑː t r ə /) is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km 2 (182,812 mi. 2), including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, Enggano, Riau Islands, Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago.
In Indonesia, South Sumatra is the largest producer of rubber, estimated at over 940,000 tons of production in 2016, [88] and over 850,000 tons of rubber were exported from Palembang in the same year. [84] In 2014, there were 14 rubber processing factories in the city employing 4,000 people with a capacity of close to a million tons annually. [89]
Bukittinggi used to be known as Fort de Kock and was once dubbed as ' Parijs van Sumatera '. The city was the capital of Indonesia during the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PDRI). Before it became the capital of PDRI, the city was a centre of government at the time of the Dutch East Indies and during the Japanese colonial ...
Solok (means valley) is a city in West Sumatra, Indonesia.The motto of this city is Kota Beras which is an abbreviation of "Bersih, Elok, Rapi, Aman dan Sejahtera". It has an area of 58.72 km 2 (0.14 percent of the area of West Sumatra), a population of 59,396 at the 2010 Census, [2] and 73,438 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid-2023 was 77,842 - comprising 39,239 males ...
Mandailing Natal, a.k.a. Madina, is a regency in North Sumatra Province of Indonesia.It covers an area of 6,620.70 square kilometres and it had a population of 403,894 people at the 2010 census [2] and 472,886 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 496,975 (comprising 247,811 males and 249,164 females). [1]
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] 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 Guinea .