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Tanjungbalai [fn 1], also colloquially written as Tanjung Balai, is a city in North Sumatra province, Indonesia, on the estuary of the Asahan River.It has an area of 60.52 square kilometers (23.37 sq mi) and the sixth largest kota (urban) population in North Sumatra with 154,445 inhabitants in the 2010 census [2] and 176,027 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was ...
Government office in Tanjung Balai city. The island's main city is Tanjung Balai Karimun. As at the 2020 Census, the regency of Karimun had a population of 253,457 with the majority of the people living in Great Karimun. Notable landmarks on the island include Mount Jantan, the beaches of Pelawan and Pongkar, and the Pongkar Waterfall.
This area includes Batam city and its surrounding areas such as Tanjung Pinang city, Bintan Regency, and Karimun Regency. This region of the Riau Islands Province near the Strait of Malacca includes one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. It has an area of 3,432 square kilometres (1,325 sq mi), and in 2023 it had an estimated population ...
Borobudur is the single most visited tourist attraction in Indonesia. [17]Both nature and culture are major components of Indonesian tourism.The natural heritage can boast a unique combination of a tropical climate, a vast archipelago of 17,508 islands, 6,000 of them being inhabited, [18] the second longest shoreline in the world (54,716 km) after Canada. [19]
Balai, is the main town at the southern end of the Great Karimun Island (Pulau Karimunbesar), part of the Karimun Regency within the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia. It is often called Tanjung Balai Karimun to distinguish it from Tanjungbalai (city) , situated in the Asahan Regency .
The most notable beaches for tourism in Aceh are located to the northern tip of the province, near the archipelago of Sabang, the capital city of Banda Aceh and the northern regency of Aceh Besar. [11] Normally formed in a bay area, many beaches contains the word Lhok, Acehnese for "bay".
A tourist destination is a city, town, or other area that is significantly dependent on revenues from tourism, or "a country, state, region, city, or town which is marketed or markets itself as a place for tourists to visit". [13] It may contain one or more tourist attractions and possibly some "tourist traps".
Tanjung Balau is a beach town in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia. In April 2019, Johor Marine Department detected an oil spill off the coast of Tanjung Balau, covering 4 mautical miles from an estimated 300 tonnes of spilled marine fuel oil.