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The mayor of Bandung was unable to solve the problem and the governor of West Java was forced to search for new garbage dumpsites. Fortunately the problem is solved now. [citation needed] Today, Bandung has grown beyond its city core with the Bandung Raya plan. Traffic in Bandung is infamous with its complex, congested and chaotic nature. [14]
Bandung [a] is the capital city of the West Java province of Indonesia. [9] Located on the island of Java, Greater Bandung (Bandung Basin Metropolitan Area / BBMA) is third-most populous city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya and the country's second-largest and second most populous metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants.
Bandung Institute of Technology traces its origin to the Technische Hoogeschool te Bandoeng (THB) which was founded during the centuries-old Dutch colonialism of Indonesia. The project was founded by Karel Albert Rudolf Bosscha , a German-Dutch entrepreneur and philanthropist.
However, it was Nederlandsche Zendelings Vereeniging (NZV) that sent their missionaries to convert the Sundanese peoples. They started the mission in Batavia, later expanding into several towns in West Java such as Bandung, Cianjur, Cirebon, Bogor and Sukabumi. They built schools, churches and hospitals for native people in West Java.
West Java (Indonesian: Jawa Barat, Sundanese: ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized: Jawa Kulon) is an Indonesian province on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten and the country's capital region of Jakarta to the west, the Java Sea to the north, the ...
West Bandung Regency (Kabupaten Bandung Barat) is a landlocked regency of West Java. It was established on 2 January 2007, having been formerly part of Bandung Regency . The capital of this new regency is Ngamprah , an industrial district on the west side of Bandung .
Population density of Java and Madura by subdistrict as of 2022, with major urban areas shown. The Bandung Metropolitan area was officially defined as covering Bandung Regency and West Bandung Regency (which until 2007 was part of Bandung Regency), plus part (5 districts [6]) of Sumedang Regency, together with the cities of Bandung and Cimahi.
Lake Bandung (Sundanese: Situ Hiang) was a prehistoric lake located in and around the city of Bandung, Parahyangan highlands, West Java, Indonesia. believed to exist between 126,000 and 20,000 BCE in the Pleistocene due to the violent eruption of Mount Sunda that blocked the Citarum River, causing the lowlands to begin to be inundated with water, eventually forming a lake.