Praya
Praya is the capital town of Central Lombok Regency on Lombok Island in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. It has an area of 61.26 square kilometres and a population of 125,890 people at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 132,684.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 35,200 residents
- Description: district in Central Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Praja”, “Praya District”, “Praya, Central Lombok”, and “Praya, Lombok”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Praya.
Praya
Town
Praya was a term used in 19th-century Hong Kong to refer to a promenade by the waterfront. The name comes from the Portuguese word praia, which means "beach," but in China it came to mean a stone-faced waterfront road.
Praya
- Categories: district of Indonesia and capital of regency
- Location: South Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Praya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برايا لومبوك”
- Balinese: “Praya, Lombok Tengah”
- Betawi: “Praya, Lombok Tenga”
- Cebuano: “Praya”
- Dutch: “Praya”
- French: “Praya”
- German: “Praya”
- Indonesian: “Kecamatan Praya”
- Indonesian: “Kota Praya”
- Indonesian: “Praya, Lombok Tengah”
- Indonesian: “Praya”
- Irish: “Praya”
- Japanese: “プラヤ”
- Javanese: “Praya, Lombok Tengah”
- Malagasy: “Praya”
- Malay: “Praya, Lombok Tengah”
- Russian: “Прая”
- Slovenian: “Praya”
- Spanish: “Praya”
- Swedish: “Praya, Indonesien”
- Swedish: “Praya”
- Ukrainian: “Прая”
- “Praya”
- “Praya, Lombok Tengah”
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