Kudus
Kudus is the capital and the namesake of the Kudus Regency in Central Java, Indonesia. Its name has an Arabic etymology connected to its foundation by the legendary figure Sunan Kudus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: district in Kudus Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Kota Kudus”, “Kota Kudus District”, “Kudus District”, “Kudus Town”, “Kudus Town District”, and “Kudus, Indonesia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kretek Museum.
Kretek Museum
Museum
Photo: Andy Saiful Anam, CC BY 3.0.
The Kretek Museum is a museum in Kudus, Indonesia. It opened in 1986 and was jointly founded by several Indonesian cigarette companies. The museum focuses on the history—both economic and religious—of kretek, a type of cigarette common in Indonesia that includes cloves.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kudus.
Kudus
Photo: PL09Puryono, CC0.
Kudus is a regency in Central Java province in Indonesia. Its capital is the town of Kudus. It covers 425.15 km2 and is thus the smallest regency on Java Island in area, and it had a population of 777,437 at the 2010 Census and 849,184 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2024 was 883,322.
Kudus
- Categories: kecamatan and capital of regency
- Location: Central Java, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Balinese to Swedish—“Kudus” goes by many names.
- Balinese: “Kudus, Kudus”
- Balinese: “Kudus”
- Cebuano: “Kecamatan Kota Kudus”
- Chinese: “Kudus”
- Chinese: “古突史”
- Chinese: “古突士”
- Chinese: “庫都斯”
- Danish: “Kudus”
- Dutch: “Kota Kudus”
- Dutch: “Kudus”
- French: “Kudus”
- German: “Kota”
- German: “Kudus”
- Indonesian: “Kecamatan Kota Kudus”
- Indonesian: “Kecamatan Kudus Kota”
- Indonesian: “Kecamatan Kudus”
- Indonesian: “Kota Kudus, Kudus”
- Indonesian: “Kota Kudus”
- Irish: “Kota Kudus”
- Javanese: “Kota Kudus”
- Javanese: “Kutha Kudus, Kudus”
- Komering: “Kudus”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kudus”
- Polish: “Kudus”
- Romanian: “Kudus”
- Swedish: “Kecamatan Kota Kudus”
- “Kota Kudus”
- “Kudus”
- “Kudus, Kudus”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kudus”. Photo: Awtux, CC0.