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Banda Aceh

Banda Aceh is the capital of the Indonesian province of on the island of . It was also the capital for the Sultanate of Aceh upon its foundation in the late 15th century.
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  • Type: City with 223,000 residents
  • Description: city in Aceh Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Baiturahman”, “Banda Aceh City”, “BNA”, “Kuta Raja”, “Kutaradja”, “Kutaraja”, and “Pelabuhan Aceh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aceh Tsunami Museum and Baiturrahman Grand Mosque.

Museum
Photo: Rachmat04, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , located in Banda Aceh, , , is a museum designed as a symbolic reminder of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster, as well as an educational center and an emergency disaster shelter in case the area is ever hit by a tsunami again.

Mosque
Photo: Si Gam Acèh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a located in Banda Aceh, , . The is a symbol of religion, culture, spirit, strength, struggle, and nationalism of the Acehnese people.

Museum
Photo: Si Gam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aceh State Museum, popularly known as Aceh Museum or Banda Aceh Museum is a museum in Banda Aceh, . It is one of the oldest museum in Indonesia.

Banda Aceh

Latitude
5.5528° or 5° 33′ 10″ north
Longitude
95.3193° or 95° 19′ 9″ east
Population
223,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
BTJ
United Nations Location Code
ID BTJ
Open location code
6MQQH839+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267556063
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1215502
Wiki­data ID
Q5779
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Banda Aceh” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Banda Acèh”
  • Achinese: “Kuta Banda Acèh”
  • Afrikaans: “Banda Atjeh”
  • Arabic: “باندا آتشيه”
  • Arabic: “بندة آجة”
  • Aragonese: “Banda Aceh”
  • Arpitan: “Banda Aceh”
  • Asturian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Banda-Açex”
  • Balinese: “Banda Aceh”
  • Balinese: “Kota Banda Acéh”
  • Basque: “Banda Aceh”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Kota Banda Aceh”
  • Bavarian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Belarusian: “Банда-Ачэх”
  • Bengali: “বান্দা আচেহ”
  • Betawi: “Kota Banda Acéh”
  • Breton: “Banda Aceh”
  • Bulgarian: “Банда Ачех”
  • Catalan: “Banda Aceh”
  • Cebuano: “Banda Aceh”
  • Central Bikol: “Banda Aceh”
  • Chinese: “万达亚齐”
  • Chinese: “哥打拉夜”
  • Chinese: “班达亚齐”
  • Chinese: “班達亞齊”
  • Corsican: “Banda Aceh”
  • Croatian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Czech: “Banda Aceh”
  • Danish: “Banda Aceh”
  • Dutch: “Banda Aceh”
  • Dutch: “Banda Atjeh”
  • Dutch: “Koeta Radja”
  • Dutch: “Koetaradja”
  • Dutch: “Kota Radja”
  • Dutch: “Kutaraja”
  • Esperanto: “Banda Aceh”
  • Estonian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Faroese: “Banda Acèh”
  • Finnish: “Banda Aceh”
  • French: “Banda Aceh”
  • Friulian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Galician: “Banda Aceh”
  • Georgian: “ბანდა-აჩეჰი”
  • German: “Banda Aceh”
  • German: “Kota Banda Aceh”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Banda Aceh”
  • Greek: “Μπάντα Άτσεχ”
  • Gujarati: “બંદા એહ”
  • Hebrew: “בנדה אצ’ה”
  • Hindi: “बंद अटॆ”
  • Hindi: “बान्दा आचेह”
  • Hungarian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Icelandic: “Banda Aceh”
  • Ido: “Banda Aceh”
  • Indonesian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Kota Banda Aceh”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Banda Aceh”
  • Interlingua: “Banda Aceh”
  • Interlingue: “Banda Aceh”
  • Irish: “Banda Aceh”
  • Italian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Japanese: “バンダ・アチェ”
  • Javanese: “Banda Acèh”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Banda Acèh”
  • Kannada: “ಬಂದ ಅಟೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಂದಾ ಆಶೆ”
  • Komering: “Banda Aceh”
  • Kongo: “Banda Aceh”
  • Korean: “반다아체”
  • Latvian: “Banda Ačeha”
  • Ligurian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Limburgan: “Banda Aceh”
  • Lithuanian: “Banda Ačehas”
  • Low German: “Banda Aceh”
  • Luxembourgish: “Banda Aceh”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Banda Aceh”
  • Malay: “Banda Aceh”
  • Malay: “بندا اچيه”
  • Malayalam: “ബന്ദ അക്കെ”
  • Maltese: “Banda Aceh”
  • Marathi: “बांदा अह”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Banda Aceh”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Banda Aceh”
  • Moksha: “Банда Ачэх”
  • Narom: “Banda Aceh”
  • Neapolitan: “Banda Aceh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Banda Aceh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Banda Aceh”
  • Norwegian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Banda Aceh”
  • Ossetian: “Банда-Ачех”
  • Persian: “باندا آچه”
  • Persian: “باندا آسه”
  • Picard: “Banda Aceh”
  • Piemontese: “Banda Aceh”
  • Polish: “Banda Aceh”
  • Portuguese: “Banda Aceh”
  • Portuguese: “Banda Achém”
  • Romanian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Romansh: “Banda Aceh”
  • Russian: “Банда Ачех”
  • Russian: “Банда-Ачех”
  • Sardinian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Scots: “Banda Aceh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Banda Aceh”
  • Serbian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Serbian: “Банда Аћех”
  • Serbian: “Банда-Аћех”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Sicilian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Sinhala: “බණ්ඩා අසෙ”
  • Slovak: “Banda Aceh”
  • Slovenian: “Banda Aceh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باندا آچه”
  • Spanish: “Banda Aceh”
  • Sundanese: “Kota Banda Acéh”
  • Swahili: “Banda Aceh”
  • Swedish: “Banda Aceh”
  • Swiss German: “Banda Aceh”
  • Tagalog: “Banda Aceh”
  • Tamil: “சிறப்பு தலைநகர்”
  • Tamil: “பண்டா அச்சே”
  • Tatar: “Банда-Ачеһ”
  • Telugu: “బాండా ఆచెహ్”
  • Thai: “บันดาร์อาเจะห์”
  • Thai: “บันดาอาเจะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Banda Aceh”
  • Turkish: “Benderaçe”
  • Ukrainian: “Банда-Ачех”
  • Urdu: “باندا آچے”
  • Urdu: “بندہ آچے”
  • Venetian: “Banda Aceh”
  • Vietnamese: “Banda Aceh”
  • Vietnamese: “Banda Acheh”
  • Vlaams: “Banda Aceh”
  • Volapük: “Banda Aceh”
  • Walloon: “Banda Aceh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Banda Aceh”
  • Welsh: “Banda Aceh”
  • Western Frisian: “Banda Atjeh”
  • Western Panjabi: “بندا آچے”
  • Wolof: “Banda Aceh”
  • Wu Chinese: “班达亚齐”
  • Yue Chinese: “班達亞齊”
  • Zulu: “Banda Aceh”
  • “Banda Aceh”
  • “Kota Banda Aceh”

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