Bengkulu
Bengkulu, historically known as Bencoolen, is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southwest coast of Sumatra. It was formed on 18 November 1968 by separating out the area of the historic Bencoolen Residency from the province of South Sumatra under Law No.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Bengkulu
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Bengkulu is the capital of Bengkulu province, which is named after the city, on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. With a population of 329,000, Bengkulu is the largest city of Bengkulu province.
Curup
Curup is the regency seat and also an administrative district of Rejang Lebong Regency, part of the Indonesian Province of Bengkulu on Sumatra island. The district has an area of 5.21 km², consisting of nine administrative villages with 26,971 residents at the 2020 Census, rising to 27,017 in the official estimates as of mid 2021, but dropping slightly to 26,762 as of mid 2024.Bengkulu
- Type: State with 2,030,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia
- Also known as: “Bangkahulu”, “Bencoolen”, “Bengkulu Province”, “Benkoelen”, “Daerah Tingkat I Bengkulu”, and “tengah padang”
- Neighbors: Jambi, Lampung, South Sumatra, and West Sumatra
- Categories: province of Indonesia and locality
- Location: Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-3.5187° or 3° 31′ 7″ southLongitude of center
102.536° or 102° 32′ 10″ eastPopulation
2,030,000Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1898283447OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Bengkulu” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Bengkulu”
- Arabic: “بنغكولو”
- Arabic: “بنقكولو”
- Azerbaijani: “Benqkulu”
- Balinese: “Bengkulu”
- Balinese: “Propinsi Bengkulu”
- Balinese: “ᬩᭂᬂᬓᬸᬮᬸ”
- Basque: “Bengkulu”
- Batak Mandailing: “Bengkulu”
- Belarusian: “Бенгкулу”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Бенгкулу”
- Bengali: “বেংকুলু”
- Bengali: “বেঙ্কুলু”
- Betawi: “Bangkahulu”
- Bulgarian: “Бенгкулу”
- Catalan: “Bengkulu”
- Cebuano: “Propinsi Bengkulu”
- Chinese: “Bengkulu Séng”
- Chinese: “明古魯”
- Chinese: “明古魯省”
- Chinese: “明古鲁省”
- Czech: “Bengkulu”
- Danish: “Bengkulu”
- Dutch: “Bengkulu”
- Esperanto: “Bengkuluo”
- Finnish: “Bengkulu”
- French: “Bengkulu”
- Galician: “Bengkulu”
- Georgian: “ბენკულუ”
- German: “Bengkulu”
- German: “Provinz Bengkulu”
- Gorontalo: “Bengkulu”
- Greek: “Μπανκούλου”
- Gujarati: “બેન્ગકુલુ પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Bengkulu”
- Hebrew: “בנגקולו”
- Hindi: “बेंकुलू”
- Hindi: “बेंगकूलू प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Bengkulu”
- Iloko: “Bengkulu”
- Indonesian: “Bengkulu”
- Indonesian: “Prov. Bengkulu”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Bengkulu”
- Irish: “Bengkulu”
- Italian: “Bengkulu”
- Japanese: “ブンクル州”
- Javanese: “Bengkulu”
- Kannada: “ಬೆಂಕುಲು ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Komering: “Bangkulu”
- Komering: “Bengkulu”
- Korean: “븡쿨루주”
- Latvian: “Benkulu”
- Lithuanian: “Benkulu”
- Lithuanian: “Benkulus”
- Madurese: “Ḅângkolo”
- Madurese: “Bengkulu”
- Malagasy: “Bengkulu”
- Malay: “Bengkulu”
- Malayalam: “ബെങ്കുളു”
- Marathi: “बेंकुलू प्रांत”
- Marathi: “बेंकुलू”
- Mazanderani: “بنگکولو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Bengkulu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bengkulu”
- Minangkabau: “Bangkulu”
- Minangkabau: “Bengkulu”
- Northern Frisian: “Bengkulu (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Bengkulu”
- Northern Luri: “بنگکولو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bengkulu”
- Norwegian: “Bengkulu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bengkulu”
- Pampanga: “Bengkulu”
- Persian: “بنگکولو”
- Polish: “Bengkulu”
- Portuguese: “Benculu”
- Portuguese: “Bengkulu”
- Romanian: “Bengkulu”
- Russian: “Bengkulu”
- Russian: “Бенгкулу (провинция)”
- Russian: “Бенкулу (Индонезия)”
- Russian: “Бенкулу (провинция)”
- Russian: “Бенкулу”
- Serbian: “Бенгкулу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bengkulu”
- Sinhala: “බෙන්කුලු පළාත”
- Sinhala: “බෙන්ග්කුලු පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Slovenian: “Bengkulu”
- Somali: “Bengkulu”
- South Azerbaijani: “بنقکولو”
- Spanish: “Benkoelen”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Bengkulu”
- Spanish: “provincia en Indonesia”
- Sundanese: “Bengkulu”
- Swedish: “Bengkulu”
- Tamil: “இந்தோனேசியாவில் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “தென்மேற்குச் சுமாத்திரா”
- Tamil: “பெங்கூலு மாநிலம்”
- Tamil: “பெங்கூலு”
- Tatar: “Бенкулу”
- Telugu: “బెంగ్కులు ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “బెంగ్కులు రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเบิงกูลู”
- Turkish: “Bengkulu”
- Ukrainian: “Бенгкулу”
- Ukrainian: “Бенкулу”
- Urdu: “بنگکولو”
- Vietnamese: “Bengkulu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bengkulu”
- Welsh: “Bengkulu”
- Western Armenian: “Պենկքուլու”
- Western Panjabi: “بنگکولو”
- Wu Chinese: “明古魯省”
- Yue Chinese: “明古魯”
- “Bengkulu”
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