Bukittinggi
Bukittinggi is a city of 117,000 people in West Sumatra. It is a city popular with tourists because of its pleasant climate and central location. Bukittinggi is also a popular shopping destination for cheap textiles and fashion products, especially for Malaysians.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 100,000 residents
- Description: city in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Bukittinggi City”, “Fort de Kock”, “Fort de Rock”, and “Kota Bukittinggi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort de Kock and Museum Perjuangan Tri Daya Eka Dharma.
Fort de Kock
Photo: Tdevries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort de Kock was a 19th-century Dutch sconce fortification established over a hill in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Around the fortification, a new settlement grew, which eventually grew into the city of Bukittinggi, the second largest city in West Sumatra.
Jam Gadang
Clock
Photo: Iwansw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jam Gadang is a clock tower, major landmark, and tourist attraction in the city of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is in the centre of the city, near the main market, Pasar Ateh. It has large clocks on each face.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bukik Apik Puhun.
Bukik Apik Puhun
Village
Photo: KKN BUKIT APIT UNRI 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bukik Apik Puhun is a village.
Bukittinggi
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: West Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.3052° or 0° 18′ 19″ southLongitude
100.3695° or 100° 22′ 10″ eastPopulation
100,000Elevation
927 metres (3,041 feet)United Nations Location Code
ID BUKOpen location code
6PF2M9V9+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 336643803OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Bukittinggi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Bukittinggi”
- Afrikaans: “Bukittinggi”
- Arabic: “بوكيتنغي”
- Arabic: “بوكيتينقي”
- Aragonese: “Bukittinggi”
- Arpitan: “Bukittinggi”
- Asturian: “Bukittinggi”
- Azerbaijani: “Bukittinqqi”
- Balinese: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Bashkir: “Букиттинги”
- Basque: “Bukittinggi”
- Bavarian: “Bukittinggi”
- Belarusian: “Букіцінгі”
- Bengali: “বুকিটিংগি”
- Betawi: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Breton: “Bukittinggi”
- Bulgarian: “Букитинги”
- Catalan: “Bukittinggi”
- Cebuano: “Bukittinggi”
- Cebuano: “Kota Bukittinggi (kabupaten sa Indonesia)”
- Cebuano: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Chinese: “Bukittinggi Chhī”
- Chinese: “武吉丁宜”
- Corsican: “Bukittinggi”
- Croatian: “Bukittinggi”
- Czech: “Bukittinggi”
- Danish: “Bukittinggi”
- Dutch: “Bukittinggi”
- Dutch: “Fort de Kock”
- Esperanto: “Bukittinggi”
- Estonian: “Bukittinggi”
- Finnish: “Bukittinggi”
- French: “Bukittinggi”
- French: “Fort de Kock”
- Friulian: “Bukittinggi”
- Galician: “Bukittinggi”
- German: “Bukittinggi”
- German: “Fort de Kock”
- Greek: “Μπουκιτίνγκι”
- Hebrew: “בוקיטינגי”
- Hungarian: “Bukittinggi”
- Iban: “Bukittinggi (nengeri)”
- Iban: “Bukittinggi”
- Icelandic: “Bukittinggi”
- Ido: “Bukittinggi”
- Indonesian: “Bukit Tinggi”
- Indonesian: “Bukittinggi”
- Indonesian: “Kota Bukit Tinggi”
- Indonesian: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Interlingua: “Bukittinggi”
- Interlingue: “Bukittinggi”
- Irish: “Bukittinggi”
- Italian: “Bukittinggi”
- Japanese: “ブキティンギ”
- Javanese: “Bukittinggi”
- Javanese: “Kutha Bukittinggi”
- Komering: “Bukittinggi”
- Kongo: “Bukittinggi”
- Korean: “부키팅기”
- Ligurian: “Bukittinggi”
- Limburgan: “Bukittinggi”
- Lithuanian: “Bukitingis”
- Low German: “Bukittinggi”
- Luxembourgish: “Bukittinggi”
- Madurese: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Madurese: “Kotta Bukittinggi”
- Malagasy: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Malay: “Bukittinggi”
- Malayalam: “ബുക്കിറ്റിങ്കി”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bukittinggi Chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Bukiktinggi”
- Minangkabau: “Bukittinggi”
- Minangkabau: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Narom: “Bukittinggi”
- Neapolitan: “Bukittinggi”
- Nias: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukittinggi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bukittinggi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bukittinggi”
- Ossetian: “Букиттинги”
- Persian: “بوکیت تینگی”
- Picard: “Bukittinggi”
- Piemontese: “Bukittinggi”
- Polish: “Bukittinggi”
- Portuguese: “Bukittinggi”
- Romanian: “Bukittinggi”
- Romansh: “Bukittinggi”
- Russian: “Бикиттинги”
- Russian: “Букиттинги”
- Sardinian: “Bukittinggi”
- Scots: “Bukittinggi”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bukittinggi”
- Serbian: “Bukittinggi”
- Sicilian: “Bukittinggi”
- Slovak: “Bukittinggi”
- Slovenian: “Bukittinggi”
- Spanish: “Bukittinggi”
- Sundanese: “Bukittinggi”
- Swahili: “Bukittinggi”
- Swedish: “Bukittinggi”
- Swedish: “Kota Bukittinggi (kabupaten i Indonesien)”
- Swiss German: “Bukittinggi”
- Tamil: “புக்கிட்திங்கி மாநகரம்”
- Tamil: “புக்கிட்திங்கி”
- Tatar: “Букиттинги”
- Tatar: “Букиттиңги”
- Thai: “บูกิตติงงี”
- Turkish: “Bukittinggi”
- Ukrainian: “Букіттінгі”
- Urdu: “بوکیتینگی”
- Venetian: “Bukittinggi”
- Vietnamese: “Bukittinggi”
- Vlaams: “Bukittinggi”
- Volapük: “Bukittinggi”
- Walloon: “Bukittinggi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukittinggi”
- Welsh: “Bukittinggi”
- Wolof: “Bukittinggi”
- Zulu: “Bukittinggi”
- “Bukittinggi”
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