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.
Photo: Hanafiannoy, Public domain.
- Type: City with 100,000 residents
- Description: city in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Bukit Tinggi”, “Bukittinggi City”, “Fort de Kock”, “Fort de Rock”, “Kota Bukit Tinggi”, “Kota Bukittinggi (kabupaten i Indonesien)”, “Kota Bukittinggi (kabupaten sa Indonesia)”, “Kota-Besar Bukittinggi”, “Kotamadya Daerah Tingkat II Bukittinggi”, “Kotapraja Bukit Tinggi”, and “Kotapraja Bukittinggi”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fort de Kock and Tri Daya Eka Dharma Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bukik Apik Puhun and Pakan Sinayan.
Bukittinggi
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kota Besar, Kotapraja, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: West Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.3052° or 0° 18′ 19″ south
Longitude
100.3695° or 100° 22′ 10″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
927 metres (3,041 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ID BUK
Open location code
6PF2M9V9+WQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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”
- Chinese: “武吉丁宜”
- Corsican: “Bukittinggi”
- Croatian: “Bukittinggi”
- Czech: “Bukittinggi”
- Danish: “Bukittinggi”
- Dutch: “Bukittinggi”
- Esperanto: “Bukittinggi”
- Estonian: “Bukittinggi”
- Fijian: “Bukittinggi”
- Finnish: “Bukittinggi”
- French: “Bukittinggi”
- Friulian: “Bukittinggi”
- Galician: “Bukittinggi”
- German: “Bukittinggi”
- Greek: “Μπουκιτίνγκι”
- Hebrew: “בוקיטינגי”
- Hungarian: “Bukittinggi”
- Iban: “Bukittinggi (nengeri)”
- Iban: “Bukittinggi”
- Icelandic: “Bukittinggi”
- Ido: “Bukittinggi”
- Indonesian: “Bukittinggi”
- Indonesian: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Interlingua: “Bukittinggi”
- Interlingue: “Bukittinggi”
- Irish: “Bukittinggi”
- Italian: “Bukittinggi”
- Japanese: “ブキティンギ”
- Javanese: “Bukittinggi”
- Javanese: “Kutha Bukittinggi”
- Jèrriais: “Bukittinggi”
- Komering: “Bukittinggi”
- Kongo: “Bukittinggi”
- Korean: “부키팅기”
- Ligurian: “Bukittinggi”
- Limburgan: “Bukittinggi”
- Lithuanian: “Bukitingis”
- Low German: “Bukittinggi”
- Luxembourgish: “Bukittinggi”
- Madurese: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Madurese: “Kottha Bukittinggi”
- Malagasy: “Kota Bukittinggi”
- Malay: “Bukittinggi”
- Malayalam: “ബുക്കിറ്റിങ്കി”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bukittinggi Chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Bukiktinggi”
- Minangkabau: “Bukittinggi”
- Minangkabau: “Kota 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”
- 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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Places to explore: Benteng Pasar Atas and Aur Tajungkang Tengah Sawah.
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