Cilacap
Cilacap is a town that located in the southwest of Central Java, Indonesia. It act as the seat regency of Cilacap.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 271,000 residents
- Description: capital of Cilacap Regency
- Also known as: “Chilachap”, “Kecamatan Cilacap”, and “Tjilatjap”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cilacap and Benteng Pendem.
Cilacap
Railway station
Photo: Evremonde, Public domain.
Cilacap Station is the most southern railway station in Java, Indonesia. It is located in Sidakaya, South Cilacap, Cilacap Regency, Central Java. This station is served by 2 passenger train that are Purwojaya, directing to Gambir via Purwokerto and Wijayakusuma to Ketapang.
Benteng Pendem
Museum
Photo: Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Benteng Pendem is an abandoned Dutch polygonal fortress in Cilacap Regency, Central Java, which has become the region's main tourist attraction. Built between 1861 and 1879, the fortress originally served to defend the important port of Cilacap, though after a series of changes in ownership it fell into disrepair in the 1960s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cilacap.
Cilacap
- Categories: port city, administrative city in Indonesia, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: Cilacap Regency, Banyumas, Central Java, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-7.7272° or 7° 43′ 38″ southLongitude
109.0097° or 109° 0′ 35″ eastPopulation
271,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
CXPUnited Nations Location Code
ID CXPOpen location code
6P4F72F5+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1308651254OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1646559Wikidata ID
Q31174965
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Cilacap” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيلاساب”
- Chinese: “芝拉扎”
- Indonesian: “Cilacap”
- Indonesian: “Kota Administratif Cilacap”
- Indonesian: “Kota Administratip Cilacap”
- Indonesian: “Kota Cilacap”
- Indonesian: “Kotip Cilacap”
- Japanese: “チラチャプ”
- Russian: “Чилачап”
- “Cilacap”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cilacap”. Photo: Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 4.0.