Kuta
Kuta is the best known tourist resort area on the island of Bali, Indonesia. With a long broad Indian Ocean beach-front, Kuta was discovered by tourists as a surfing paradise.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ngurah Rai International Airport.
Ngurah Rai International Airport
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Ngurah Rai International Airport is at the southern end of Bali, occupying a narrow isthmus between Kuta and Jimbaran. It's the prime way to get into Indonesia's most visited tourist destination.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Francis Xavier and Bali Bombing Memorial (Ground Zero Monument).
Satya Dharma Temple
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Vihara Satya Dharma is a modern Chinese temple at Benoa Port, Bali. It is a temple of the Three teachings of Chinese folk religion, i.e. Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Satya Dharma Temple is situated 4 km east of Kuta.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Legian and Seminyak.
Legian
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Legian is a beachfront town in South Bali, north of Kuta and south of Seminyak. Stretching north from Kuta, Legian offers the same easy access to shops and bars but a slightly more relaxed and less chaotic feeling.
Seminyak
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Seminyak is a beach town in South Bali north of Legian and Kuta. The next town north of Legian, Seminyak is more upmarket with mostly luxury accommodation and fashionable high-end restaurants and bars.
Kuta
Suburb
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Kuta is a tourist area, administratively an urban village, and the capital of Kuta District, Badung Regency, southern Bali, Indonesia. Kuta is a part of the Denpasar metropolitan area, 12 km south of downtown Denpasar.
Kuta
- Type: Town with 30,000 residents
- Description: district in Badung Regency, Bali Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Koeta” and “Kuta District”
- Categories: kecamatan and locality
- Location: Badung Regency, South Bali, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-8.7264° or 8° 43′ 35″ southLongitude
115.1778° or 115° 10′ 40″ eastPopulation
30,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
ID KUTOpen location code
6P3Q75FH+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1308696453OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Thai—“Kuta” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Kuta, Badung”
- Achinese: “Kuta”
- Arabic: “كوتا بالي”
- Arabic: “كوتا”
- Armenian: “Կուտա”
- Balinese: “Kuta, Badung”
- Balinese: “Kuta”
- Bengali: “কুতা”
- Bosnian: “Kuta”
- Burmese: “ကူတာ”
- Catalan: “Kuta”
- Cebuano: “Kecamatan Kuta”
- Cebuano: “Kuta”
- Chinese: “库塔”
- Chinese: “庫塔”
- Czech: “Kuta”
- Danish: “Kuta”
- Dutch: “Kuta”
- Esperanto: “Kuta”
- Finnish: “Kuta”
- French: “Kuta”
- Georgian: “კუტა”
- German: “Kuta”
- Gorontalo: “Kuta, Badung”
- Gorontalo: “Kuta”
- Greek: “Κούτα”
- Hebrew: “קוטה (אינדונזיה)”
- Hebrew: “קוטה”
- Hindi: “कूटा”
- Indonesian: “Kecamatan Kuta”
- Indonesian: “Kuta, Badung”
- Indonesian: “Kuta”
- Irish: “Kuta”
- Italian: “Kuta”
- Japanese: “クタ”
- Japanese: “クタ郡”
- Javanese: “Kuta, Badung”
- Javanese: “Kuta”
- Kannada: “ಕುಟ”
- Kannada: “ಕುತ”
- Korean: “쿠타”
- Malagasy: “Kuta”
- Malay: “Kuta, Badung”
- Malay: “Kuta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuta”
- Norwegian: “Kuta”
- Polish: “Kuta”
- Portuguese: “Cuta”
- Portuguese: “Kuta”
- Russian: “Кута”
- Serbian: “Кута”
- Slovak: “Kuta”
- Swedish: “Kecamatan Kuta”
- Swedish: “Kuta”
- Tamil: “குத்தா”
- Thai: “กูตา”
- “Kuta”
- “Kuta, Badung”
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