Medan

Medan is a very large city on the north coast of the island of in Indonesia, and the capital and largest city of province. Medan isn't a tourist destination, but it's a convenient stepping stone to other places like the 'weekend getaway' , the island of , Malaysia, and the popular, beautiful crater lake, .
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  • Type: City with 2,550,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Kota Besar Medan”, “Kotamadya Daerah Tingkat II Medan”, “Kotapraja Medan”, “Kutha Mèdan”, “ma tomo Metan”, “Medan City”, “Metan”, “Pematang-Medan”, “город Медан”, “मेडन”, “மெடான்”, “ᯔᯩᯑᯉ᯳”, and “棉兰市”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Medan Polonia International Airport and Maimun Palace.

Aerodrome
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Soewondo Air Force Base is a military airbase in Medan, , . Before 2013, this airport served commercial flights, and was known as Polonia International Airport which was the principal airport serving Medan, about 2 km from the downtown; it used to serve flights to several and cities, along with a flight to and .

Museum
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Maimoon Palace or is an istana of the Sultanate of Deli and a well-known landmark in Medan, the capital city of , .

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is a Sino Portuguese-style two-story mansion in Medan, , built by Tjong A Fie a Hakka merchant who came to own much of the land in Medan through his plantations, later becoming 'Majoor der Chineezen' in Medan and constructing the Medan-Belawan railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sunggal and Kesawan.

Suburb
is a town and an administrative district of in the province of North Sumatra, . The population of the town was 10,071 in 2020 and 10,713 in mid 2024.

Suburb
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is a district in West Medan, Medan, . This region is filled with historic buildings along Jalan Ahmad Yani, the oldest street in Medan, the majority of 's residents are ethnic Chinese and Deli Malays.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Medan

Latitude
3.5833° or 3° 35′ north
Longitude
98.6667° or 98° 40′ east
Population
2,550,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
IATA airport code
MES
United Nations Location Code
ID MES
Open location code
6MMWHMM8+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267554214
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1214520
Wiki­data ID
Q5972
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Medan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kuta Mèdan”
  • Achinese: “Mèdan”
  • Afrikaans: “Medan”
  • Arabic: “ميدان”
  • Armenian: “Մեդան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Medan”
  • Balinese: “Kota Médan”
  • Balinese: “Médan”
  • Basque: “Medan”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Medan”
  • Batak Toba: “Kota Medan”
  • Batak Toba: “Medan”
  • Belarusian: “Медан”
  • Belarusian: “Мэдан”
  • Bengali: “মেদান”
  • Betawi: “Kota Médan”
  • Bulgarian: “Медан”
  • Burmese: “မယ်ဒန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Medan”
  • Cebuano: “Medan”
  • Chechen: “Медан”
  • Chinese: “棉兰”
  • Chinese: “棉蘭”
  • Croatian: “Medan”
  • Czech: “Medan”
  • Danish: “Medan”
  • Dutch: “Medan”
  • Dzongkha: “མེ་ཌན་ གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Esperanto: “Medano”
  • Estonian: “Medan”
  • Fijian: “Medan”
  • Finnish: “Medan”
  • French: “Medan”
  • Galician: “Medan”
  • Georgian: “მედანი”
  • German: “Medan”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Medan”
  • Gorontalo: “Medan”
  • Greek: “Μεντάν”
  • Gujarati: “મેદાન”
  • Hausa: “Medan”
  • Hebrew: “מדן”
  • Hindi: “मॆदान्”
  • Hindi: “मेदन”
  • Hindi: “मेदान”
  • Hungarian: “Medan”
  • Iban: “Medan”
  • Icelandic: “Medan”
  • Ido: “Medan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Medan”
  • Indonesian: “Medan”
  • Interlingue: “Medan”
  • Irish: “Medan”
  • Italian: “Medan”
  • Japanese: “メダン”
  • Javanese: “Kota Medan”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Medan”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Médan”
  • Javanese: “Medan”
  • Javanese: “Mèdan”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Medan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Medan”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಡಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆದಾನ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Медан”
  • Komering: “Medan”
  • Korean: “메단”
  • Korean: “므단”
  • Latvian: “Medana”
  • Lithuanian: “Medanas”
  • Madurese: “Kottha Mèḍan”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Medan”
  • Malagasy: “Medan”
  • Malay: “Medan”
  • Malay: “ميدن”
  • Malayalam: “മേഡൻ”
  • Maltese: “Medan”
  • Maori: “Medan”
  • Maori: “Meta”
  • Marathi: “मेदान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Medan Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Medan”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Medan”
  • Minangkabau: “Madan”
  • Minangkabau: “Medan”
  • Nias: “Kota Medan”
  • Nias: “Kota sotöi Medan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Medan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Medan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Medan”
  • Norwegian: “Medan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Medan”
  • Ossetian: “Медан”
  • Persian: “مدان”
  • Polish: “Medan”
  • Portuguese: “Medã”
  • Portuguese: “Medan”
  • Romanian: “Medan, Indonezia”
  • Romanian: “Medan”
  • Russia Buriat: “Медан”
  • Russian: “Медан”
  • Scots: “Medan”
  • Serbian: “Медан”
  • Shan: “ဝဵင်းမေးတႅၼ်ႇ”
  • Silesian: “Medan”
  • Sinhala: “මේඩන්”
  • Slovak: “Medan”
  • Slovenian: “Medan”
  • Spanish: “Medan”
  • Sundanese: “Médan”
  • Swahili: “Medan”
  • Swedish: “Medan”
  • Tagalog: “Medan”
  • Tajik: “Медан”
  • Tamil: “மேடான்”
  • Tatar: “Медан”
  • Telugu: “మెడన్”
  • Thai: “เมดัน”
  • Thai: “เมดาน”
  • Turkish: “Medan”
  • Ukrainian: “Медан”
  • Urdu: “مدان”
  • Uzbek: “Medan”
  • Venetian: “Medan”
  • Veps: “Medan”
  • Vietnamese: “Medan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Medan”
  • Welsh: “Medan”
  • Western Frisian: “Medan (stêd)”
  • Western Frisian: “Medan”
  • Western Panjabi: “مدان”
  • Western Panjabi: “میدان ، انڈونیشیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “棉兰”
  • Yue Chinese: “棉蘭”
  • “ma Metan”
  • “Medan”

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