North Sumatra

North Sumatra is a province in the north 's Island. Various tourist destinations can be found throughout the province, Berastagi is best known as a hilly place with a cooler temperature as the whole province is in tropical region.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Medan and Lake Toba.

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is a very large city on the north coast of the island of in Indonesia, and the capital and largest city of North Sumatra province. 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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, on the island of in , is the largest volcanic lake in the world. Samosir island, in the lake, is an island within an island. It is in North Sumatra.

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is an island the Indian Ocean off North Sumatra. Isolated yet worldly, the Island chain has been trading since prehistory with other cultures, other islands, and even mainland Asia.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Mount Sinabung and Pematangsiantar.

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is North Sumatra's 4th most active volcano. The long eruption of is similar to that of Mount Unzen in Japan, which erupted for five years after lying dormant for 400 years.

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, and also known as the City of , is an independent city in North Sumatra Province of , surrounded by, but not part of, the , making an enclave within Simalungun Regency.

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, formally Kota , is an independent city in the North Sumatra province of , bordered by to the east and to the west.

Tanjungbalai, also colloquially written as , is a city in North Sumatra province, , on the estuary of the . It has an area of 60.07 square kilometers and the sixth largest kota population in North Sumatra with 154,445 inhabitants in the 2010 census and 176,027 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid 2025 was 190,935.

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is a city and a port located in the natural harbour of on the west coast of North Sumatra province, in . The city is located on the western side of North Sumatra facing the Indian Ocean, is a transit harbour to Nias Island, and was hard hit during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

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Padangsidimpuan is a city in North Sumatra, , and the former capital of , which surrounds the city. It covers an area of 159.28 km2 and had a population of 178,818 according to the 2000 Census.

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is an international airport in Deli Serdang, serving and North Sumatra.

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is a town in North Sumatra, . It is home to two famous volcanoes, Sibayak and Sinabung, the latter of which has been erupting quite frequently since 2013.

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is a stratovolcano that looming over the town of in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

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The are an archipelago of located in the Indian Ocean, off the west coast of , between and . The three primary islands, of approximately equal size, are Pini, Tanahmasa, and Tanahbala.

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is an national park in that is located in Mandailing Natal regency. It was named after the main river that flows and divides Mandailing Natal Regency, the Batang Gadis River.

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is a city in North Sumatra and it is also the capital of Dairi Regency. It is famous for its coffee and durian.

is a large town in North Sumatra province of and it is the seat of Labuhan Batu Regency. is also a name of a village within the district of Rantau Utara.

is a large town in the North Sumatra province of . is the administrative capital of . does not now have the status of an independent city, but is composed of two administrative districts - West District and East District.
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North Sumatra

  • Type: State with 14,900,000 residents
  • Description: province of Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Andalas Utara”, “ma Sumata pi poka pi soweli lete”, “ma Sumata pi soweli lete”, “North Sumatra Province”, “Propinsi Sumatera - Utara”, “Propinsi Sumatera-Utara”, “Prov. Sumatera Utara”, “Provinz Nordsumatra”, “Sumata Utala”, “Sumatera - Utara”, “Sumatra del Norte”, “Sumut”, “سوموت”, “उत्तर सुमात्रा प्रांत”, “வடக்கு சுமத்ரா மாகாணம்”, “ఉత్తర సుమత్రా రాష్ట్రభాగం”, and “北蘇門答臘省”
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: province of Indonesia and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
2.1924° or 2° 11′ 33″ north
Longitude of center
99.3812° or 99° 22′ 52″ east
Population
14,900,000
Elevation
1,024 metres (3,360 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1213642
Wiki­data ID
Q2140
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“North Sumatra” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sumatra Barôh”
  • Amharic: “ሰሜን ሱማትራ”
  • Arabic: “سومطرة الشمالية”
  • Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Սումատրա”
  • Asturian: “Sumatra Septentrional”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimal Sumatra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Sumatra”
  • Balinese: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Basque: “Ipar Sumatra”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Provinsi Sumatera Utara”
  • Batak Toba: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночная Суматра”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Паўночная Суматра”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Паўночная Суматра”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর সুমাত্রা”
  • Betawi: “Sumatra Lor”
  • Breton: “Norzh Sumatra”
  • Bulgarian: “Северна Суматра”
  • Catalan: “Sumatra Septentrional”
  • Cebuano: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Chamorro: “Lagu na Sumatra”
  • Chinese: “北苏门答腊省”
  • Chinese: “北蘇門答臘”
  • Czech: “Severní Sumatra”
  • Danish: “Nordsumatra”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Sumatra”
  • Dzongkha: “སུ་མ་ཊེ་ར་ཡུ་ཏ་ར་ ས་གནས།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سومطره الشماليه”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Sumatro”
  • Finnish: “Pohjois-Sumatra”
  • French: “Sumatra du Nord”
  • Galician: “Sumatra Setentrional”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი სუმატრა”
  • German: “Nord-Sumatra”
  • German: “Sumatera Utara”
  • German: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Gorontalo: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Greek: “Βόρεια Σουμάτρα”
  • Gujarati: “ઉત્તર સુમાત્રા પ્રાંત”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet Sû-mùn-tap-lia̍p-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet Sumatera”
  • Hausa: “Arewacin Sumatra”
  • Hebrew: “צפון סומטרה”
  • Hindi: “उत्तर सुमात्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Szumátra”
  • Iban: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Iloko: “Amianan a Sumatra”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Tingkat I Sumatera Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Sumatra Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Sumatera Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Irish: “Sumatra Thuaidh”
  • Italian: “Sumatra Settentrionale”
  • Japanese: “北スマトラ州”
  • Javanese: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Javanese: “Sumatra Lor”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಸುಮಾತ್ರ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Түндік Сумматра”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តស៊ូម៉ាត្រាខាងជើង”
  • Kirghiz: “Түндүк Суматра”
  • Komering: “Sumatera Liba”
  • Komering: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Korean: “북수마트라주”
  • Korean: “수마트라우타라 주”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļsumatra”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Sumatra”
  • Macedonian: “Северна Суматра”
  • Madurese: “Somattra Ḍâjâ”
  • Madurese: “Sumatra Ḍâjâ”
  • Malay: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Malay: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Malay: “سوماترا اوتارا”
  • Malayalam: “വടക്കൻ സുമാത്ര”
  • Marathi: “उत्तर सुमात्रा”
  • Mazanderani: “شمالی سوماترا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k Sumatra”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak Sumatera Séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak Sumatera”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “北蘇門答臘”
  • Minangkabau: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Minangkabau: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Mongolian: “Умар Суматра”
  • Mongolian: “Хойд Суматра”
  • Nias: “Provinsi Sumatra Utara”
  • Nias: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Northern Luri: “سوماترا شمالی”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-Sumatra”
  • Norwegian: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Oromo: “Kaaba Sumaatra”
  • Pampanga: “North Sumatra”
  • Pampanga: “Pangulung Sumatra”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰ ਸੁਮਾਤਰਾ”
  • Persian: “سوماترای شمالی”
  • Polish: “Sumatra Północna”
  • Portuguese: “Sumatra do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “Sumatra Setentrional”
  • Pushto: “شمالي سومطره”
  • Russian: “Северная Суматра”
  • Scots: “North Sumatra”
  • Serbian: “Северна Суматра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverna Sumatra”
  • Sinhala: “උතුරු සුමාත්‍රා පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
  • Sinhala: “උතුරු සුමාත්‍රා පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Severna Sumatra”
  • Somali: “Woqooyi Sumaatra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوزئی سوماترای”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Sumatra Septentrional”
  • Spanish: “provincia en Indonesia”
  • Spanish: “Sumatra Septentrional”
  • Sundanese: “Sumatra Kalér”
  • Swahili: “Sumatra Kaskazini”
  • Swedish: “Sumatera Utara”
  • Swedish: “Sumatra Utara”
  • Tajik: “Сумматраи Шимол”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு சுமாத்திரா மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு சுமாத்திரா”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк Суматра”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк Сумматра”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తర సుమత్రా ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดสุมาตราเหนือ”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Sumatra”
  • Ukrainian: “Північна Суматра”
  • Urdu: “شمالی سماٹرا”
  • Uzbek: “Shimoliy Sumatra”
  • Venetian: “Sumatra Setentrional”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Sumatera”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan nga Sumatra”
  • Welsh: “Gogledd Sumatra”
  • Western Armenian: “Հիւսիսային Սումաթրա”
  • Western Panjabi: “اُبھا سماٹرا”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ اتلا سماٹرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “北苏门答腊省”
  • Yue Chinese: “北蘇門答臘”
  • “ma Sumata Utala”
  • “Sumatera Utara”

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