Padang

Padang is the capital city of , . It is mostly used by tourists as an access point to , the surfing sites and indigenous tribal culture of the , the inland hills of , and the .
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  • Type: City with 1,000,000 residents
  • Description: city in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Kota-Besar Padang”, “Kotapraja Padang”, “PAD”, “Padang City”, “פאדאנג”, “بادنق”, “بدنغ”, “بدنك”, “فادان”, and “کوتا ڤادڠ”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Grand Mosque of West Sumatra and Gelora Haji Agus Salim Sports Complex.

Mosque
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is a in Padang, , .

Stadium
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Gelora Haji Agus Salim Stadium or GHAS is a multi-use in Padang, , .

Railway station
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Padang Station is a railway station of the Pulau…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ganting Parak Gadang and Rimbo Kaluang.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a village.

Padang

Latitude
-0.9248° or 0° 55′ 29″ south
Longitude
100.3633° or 100° 21′ 48″ east
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
PDG
UN/LOCODE
ID PDG
Open location code
6PF239G7+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2781151359
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1633419
Wiki­data ID
Q7253
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Padang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kuta Padang”
  • Achinese: “Padang”
  • Afrikaans: “Padang”
  • Arabic: “بادان”
  • Arabic: “بادانغ”
  • Arabic: “بادنغ”
  • Arabic: “بدنق”
  • Aragonese: “Padang”
  • Armenian: “Պադանգ”
  • Arpitan: “Padang”
  • Asturian: “Padang”
  • Azerbaijani: “پادانگ”
  • Balinese: “Kota Padang”
  • Balinese: “Padang”
  • Basque: “Padang”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Padang”
  • Bavarian: “Padang”
  • Belarusian: “Паданг”
  • Bengali: “পাডাং”
  • Bengali: “পাদাং”
  • Betawi: “Kota Padang”
  • Breton: “Padang”
  • Bulgarian: “Паданг”
  • Catalan: “Padang”
  • Cebuano: “Padang”
  • Chinese: “巴东”
  • Chinese: “巴塘”
  • Chinese: “巴東”
  • Corsican: “Padang”
  • Croatian: “Padang”
  • Czech: “Padang”
  • Danish: “Padang”
  • Dutch: “Padang”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ཌང་ གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Esperanto: “Padango”
  • Estonian: “Padang”
  • Fijian: “Padang”
  • Finnish: “Padang”
  • French: “Padang”
  • Friulian: “Padang”
  • Galician: “Padang”
  • Georgian: “პადანგი”
  • German: “Padang”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Padang”
  • Greek: “Πάντανγκ”
  • Gujarati: “પદાંગ”
  • Hebrew: “פדאנג”
  • Hindi: “पडांग”
  • Hungarian: “Padang”
  • Iban: “Padang (nengeri)”
  • Iban: “Padang”
  • Icelandic: “Padang”
  • Ido: “Padang”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Padang”
  • Indonesian: “Padang”
  • Interlingua: “Padang”
  • Interlingue: “Padang”
  • Irish: “Padang”
  • Italian: “Padang”
  • Japanese: “パダン”
  • Javanese: “Kota Padang”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Padang”
  • Jèrriais: “Padang”
  • Kannada: “ಪದಾಂಗ್”
  • Komering: “Padang”
  • Kongo: “Padang”
  • Korean: “파당”
  • Latvian: “Padana”
  • Latvian: “Padanga”
  • Ligurian: “Padang”
  • Limburgan: “Padang”
  • Lithuanian: “Padangas”
  • Low German: “Padang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Padang”
  • Madurese: “Kotta Padang”
  • Madurese: “Kottha Paḍang”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Padang”
  • Malay: “Kota Padang”
  • Malay: “Padang”
  • Malay: “ڤادڠ”
  • Malayalam: “പഡാങ്”
  • Marathi: “पादांग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Padang Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Padang”
  • Minangkabau: “Koto Padang”
  • Moksha: “Паданг”
  • Neapolitan: “Padang”
  • Nias: “Kota Padang”
  • Nias: “Wada”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Padang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Padang”
  • Norwegian: “Padang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Padang”
  • Ossetian: “Паданг”
  • Persian: “پادانگ”
  • Persian: “پادنگ، اندونزی”
  • Picard: “Padang”
  • Piemontese: “Padang”
  • Polish: “Padang”
  • Portuguese: “Padang”
  • Portuguese: “Padangue”
  • Romanian: “Padang, Indonezia”
  • Romanian: “Padang”
  • Romansh: “Padang”
  • Russian: “Паданг”
  • Sardinian: “Padang”
  • Scots: “Padang”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Padang”
  • Serbian: “Padang”
  • Shona: “Padan’i”
  • Shona: “Padang”
  • Sicilian: “Padang”
  • Sinhala: “පඩන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Padang”
  • Slovenian: “Padang”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پادانگ”
  • Spanish: “Padang”
  • Sundanese: “Kota Padang”
  • Swahili: “Padang”
  • Swedish: “Padang”
  • Swiss German: “Padang”
  • Tamil: “பாடாங்”
  • Tatar: “Падаң”
  • Telugu: “పడoగ్”
  • Thai: “ปาดัง”
  • Turkish: “Padang”
  • Ukrainian: “Паданг”
  • Ukrainian: “Паданґ”
  • Urdu: “پادانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Padang”
  • Venetian: “Padang”
  • Vietnamese: “Padang, Indonesia”
  • Vietnamese: “Padang”
  • Vlaams: “Padang”
  • Volapük: “Padang”
  • Walloon: “Padang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Padang, Indonesia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Padang”
  • Welsh: “Padang”
  • Western Frisian: “Padang”
  • Western Panjabi: “پاڈانگ”
  • Wolof: “Padang”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴東（西蘇門答臘省）”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴東”
  • Yakut: “Паданг”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴東 (印尼)”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴東”
  • Zulu: “Padang”
  • “ma tomo Patan”
  • “Padang”

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