Padang
Padang is the capital city of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is mostly used by tourists as an access point to Bungus Bay, the surfing sites of the Mentawai Islands, the inland hills of Bukittinggi, and the Kerinci Seblat National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Zhilal Darma, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand Mosque of West Sumatra and Gelora Haji Agus Salim Sports Complex.
Grand Mosque of West Sumatra
Mosque
Photo: Rahmat Irfan Denas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Mosque of West Sumatra is a mosque in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the largest mosque in West Sumatra and the second-largest mosque in Sumatra.
Gelora Haji Agus Salim Sports Complex
Stadium
Gelora Haji Agus Salim Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is currently used mostly for Football matches and is the home stadium of Semen Padang and PSP Padang.
Padang railway station
Railway station
Photo: Frenzyvanrafi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Padang Station is a railway station of the Pulau Aie–Padang Panjang railway and Teluk Bayur–Padang railway located at Jl. Stasiun No. 1, Simpang Haru, Eastern Padang, Padang, West Sumatra.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rimbo Kaluang and Sawahan.
Padang
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: West Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-0.9248° or 0° 55′ 29″ southLongitude
100.3633° or 100° 21′ 48″ eastPopulation
1,000,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
PDGUnited Nations Location Code
ID PDGOpen location code
6PF239G7+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 2781151359OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1633419Wikidata 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”
- Arabic: “فادان”
- 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: “Kota Padang”
- Cebuano: “Padang”
- Chinese: “Padang Chhī”
- Chinese: “巴东”
- Chinese: “巴塘”
- Chinese: “巴東”
- Corsican: “Padang”
- Croatian: “Padang”
- Czech: “Padang”
- Danish: “Padang”
- Dutch: “Padang”
- 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: “פאדאנג”
- 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: “Kutha 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”
- Malay: “کوتا ڤادڠ”
- Malayalam: “പഡാങ്”
- Marathi: “पादांग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Padang Chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Kota Padang”
- Minangkabau: “Koto Padang”
- Minangkabau: “Padang”
- Moksha: “Паданг”
- Narom: “Padang”
- Neapolitan: “Padang”
- Nias: “Kota Padang”
- Nias: “Wada”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Padang”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Padang”
- Norwegian: “Padang”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Padang”
- Ossetian: “Паданг”
- Persian: “پادنگ، اندونزی”
- Picard: “Padang”
- Piemontese: “Padang”
- Polish: “Padang”
- Portuguese: “Padang”
- Portuguese: “Padangue”
- Romanian: “Padang, Indonezia”
- 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: “Kota 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)”
- Zulu: “Padang”
- “Kota Padang”
- “ma tomo Patan”
- “Padang”
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