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 and indigenous tribal culture of the Mentawai Islands, the inland hills of Bukittinggi, and the Kerinci Seblat National Park.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand Mosque of West Sumatra and Gelora Haji Agus Salim Sports Complex.
Grand Mosque of West Sumatra
Mosque
Gelora Haji Agus Salim Sports Complex
Stadium
Gelora Haji Agus Salim Stadium or GHAS 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
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ganting Parak Gadang and Rimbo Kaluang.
Padang
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kota Besar, Kotapraja, and locality
- Location: West Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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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
United Nations Location Code
ID PDG
Open location code
6PF239G7+38
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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: “פאדאנג”
- Hebrew: “פדאנג”
- Hindi: “पडांग”
- Hungarian: “Padang”
- Iban: “Padang (nengeri)”
- Iban: “Padang”
- Icelandic: “Padang”
- Ido: “Padang”
- Indonesian: “Kota Padang”
- Indonesian: “Kota-Besar Padang”
- Indonesian: “Kotapraja 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: “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: “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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