Indonesia
Sumatra
West Sumatra

Padang Panjang

Padang Panjang is a city located at in the highlands of , around 70 km inland from the provincial capital Padang. It sits on a plateau beneath the volcanoes and , thus creating cooler temperatures.
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  • Type: City with 104,000 residents
  • Description: city in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Padang Pandjang”, “Padang Panjang City”, “Padangpandjang”, “Padangpanjang”, and “Pandangrandjang”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Padang Panjang railway station and SMA Negeri 1 Padang Panjang.

Railway station
Photo: Avifo Anwar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

School
Photo: Sandi Rahmat Alzari, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a school.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.

Padang Panjang

Latitude
-0.4655° or 0° 27′ 56″ south
Longitude
100.3932° or 100° 23′ 36″ east
Population
104,000
Elevation
824 metres (2,703 feet)
Open location code
6PF2G9MV+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 595344601
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1633375
Wiki­data ID
Q7256
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Padang Panjang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Padang Panjang”
  • Afrikaans: “Padang Panjang”
  • Arabic: “بادانق بانجانق”
  • Arabic: “بادنغ بانجانغ”
  • Arabic: “بادنغ”
  • Aragonese: “Padang Panjang”
  • Arpitan: “Padang Panjang”
  • Asturian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Balinese: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Balinese: “Kota Padangpanjang”
  • Basque: “Padang Panjang”
  • Bavarian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Belarusian: “Паданг-Панджанг”
  • Betawi: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Breton: “Padang Panjang”
  • Catalan: “Padang Panjang”
  • Cebuano: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Cebuano: “Padang Panjang”
  • Cebuano: “Padangpanjang”
  • Chinese: “Padang Panjang Chhī”
  • Chinese: “巴東班讓”
  • Chinese: “巴當班讓”
  • Corsican: “Padang Panjang”
  • Croatian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Czech: “Padang Panjang”
  • Danish: “Padang Panjang”
  • Dutch: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Dutch: “Padang Panjang”
  • Dutch: “Padangpanjang”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بادنج”
  • Esperanto: “Padang Panjang”
  • Estonian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Finnish: “Padang Panjang”
  • French: “Padang Panjang”
  • Friulian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Galician: “Padang Panjang”
  • German: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • German: “Padang Panjang”
  • Greek: “Πάντανγκ Πάντζανγκ”
  • Hungarian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Iban: “Padang Panjang”
  • Icelandic: “Padang Panjang”
  • Ido: “Padang Panjang”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Indonesian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Indonesian: “Padangpanjang”
  • Interlingua: “Padang Panjang”
  • Interlingue: “Padang Panjang”
  • Irish: “Padang Panjang”
  • Italian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Japanese: “パダン・パンジャン”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Padangpanjang”
  • Komering: “Padang Panjang”
  • Kongo: “Padang Panjang”
  • Ligurian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Limburgan: “Padang Panjang”
  • Low German: “Padang Panjang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Padang Panjang”
  • Madurese: “Kottha Paḍang Panjang”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Malay: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Malay: “Padang Panjang”
  • Malay: “کوتا ڤادڠ ڤنجڠ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Padang Panjang Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Minangkabau: “Padang Panjang”
  • Narom: “Padang Panjang”
  • Neapolitan: “Padang Panjang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Padang Panjang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Padang Panjang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Padang Panjang”
  • Persian: “پادانگ پنجانگ”
  • Picard: “Padang Panjang”
  • Piemontese: “Padang Panjang”
  • Polish: “Padangpanjang”
  • Portuguese: “Padang Panjang”
  • Romanian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Romansh: “Padang Panjang”
  • Russian: “Паданг-Панджанг”
  • Russian: “Падангпанджанг”
  • Sardinian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Scots: “Padang Panjang”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Padang Panjang”
  • Serbian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Sicilian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Slovak: “Padang Panjang”
  • Slovenian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Spanish: “Padang Pandjang”
  • Spanish: “Padang Panjang”
  • Spanish: “Padangpanjang”
  • Sundanese: “Padang Panjang”
  • Swahili: “Padang Panjang”
  • Swedish: “Kota Padang Panjang”
  • Swedish: “Padang Panjang”
  • Swiss German: “Padang Panjang”
  • Turkish: “Padang Panjang”
  • Ukrainian: “Падангпанджанг”
  • Urdu: “پادانگ پانجانگ”
  • Venetian: “Padang Panjang”
  • Vietnamese: “Padang Panjang”
  • Vlaams: “Padang Panjang”
  • Volapük: “Padang Panjang”
  • Walloon: “Padang Panjang”
  • Welsh: “Padang Panjang”
  • Wolof: “Padang Panjang”
  • Zulu: “Padang Panjang”
  • “Padang Panjang”

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