Palembang

Palembang, also called Pelembang by the locals, is 's provincial capital of . Situated on the lowlands where the Ogan, Komering, and Musi Rivers meet, the Palembang metropolitan area is home to more than two million people.
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  • Type: City with 1,710,000 residents
  • Description: city in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Kota Besar Palembang”, “Kotapraja Palembang”, “Pa-lîm-pâng”, “Palembang City”, “Palembanga”, “PLG”, “פאלמבאנג”, “פלמבנג”, “بالمبانك”, “巴林冯”, “巴林馮”, “巴邻旁”, “巴鄰傍”, “巴鄰旁”, “浡淋邦”, and “舊港”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bumi Sriwijaya Stadium and Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Museum.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Palembang, , .

Museum
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is a municipal museum in Palembang, .

Railway station
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Bumi Sriwijaya Station is a station of the Palembang LRT Line 1, located in Ilir Barat I, Palembang.

Palembang

Latitude
-2.9888° or 2° 59′ 20″ south
Longitude
104.7569° or 104° 45′ 25″ east
Population
1,710,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
PLM
UN/LOCODE
ID PLM
Open location code
6P962Q64+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2081450443
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1633070
Wiki­data ID
Q8131
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Palembang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Palèmbang”
  • Afrikaans: “Palembang”
  • Albanian: “Palembang”
  • Arabic: “باليمبانج”
  • Arabic: “باليمبانق”
  • Arabic: “فلمبان”
  • Armenian: “Պալեմբանգ”
  • Asturian: “Palembang”
  • Azerbaijani: “Palembanq”
  • Balinese: “Kota Palémbang”
  • Balinese: “Palémbang”
  • Balinese: “ᬧᬮᬾᬫ᭄ᬩᬂ”
  • Basque: “Palembang”
  • Batak Toba: “Kota Palembang”
  • Belarusian: “Палембанг”
  • Bengali: “পালেমবাং”
  • Betawi: “Kota Pelèmbang”
  • Bulgarian: “Палембанг”
  • Burmese: “ဖလန်းပင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Palembang”
  • Cebuano: “Kota Palembang”
  • Cebuano: “Palembang”
  • Chechen: “Палембанг”
  • Chinese: “巨港”
  • Croatian: “Palembang”
  • Czech: “Palembang”
  • Danish: “Palembang”
  • Dutch: “Palembang”
  • Dzongkha: “པ་ལེམ་ལེང་ གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فلمبانج”
  • Esperanto: “Palembang”
  • Fijian: “Palembang”
  • Finnish: “Palembang”
  • French: “Palembang”
  • Georgian: “პალემბანგი”
  • German: “Palembang”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Palembang”
  • Greek: “Παλεμπάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “પાલેમ્બાંગ”
  • Hebrew: “פלמבאנג”
  • Hindi: “पालेमबांग”
  • Hungarian: “Palembang”
  • Icelandic: “Palembang”
  • Ido: “Palembang”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Palembang”
  • Indonesian: “Palembang”
  • Irish: “Palembang”
  • Italian: “Palembang”
  • Japanese: “パレンバン”
  • Javanese: “Kota Palembang”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Palembang”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Palémbang”
  • Kalaallisut: “Palembang”
  • Kannada: “ಪಲೆಂಬಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪಾಲೆಂಬಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Палембанг”
  • Kirghiz: “Палембанг”
  • Komering: “Palembang”
  • Komering: “Palimbang”
  • Korean: “팔렘방”
  • Latvian: “Palembana”
  • Lithuanian: “Palembangas”
  • Madurese: “Kotta Palèmbang”
  • Malagasy: “Palembang”
  • Malay: “Palembang”
  • Malay: “ڤاليمبڠ”
  • Malayalam: “പാലെമ്പാങ്”
  • Maori: “Palembang”
  • Marathi: “पालेंबांग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palembang Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “旧港”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Palembang”
  • Minangkabau: “Palambang”
  • Musi: “Pelémbang”
  • Nias: “Kota Palembang”
  • Northern Frisian: “Palembang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palembang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palembang”
  • Norwegian: “Palembang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Palembang”
  • Ossetian: “Палембанг”
  • Persian: “پالمبانگ”
  • Persian: “پالم‌بانگ”
  • Polish: “Palembang”
  • Portuguese: “Palimbão”
  • Romanian: “Palembang”
  • Russia Buriat: “Палембанг”
  • Russian: “Палембанг”
  • Scots: “Palembang”
  • Serbian: “Палембанг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palembang”
  • Silesian: “Palembang”
  • Sinhala: “පෙලෙම්බන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Palembang”
  • Slovenian: “Palembang”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالم‌بانگ”
  • Spanish: “Palembang”
  • Sundanese: “Kota Palémbang”
  • Sundanese: “Palémbang”
  • Swahili: “Palembang”
  • Swedish: “Palembang”
  • Tagalog: “Palembang”
  • Tamil: “பலெம்பாங்”
  • Tatar: “Палембаң”
  • Telugu: “పాలెంబాంగ్”
  • Thai: “ปาเล็มบัง”
  • Turkish: “Palembang”
  • Ukrainian: “Палембанг”
  • Ukrainian: “Палембанґ”
  • Urdu: “پالمبانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Palembang”
  • Venetian: “Palembang”
  • Vietnamese: “Palembang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palembang”
  • Western Panjabi: “پالیمبانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巨港”
  • Yue Chinese: “巨港”
  • “ma Palenpan”
  • “Palembang”

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Localities in the Area

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