Payakumbuh
Payakumbuh is the second largest city in West Sumatra province, Indonesia, with a population of 116,825 at the 2010 Census and 139,576 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid 2025 was 148,600.
- Type: City with 134,000 residents
- Description: city in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Kota Payakumbuh”, “Paja Kombo”, “Pajakoemboeh”, “PajaKumbuh”, “Payakumbuh City”, and “Rayakumbuh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Payakumbuh railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Limbukan.
Payakumbuh
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kota Kecil, Kotapraja, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: West Sumatra, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.2243° or 0° 13′ 27″ south
Longitude
100.6319° or 100° 37′ 55″ east
Population
134,000
Elevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)
Open location code
6PF2QJGJ+7Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Payakumbuh from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Payakumbuh” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Payakumbuh”
- Arabic: “باياكومبو”
- Arabic: “باياكومبوه”
- Armenian: “Պայակումբուհ”
- Balinese: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- Belarusian: “Паякумбух”
- Betawi: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- Catalan: “Payakumbuh”
- Cebuano: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- Cebuano: “Payakumbuh”
- Chinese: “Payakumbuh Chhī”
- Chinese: “巴爷公务”
- Chinese: “巴爺公務”
- Dutch: “Payakumbuh”
- Esperanto: “Pajakumbuh”
- Fijian: “Payakumbuh”
- French: “Payakumbuh”
- German: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- German: “Payakumbuh”
- Hebrew: “פאיאקומבוה”
- Indonesian: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- Indonesian: “Kota-Kecil Payakumbuh”
- Indonesian: “Kotapraja Payakumbuh”
- Indonesian: “Payakumbuh”
- Italian: “Payakumbuh”
- Japanese: “パヤクンブ”
- Javanese: “Kutha Payakumbuh”
- Javanese: “Payakumbuh”
- Komering: “Payakumbuh”
- Korean: “파야쿰부”
- Madurese: “Kotta Payakumbuh”
- Malagasy: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- Malay: “Payakumbuh”
- Malayalam: “പയകുമ്പു”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Payakumbuh Chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Koto Payakumbuh”
- Minangkabau: “Payokumbuah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Payakumbuh”
- Norwegian: “Payakumbuh”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Payakumbuh”
- Persian: “پایاکومبوش”
- Polish: “Payakumbuh”
- Russian: “Паякумбух”
- Spanish: “Payakumbuh”
- Sundanese: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- Sundanese: “Payakumbuh”
- Swedish: “Kota Payakumbuh”
- Swedish: “Payakumbuh”
- Tatar: “Паякумбуһ”
- Turkish: “Payakumbuh”
- Urdu: “پایاکومبوہ”
- Venetian: “Payakumbuh”
- Vietnamese: “Payakumbuh”
- “Kota Payakumbuh”
- “Payakumbuh”
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