Pekanbaru
Pekanbaru is the capital of Riau province in Indonesia. It is a centre of oil production. Pekanbaru has the reputation of being one of the cleanest big cities in Indonesia, and is the third largest city of the island of Sumatra after Medan and Palembang.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 1,170,000 residents
- Description: city in Riau Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Pakanbahru”, “PBR”, and “Pekanbaru City”
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Pekanbaru
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
0.5262° or 0° 31′ 35″ northLongitude
101.4516° or 101° 27′ 6″ eastPopulation
1,170,000Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)IATA airport code
PKUUnited Nations Location Code
ID PKUOpen location code
6PG3GFG2+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 5654074539OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1631761Wikidata ID
Q7786
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Pekanbaru” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pekanbaru”
- Afrikaans: “Pekanbaroe”
- Albanian: “Pekanbaru”
- Arabic: “بيكانبارو”
- Arabic: “بيكنبارو”
- Aragonese: “Pekanbaru”
- Armenian: “Պեկանբարու”
- Arpitan: “Pekanbaru”
- Asturian: “Pekanbaru”
- Azerbaijani: “پکانبارو”
- Balinese: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Balinese: “Pekanbaru”
- Basque: “Pekanbaru”
- Bavarian: “Pekanbaru”
- Belarusian: “Пеканбару”
- Bengali: “পেকানবারু”
- Betawi: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Breton: “Pekanbaru”
- Bulgarian: “Пеканбару”
- Burmese: “ပီကန်းဘာရူးမြို့”
- Catalan: “Pekanbaru”
- Cebuano: “Pekanbaru”
- Chinese: “Pekanbaru Chhī”
- Chinese: “北乾巴魯”
- Chinese: “北干巴魯”
- Chinese: “北干巴鲁”
- Corsican: “Pekanbaru”
- Croatian: “Pekanbaru”
- Czech: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Czech: “Pekanbaru”
- Danish: “Pekanbaru”
- Dutch: “Pakan baroe”
- Dutch: “Pakanbaroe”
- Dutch: “Pekanbaru”
- Esperanto: “Pekanbaru”
- Estonian: “Pekanbaru”
- Fijian: “Pekanbaru”
- Finnish: “Pekanbaru”
- French: “Pekanbaru”
- Friulian: “Pekanbaru”
- Galician: “Pekanbaru”
- Georgian: “პეკანბარუ”
- German: “Pekanbaru”
- Gorontalo: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Greek: “Πεκανμπάρου”
- Gujarati: “પેકનબરૂ”
- Hebrew: “פקאנבארו”
- Hebrew: “פקנבארו”
- Hebrew: “פקנברו”
- Hindi: “पिकांबारु”
- Hungarian: “Pekanbaru”
- Icelandic: “Pekanbaru”
- Ido: “Pekanbaru”
- Indonesian: “Kota Pekan Baru”
- Indonesian: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Indonesian: “Pakanbaru”
- Indonesian: “Pekan Baru”
- Indonesian: “Pekanbaru”
- Interlingua: “Pekanbaru”
- Interlingue: “Pekanbaru”
- Irish: “Pekanbaru”
- Italian: “Pekanbaru”
- Japanese: “プカンバル”
- Javanese: “Kutha Pekanbaru”
- Javanese: “Pekanbaru”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಕನ್ಬರು”
- Komering: “Pekanbaru”
- Kongo: “Pekanbaru”
- Korean: “페칸바루”
- Korean: “프칸바루”
- Latvian: “Pekanbaru”
- Ligurian: “Pekanbaru”
- Limburgan: “Pekanbaru”
- Lithuanian: “Pekanbaru”
- Low German: “Pekanbaru”
- Luxembourgish: “Pekanbaru”
- Malagasy: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Malay: “Pekanbaru”
- Malay: “ڤکن بارو”
- Malay: “ڤکنبارو”
- Malayalam: “പെക്കൻബാരു”
- Marathi: “पेकणबरु”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pekanbaru”
- Minangkabau: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Minangkabau: “Koto Pekanbaru”
- Moksha: “Пэканбару”
- Narom: “Pekanbaru”
- Neapolitan: “Pekanbaru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pekanbaru”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pekanbaru”
- Norwegian: “Pekanbaru”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pekanbaru”
- Ossetian: “Пеканбару”
- Persian: “پکانبارو”
- Picard: “Pekanbaru”
- Piemontese: “Pekanbaru”
- Polish: “Pekanbaru”
- Portuguese: “Pekanbaru”
- Romanian: “Pekanbaru”
- Romansh: “Pekanbaru”
- Russian: “Паканбару”
- Russian: “Пеканбару”
- Sardinian: “Pekanbaru”
- Scots: “Pekanbaru”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Pekanbaru”
- Serbian: “Pekanbaru”
- Sicilian: “Pekanbaru”
- Sinhala: “පෙකන්බරු”
- Slovak: “Pekanbaru”
- Slovenian: “Pekanbaru”
- South Azerbaijani: “پکانبارو”
- Spanish: “Pekanbaroe”
- Spanish: “Pekanbaru”
- Sundanese: “Kota Pekanbaru”
- Sundanese: “Pekanbaru”
- Swahili: “Pekanbaru”
- Swedish: “Pekanbaru”
- Swiss German: “Pekanbaru”
- Tagalog: “Pekanbaru”
- Tamil: “பெக்கான்பாரு”
- Tatar: “Пеканбару”
- Telugu: “పేకంబరు”
- Thai: “เปอกันบารู”
- Turkish: “Pekanbaru”
- Ukrainian: “Пеканбару”
- Urdu: “پکانبارو”
- Venetian: “Pekanbaru”
- Vietnamese: “Pekanbaru”
- Vlaams: “Pekanbaru”
- Volapük: “Pekanbaru”
- Walloon: “Pekanbaru”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pekanbaru”
- Welsh: “Pekanbaru”
- Western Panjabi: “پیکانبارو”
- Wolof: “Pekanbaru”
- Wu Chinese: “北干巴鲁”
- Yue Chinese: “北乾巴魯”
- Zulu: “Pekanbaru”
- “Kota Pekanbaru”
- “Pekanbaru”
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