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.
- Type: City with 1,190,000 residents
- Description: city in Riau Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Pakanbahru”, “PBR”, and “Pekanbaru City”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Pekanbaru
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kota Kecil, Kotapraja, and locality
- Location: Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
0.5262° or 0° 31′ 35″ north
Longitude
101.4516° or 101° 27′ 6″ east
Population
1,190,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
PKU
United Nations Location Code
ID PKU
Open location code
6PG3GFG2+FJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Dzongkha: “པོ་ཀེན་བཱ་རུ་ གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- 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: “Kota-Kecil Pakan Baru”
- Indonesian: “Kotapraja Pakan Baru”
- Indonesian: “Kotapraja Pakanbaru”
- Indonesian: “Pakan Baru”
- 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”
- 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”
- “Pakan Baru”
- “Pakanbaru”
- “Pekanbaru”
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