Purwokerto
Purwokerto is a sleepy town in the Central Java province of Indonesia. It is a major transport hub, connecting major cities such as Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Cirebon.- Type: City with 293,000 residents
- Description: former administrative city and capital of Banyumas Regency, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Poerwakerta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include BRI Museum and Purwokerto railway station.
Purwokerto railway station
Railway station
Purwokerto Station is a large type A railway station located in West Purwokerto, Banyumas Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The station is located at an altitude of 75 m.
Purwokerto
- Categories: administrative city in Indonesia, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: Banyumas Regency, Banyumas, Central Java, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-7.4279° or 7° 25′ 40″ south
Longitude
109.2409° or 109° 14′ 27″ east
Population
293,000
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
IATA airport code
PWL
United Nations Location Code
ID PWL
Open location code
6P4FH6CR+R8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Purwokerto” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Purwokerto”
- Afrikaans: “Purwokerto”
- Arabic: “بوروكيرتو”
- Aragonese: “Purwokerto”
- Arpitan: “Purwokerto”
- Asturian: “Purwokerto”
- Basque: “Purwokerto”
- Bavarian: “Purwokerto”
- Bengali: “পুরওকার্তো”
- Breton: “Purwokerto”
- Catalan: “Purwokerto”
- Cebuano: “Purwokerto”
- Chinese: “普禾加多”
- Corsican: “Purwokerto”
- Croatian: “Purwokerto”
- Czech: “Purwokerto”
- Danish: “Purwokerto”
- Dutch: “Poerwokerto”
- Dutch: “Purwokerto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوروكيرتو”
- Esperanto: “Purwokerto”
- Estonian: “Purwokerto”
- Finnish: “Purwokerto”
- French: “Purwokerto”
- Friulian: “Purwokerto”
- Galician: “Purwokerto”
- Georgian: “პურვოკერტო”
- German: “Purwokerto”
- Greek: “Πουρβοκέρτο”
- Gujarati: “પૂર્વોકેર્ટો”
- Hindi: “पुरवकेरतो”
- Hungarian: “Purwokerto”
- Icelandic: “Purwokerto”
- Ido: “Purwokerto”
- Indonesian: “Kota Administratif Purwokerto”
- Indonesian: “Kota Purwokerto”
- Indonesian: “Kota Puwokerto”
- Indonesian: “Kotip Purwokerto”
- Indonesian: “Purwokerto”
- Interlingua: “Purwokerto”
- Interlingue: “Purwokerto”
- Irish: “Purwokerto”
- Italian: “Purwokerto”
- Japanese: “プルウォケルト”
- Javanese: “Kutha Purwakerta”
- Javanese: “Purwakerta”
- Kannada: “ಪುರ್ವೊಕರ್ಟೊ”
- Kongo: “Purwokerto”
- Korean: “푸르워케르토”
- Korean: “푸르워크르토”
- Latvian: “Purvokerto”
- Ligurian: “Purwokerto”
- Limburgan: “Purwokerto”
- Lithuanian: “Purokertas”
- Low German: “Purwokerto”
- Luxembourgish: “Purwokerto”
- Malagasy: “Purwokerto”
- Malay: “Purwokerto”
- Marathi: “पूर्वोक्एर्टो”
- Minangkabau: “Purwokerto”
- Narom: “Purwokerto”
- Neapolitan: “Purwokerto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Purwokerto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Purwokerto”
- Norwegian: “Purwokerto”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Purwokerto”
- Persian: “پور وکرتو”
- Persian: “پورووکرتو”
- Picard: “Purwokerto”
- Piemontese: “Purwokerto”
- Polish: “Purwokerto”
- Portuguese: “Purwokerto”
- Romanian: “Purwokerto”
- Romansh: “Purwokerto”
- Russian: “Пурвокерто”
- Sardinian: “Purwokerto”
- Scots: “Purwokerto”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Purwokerto”
- Serbian: “Purwokerto”
- Sicilian: “Purwokerto”
- Sinhala: “පුර්වොකර්ටෝ”
- Slovak: “Purwokerto”
- Slovenian: “Purwokerto”
- Spanish: “Purwokerto”
- Sundanese: “Purwokerto”
- Swahili: “Purwokerto”
- Swedish: “Purwokerto”
- Swiss German: “Purwokerto”
- Tamil: “புறஒகேர்டோ”
- Telugu: “పురవకేరతో”
- Thai: “ปูร์โวเคอร์โต”
- Turkish: “Purwokerto”
- Ukrainian: “Пурвокерто”
- Urdu: “پورووکیرتو”
- Venetian: “Purwokerto”
- Vietnamese: “Purwokerto”
- Vlaams: “Purwokerto”
- Volapük: “Purwokerto”
- Walloon: “Purwokerto”
- Welsh: “Purwokerto”
- Wolof: “Purwokerto”
- Zulu: “Purwokerto”
- “Kota Puwokerto”
- “Purwokerto”
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