Riau
Riau is an oil-rich province on the east coast of Sumatra. In 2004, the eastern islands of the province near Singapore were carved off into the new province of Riau Islands, covered separately.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Pekanbaru and Dumai.
Pekanbaru
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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.
Dumai
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Dumai is the main port city in Riau province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Typical of such cities, it is quite seedy and there is nothing really much to do once you have arrived except to get out as soon as you can.
Tesso Nilo National Park
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Tesso Nilo National Park is an Indonesian National Park in central Sumatra's Riau province. Created in 2004 to help preserve Sumatran tigers and Asiatic elephants, development of tourism within the park is still in its infancy.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Selatpanjang and Rangsang.
Selatpanjang
Selat Panjang is a city in the province of Riau, located on the island of Tebing Tinggi, just off the coast of mainland Sumatra.
Rangsang
Rangsang is an island in the Riau province of Indonesia, between Sumatra and Singapore. It was home to 51,000 people in 2010.Siak Sri Indrapura
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Siak Sri Indrapura is a town in Riau province of Indonesia and it is the capital of Siak Regency.
Riau
- Type: State with 6,490,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra
- Also known as: “Riau Province”, “Riauw”, “Riouw”, and “Siak Sri indrapura”
- Neighbors: Jambi, Malaysia, North Sumatra, Riau Islands, and West Sumatra
- Categories: province of Indonesia, first-level administrative country subdivision in Indonesia, and locality
- Location: Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
0.5004° or 0° 30′ 2″ northLongitude of center
101.5476° or 101° 32′ 51″ eastPopulation
6,490,000Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1898283470OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Riau” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Riau”
- Arabic: “رياو”
- Azerbaijani: “Riau”
- Balinese: “Riau”
- Banjar: “Riau”
- Basque: “Riau”
- Batak Mandailing: “Riau”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Рыау”
- Belarusian: “Рыау”
- Bengali: “রিয়াউ”
- Betawi: “Rio”
- Bulgarian: “Риау”
- Catalan: “Riau”
- Cebuano: “Provinsi Riau”
- Chinese: “Riau Séng”
- Chinese: “廖內”
- Chinese: “廖內省”
- Chinese: “廖内省”
- Czech: “Riau”
- Danish: “Riau”
- Dutch: “Riau”
- Esperanto: “Riauo”
- Esperanto: “Riaŭo”
- Extremaduran: “Riau”
- Finnish: “Riau”
- French: “Riau”
- Georgian: “რიაუ”
- German: “Provinz Riau”
- German: “Riau”
- Gorontalo: “Riau”
- Greek: “Ριάου”
- Gujarati: “રિયાઉ પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Riau”
- Hebrew: “ריאו”
- Hindi: “रियाउ प्रांत”
- Hindi: “रियाउ”
- Hungarian: “Riau”
- Iloko: “Riau”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Tingkat I Riau”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Riau”
- Indonesian: “Prov. Riau”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Riau”
- Indonesian: “Riau”
- Irish: “Riau”
- Italian: “Riau”
- Japanese: “リアウ”
- Japanese: “リアウ州”
- Javanese: “Riau”
- Kannada: “ರಿಯು ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Komering: “Riau”
- Korean: “리아우주”
- Latvian: “Riau province”
- Latvian: “Riau”
- Lithuanian: “Riau”
- Madurese: “Riau”
- Malay: “Riau”
- Malay: “رياو”
- Malayalam: “റിയാവു”
- Marathi: “रियाउ प्रांत”
- Marathi: “रियाउ”
- Mazanderani: “ریائو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Riau”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Riau Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Riau”
- Mongolian: “Риау”
- Northern Frisian: “Riau”
- Northern Luri: “ریائو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riau”
- Norwegian: “Riau”
- Ossetian: “Риау”
- Pampanga: “Riau”
- Persian: “ریائو”
- Polish: “Riau”
- Portuguese: “Riau”
- Russian: “Riau”
- Russian: “Риау”
- Serbian: “Ријау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Riau”
- Sinhala: “රියාවු පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Sinhala: “රියෞ පළාත”
- Slovak: “Riau”
- Slovenian: “Riau”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریائو”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Riau”
- Spanish: “Riau”
- Sundanese: “Riau”
- Swedish: “Riau”
- Tagalog: “Riau”
- Tamil: “இந்தோனேசியாவில் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “ரிஆ மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “ரியாவு”
- Tatar: “Риау”
- Telugu: “రియాయూ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “రియాయూ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดรีเยา”
- Turkish: “Riau”
- Ukrainian: “Ріау”
- Urdu: “ریاو”
- Vietnamese: “Riau”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Riau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Riau”
- Welsh: “Riau”
- Western Armenian: “Ռիաու”
- Western Panjabi: “ریاؤ”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ ریاؤ”
- Wu Chinese: “廖内省”
- Yue Chinese: “廖內”
- “Riau”
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