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Solo

Solo the short name for Surakarta, is a major city in . Together with , these two great cultural centres are heirs of the Mataram kingdom that was split in 1755.
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  • Type: City with 503,000 residents
  • Description: city in Central Java Province, Indonesia
  • Also known as: “Soerakarta”, “Solo City”, “Surakarta”, “Surakarta City”, and “索罗”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Press Monument and Solo Balapan railway station.

Museum
Photo: Crisco 1492, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a monument and museum to the national Indonesian press. Formally established in 1978, more than 20 years after it was first proposed, the monument is located in Surakarta, , and operated by the Ministry of Communications and Informatics.

Railway station
Photo: Rizal Febri, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Solo Balapan Station is a major railway station in Surakarta, , . The name "Balapan" is taken from the name of a which is located to the north of the station.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Surakarta, , . Manahan is the first stadium in Indonesia which hosts the biggest disabled sporting event in Southeast Asia, the 2011 ASEAN Para Games.

Solo

Latitude
-7.5692° or 7° 34′ 9″ south
Longitude
110.8284° or 110° 49′ 42″ east
Population
503,000
Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)
IATA airport code
SOC
United Nations Location Code
ID SKT
Open location code
6P4GCRJH+89
Open­Street­Map ID
node 260119406
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1625812
Wiki­data ID
Q4803
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Solo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Surakarta”
  • Afrikaans: “Soerakarta”
  • Afrikaans: “Surakarta”
  • Arabic: “سوراكارتا”
  • Aragonese: “Surakarta”
  • Armenian: “Սուրակարտա”
  • Arpitan: “Surakarta”
  • Asturian: “Surakarta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Surakarta”
  • Balinese: “Kota Surakarta”
  • Balinese: “Surakarta”
  • Banjar: “Surakarta”
  • Basque: “Surakarta”
  • Batak Toba: “Surakarta”
  • Bavarian: “Surakarta”
  • Belarusian: “Сола”
  • Belarusian: “Суракарта”
  • Bengali: “সুরাকাটা”
  • Betawi: “Kota Surakarta”
  • Breton: “Surakarta”
  • Buginese: “kota Solo”
  • Buginese: “kota Surakareta”
  • Buginese: “Surakareta”
  • Buginese: “Surakarta”
  • Buginese: “Surakatta”
  • Buginese: “ᨀᨚᨈᨔᨚᨒᨚ”
  • Buginese: “ᨔᨘᨑᨀᨈ”
  • Buginese: “ᨔᨘᨑᨀᨑᨛᨈ”
  • Bulgarian: “Суракарта”
  • Catalan: “Surakarta”
  • Cebuano: “Surakarta”
  • Chinese: “Surakarta Chhī”
  • Chinese: “梭罗”
  • Chinese: “梭罗市”
  • Chinese: “梭羅”
  • Chinese: “苏拉卡尔塔”
  • Corsican: “Surakarta”
  • Croatian: “Surakarta”
  • Czech: “Surakarta”
  • Danish: “Surakarta”
  • Dutch: “Soerakarta”
  • Dutch: “Surakarta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوراكارتا”
  • Esperanto: “Surakarta”
  • Estonian: “Surakarta”
  • Finnish: “Surakarta”
  • French: “Surakarta”
  • French: “Ville de Solo”
  • Friulian: “Surakarta”
  • Galician: “Surakarta”
  • Georgian: “სურაკარტა”
  • German: “Surakarta”
  • Greek: “Σουρακάρτα”
  • Gujarati: “સુરાકર્તા”
  • Haitian: “Surakarta”
  • Hebrew: “סורקרטה”
  • Hindi: “सूराकार्ता”
  • Hungarian: “Surakarta”
  • Icelandic: “Surakarta”
  • Ido: “Surakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Solo”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Surakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Kotamadya Surakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Soerakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Solo”
  • Indonesian: “Surakarta”
  • Interlingua: “Surakarta”
  • Interlingue: “Surakarta”
  • Irish: “Surakarta”
  • Italian: “Surakarta”
  • Japanese: “スラカルタ”
  • Javanese: “Kitha Surakarta”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Surakarta”
  • Javanese: “Sala”
  • Javanese: “Surakarta”
  • Javanese: “ꦯꦭ”
  • Javanese: “ꦯꦴꦭ”
  • Javanese: “ꦯꦹꦫꦠꦂꦡ”
  • Javanese: “ꦱꦭ”
  • Javanese: “ꦱꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ”
  • Kannada: “ಸುರಕಾರ್ಟಾ”
  • Kongo: “Surakarta”
  • Korean: “솔로”
  • Korean: “수라카르타”
  • Latvian: “Surakarta”
  • Ligurian: “Surakarta”
  • Limburgan: “Surakarta”
  • Lithuanian: “Surakarta”
  • Low German: “Surakarta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Surakarta”
  • Macedonian: “Суракарта”
  • Madurese: “Kottha Surakarta”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Surakarta”
  • Malay: “Bandaraya Solo”
  • Malay: “Kota Solo”
  • Malay: “Kota Surakarta”
  • Malay: “Surakarta”
  • Marathi: “सुरकर्ता”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Surakarta Chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kota Surakarta”
  • Minangkabau: “Surakarta”
  • Narom: “Surakarta”
  • Neapolitan: “Surakarta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Surakarta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Surakarta”
  • Norwegian: “Surakarta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Surakarta”
  • Persian: “سوراکارتا”
  • Picard: “Surakarta”
  • Piemontese: “Surakarta”
  • Polish: “Surakarta”
  • Portuguese: “Suracarta”
  • Portuguese: “Surakarta”
  • Romanian: “Surakarta”
  • Romansh: “Surakarta”
  • Russian: “Соло”
  • Russian: “Суракарта”
  • Russian: “Суракарте”
  • Sardinian: “Surakarta”
  • Scots: “Surakarta”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Surakarta”
  • Serbian: “Surakarta”
  • Sicilian: “Surakarta”
  • Silesian: “Surakarta”
  • Sindhi: “سراڪارٽا”
  • Sinhala: “සුරකර්තා”
  • Slovak: “Surakarta”
  • Slovenian: “Surakarta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوراکارتا”
  • Spanish: “Surakarta”
  • Sundanese: “Kota Surakarta”
  • Swahili: “Surakarta”
  • Swedish: “Surakarta”
  • Swiss German: “Surakarta”
  • Tamil: “சுராகார்த்தா”
  • Tatar: “Суракарта”
  • Telugu: “సురకార్త”
  • Thai: “ซูราการ์ตา”
  • Turkish: “Surakarta”
  • Ukrainian: “Суракарта”
  • Urdu: “سوراکارتا”
  • Uzbek: “Surakarta”
  • Venetian: “Surakarta”
  • Vietnamese: “Surakarta”
  • Vlaams: “Surakarta”
  • Volapük: “Surakarta”
  • Walloon: “Surakarta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Surakarta”
  • Welsh: “Surakarta”
  • Western Panjabi: “سوراکارتا”
  • Wolof: “Surakarta”
  • Wu Chinese: “梭罗 (印度尼西亚)”
  • Wu Chinese: “梭罗（印度尼西亚）”
  • Yue Chinese: “梭羅”
  • Zulu: “Surakarta”
  • “Kota Surakarta”
  • “Surakarta”

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