South Sumatra

South Sumatra is a province of , located in the southeast of the island of . Notwithstanding the name, it is not the most southern of the provinces on Sumatra island.
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South Sumatra

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Latitude of center
-3.1931° or 3° 11′ 35″ south
Longitude of center
104.0181° or 104° 1′ 5″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14170023865
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1626196
Wiki­data ID
Q2271

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“South Sumatra” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ruja Tunong”
  • Achinese: “Sumatra Seulatan”
  • Afrikaans: “Suid-Sumatra”
  • Amharic: “ደቡብ ሱማትራ”
  • Arabic: “سومطرة الجنوبية”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənub Sumatra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənubi Sumatra”
  • Balinese: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Balinese: “Sumatra Selatan”
  • Basque: “Hego Sumatra”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ সুমাত্রা”
  • Betawi: “Sumatra Kidul”
  • Breton: “Su Sumatra”
  • Bulgarian: “Южна Суматра”
  • Catalan: “Sumatra Meridional”
  • Cebuano: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Chinese: “南苏门答腊省”
  • Czech: “Jižní Sumatra”
  • Danish: “Sydsumatra”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Sumatra”
  • Dzongkha: “ལྷོ་སུ་མ་ཏྲ་ ས་གནས།”
  • Esperanto: “Sud-Sumatro”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Sumatro”
  • Finnish: “Etelä-Sumatra”
  • French: “Sumatra du Sud”
  • Galician: “Sumatra Meridional”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთი სუმატრა”
  • German: “Provinz Südsumatra”
  • German: “Süd-Sumatra”
  • German: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • German: “Sumatra Selatan”
  • Gorontalo: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Gorontalo: “Sumatra Selatan”
  • Greek: “Νότια Σουμάτρα”
  • Gujarati: “સાઉથ સુમાત્રા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nàm Sû-mùn-tap-lia̍p-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nàm Sumatera”
  • Hausa: “Kudu Sumatra”
  • Hebrew: “דרום סומטרה”
  • Hindi: “दक्षिण सुमात्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Dél-Szumátra”
  • Iloko: “Abagatan a Sumatra”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Tingkat I Sumatera Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Sumatera - Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Sumatera Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Sumatera-Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Sumatra Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Prov. Sumatera Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “provinsi Sumatera Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Sumatera Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Sumatra Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Sumsel”
  • Irish: “Sumatra Theas”
  • Italian: “Sumatra Meridionale”
  • Japanese: “南スマトラ”
  • Japanese: “南スマトラ州”
  • Javanese: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Javanese: “Sumatra Kidul”
  • Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಸುಮಾತ್ರ”
  • Kazakh: “Оңтүстік Сумматра”
  • Kirghiz: “Түштүк Суматра”
  • Komering: “Sumatera Hulu”
  • Komering: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Korean: “남수마트라주”
  • Korean: “수마트라슬라탄 주”
  • Korean: “수마트라슬라탄주”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidsumatra”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Sumatra”
  • Madurese: “Somattra Lao’”
  • Madurese: “Sumatra Lao‘”
  • Malay: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Malay: “سوماترا سلاتن”
  • Malayalam: “തെക്കൻ സുമാത്ര”
  • Marathi: “दक्षिण सुमात्रा”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوبی سوماترا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nàng Sumatra”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm Sumatera Séng”
  • Minangkabau: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Mongolian: “Өмнө Суматра”
  • Mongolian: “Өмнөд Суматра”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sumatra Selatan”
  • Northern Luri: “سوماترا هارگه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Norwegian: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Oromo: “Kibbaa Sumaatra”
  • Pampanga: “Mauling Sumatra”
  • Pampanga: “South Sumatra”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣ ਸੁਮਾਤਰਾ”
  • Persian: “سوماترای جنوبی”
  • Polish: “Sumatra Południowa”
  • Portuguese: “Sumatra do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Sumatra Meridional”
  • Pushto: “سویلي سومطره”
  • Russian: “Южная Суматра”
  • Scots: “Sooth Sumatra”
  • Serbian: “Јужна Суматра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Južna Sumatra”
  • Sinhala: “දකුණු සුමාත්‍රා පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
  • Sinhala: “දකුණු සුමාත්‍රා”
  • Slovenian: “Južna Sumatra”
  • Somali: “Koonfur Sumaatra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گونئی سوماترای”
  • Spanish: “provincia de Sumatra Meridional”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Sumatra Meridional”
  • Spanish: “Sumatra Meridional”
  • Sundanese: “Sumatra Kidul”
  • Swahili: “Sumatra Kusini”
  • Swedish: “Södra Sumatra”
  • Swedish: “Sumatera Selatan”
  • Swedish: “Sumatra Selatan”
  • Tajik: “Сумматраи Ҷануб”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு சுமத்ரா”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு சுமாத்திரா மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு சுமாத்திரா”
  • Tamil: “தெற்குச் சுமாத்திரா”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Суматра”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Сумматра”
  • Telugu: “దక్షిణ సుమత్ర”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดสุมาตราใต้”
  • Turkish: “Güney Sumatra”
  • Ukrainian: “Південна Суматра”
  • Urdu: “جنوبی سماٹرا”
  • Uzbek: “Janubiy Sumatera”
  • Venetian: “Sumatra Meridional”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Sumatera”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Nam Sumatra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salatan nga Sumatra”
  • Welsh: “De Sumatra”
  • Western Armenian: “Հարաւային Սումաթրա”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ دکھنی سماٹرا”
  • Western Panjabi: “لما سماٹرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “南蘇門答臘省”
  • Yue Chinese: “南蘇門答臘”
  • “ma Sumata Salatan”

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