Sumatra

Sumatra is a region of and the sixth largest island in the world. Wild and rugged, Sumatra has great natural wealth.
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is a very large city on the north coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, and the capital and largest city of province. isn't a tourist destination, but it's a convenient stepping stone to other places like the 'weekend getaway' , the island of , Malaysia, and the popular, beautiful crater lake, .

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, on the island of Sumatra in , is the largest volcanic lake in the world. Samosir island, in the lake, is an island within an island. It is in .

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, also called Pelembang by the locals, is 's provincial capital of . Situated on the lowlands where the Ogan, Komering, and Musi Rivers meet, the metropolitan area is home to more than two million people.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: North Sumatra and West Sumatra.

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is a province in the north 's Sumatra Island. Various tourist destinations can be found throughout the province, Berastagi is best known as a hilly place with a cooler temperature as the whole province is in tropical region.

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is a province of . It is on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the off that coast. borders the Indian Ocean to the west, as well as the provinces of to the north, to the northeast, to the southeast, and to the south.

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The is a province of Indonesia consisting of a group of islands located in the western part of the country. It was established in 2002 after being separated from the neighboring Province.

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is a province and special territory of , in the northwestern part of the island of Sumatra. It has a population of 4.2 million. Its major towns include: , , , Sigli, and Calang.

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, officially the Province of , is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra. It has a short border with the province of to the northwest, and a longer border with the province of to the north, as well as a maritime border with the provinces of and to the east.

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, cutely abbreviated Babel, is a province in consisting of the islands of Bangka and Belitung, just off the south-eastern coast of Sumatra.

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

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is an oil-rich province on the east coast of Sumatra. In 2004, the eastern islands of the province near were carved off into the new province of , covered separately.

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is a province of . It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and stretches to the in the west. Its capital and largest city is also called .

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, historically known as Bencoolen, is a province of . It is located on the southwest coast of Sumatra. It was formed on 18 November 1968 by separating out the area of the historic Bencoolen Residency from the province of under Law No.

Sumatra

  • Type: Island with 50,400,000 residents
  • Description: island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands
  • Also known as: “Andalas”, “Andalus”, “ma telo Sumala”, “ma telo Sumatela”, “ma telo Sumatra”, “Pulau Andalas”, “Pulau Perca”, “Pulau Sumatra”, “Samatra”, “Sumatera Island”, “Sumatra Island”, “Sumatra, Indonesia”, and “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന്‍ ദീപ്”
  • Location: , ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
0°
Longitude of center
102° east
Population
50,400,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
UN/LOCODE
ID TRA
Geo­Names ID
1626198
Wiki­data ID
Q3492
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Sumatra” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ruja”
  • Afrikaans: “Soematra”
  • Afrikaans: “Sumatra”
  • Albanian: “Sumatra”
  • Amharic: “ሱማትራ”
  • Arabic: “سومطرة”
  • Aragonese: “Sumatra”
  • Armenian: “Սումատրա”
  • Asturian: “Sumatra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sumatra”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Sumatera”
  • Balinese: “Sumatra”
  • Banjar: “Sumatera”
  • Bashkir: “Суматра”
  • Basque: “Sumatra”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Sumatera”
  • Batak Toba: “Sumatera”
  • Batak Toba: “Sumatra”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Суматра”
  • Belarusian: “Суматра”
  • Bengali: “সুমাত্রা”
  • Bosnian: “Sumatra”
  • Breton: “Sumatera”
  • Bulgarian: “Суматра”
  • Burmese: “ဆူမတြာကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Sumatra”
  • Cebuano: “Sumatra”
  • Central Bikol: “Sumatra”
  • Chamorro: “Sumatra”
  • Chinese: “苏门答腊”
  • Chinese: “蘇門答臘”
  • Chinese: “蘇門答臘島”
  • Croatian: “Sumatra”
  • Czech: “Sumatra”
  • Danish: “Sumatra”
  • Dutch: “Sumatra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سومطره”
  • Esperanto: “Sumatro”
  • Estonian: “Sumatra”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sumatra”
  • Finnish: “Sumatra”
  • French: “Sumatra”
  • Galician: “Sumatra”
  • Georgian: “სუმატრა”
  • German: “Sumatra”
  • Gorontalo: “Sumatra”
  • Greek: “Σουμάτρα”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sû-mùn-tap-lia̍p”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sumatra”
  • Hausa: “Sumatra”
  • Hebrew: “סומטרה”
  • Hindi: “सुमात्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Szumátra”
  • Iban: “Sumatera”
  • Icelandic: “Súmatra”
  • Ido: “Sumatra”
  • Iloko: “Sumatra”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Sumatera”
  • Indonesian: “Sumatera”
  • Indonesian: “Sumatra”
  • Interlingua: “Sumatra”
  • Interlingue: “Sumatra”
  • Irish: “Sumatra”
  • Italian: “Sumatra”
  • Japanese: “スマトラ島”
  • Javanese: “Sumatera”
  • Javanese: “Sumatra”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sumatra”
  • Kazakh: “Суматра”
  • Khmer: “កោះស៊ូម៉ាត្រា”
  • Kirghiz: “Суматра”
  • Komering: “Pulau Sumatera”
  • Komering: “Sumatora”
  • Korean: “수마트라 섬”
  • Korean: “수마트라섬”
  • Korean: “쑤마떼라”
  • Lao: “ເກາະສຸມາຕຣາ”
  • Latin: “Sumatra”
  • Latvian: “Sumatra”
  • Limburgan: “Sumatra”
  • Lithuanian: “Sumatra”
  • Lombard: “Sumatra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sumatra”
  • Macedonian: “Суматра”
  • Madurese: “Polo Somattra”
  • Maithili: “सुमात्रा”
  • Malagasy: “Somatra”
  • Malagasy: “Sumatra”
  • Malay: “Sumatera”
  • Malay: “سوماترا”
  • Malayalam: “സുമാത്ര”
  • Maori: “Humatā”
  • Marathi: “सुमात्रा”
  • Mazanderani: “سوماترا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sumatera”
  • Minangkabau: “Sumatera”
  • Minangkabau: “Sumatra”
  • Mingrelian: “სუმატრა”
  • Nepali: “सुमात्रा”
  • Newari: “𑐳𑐸𑐩𑐵𑐟𑑂𑐬𑐵”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sumatra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumatra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sumatra”
  • Norwegian: “Sumatra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sumatra”
  • Oriya: “ସୁମାତ୍ରା”
  • Ossetian: “Суматрæ”
  • Pampanga: “Sumatra”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੁਮਾਤਰਾ”
  • Persian: “سوماترا”
  • Piemontese: “Sumatra”
  • Polish: “Sumatra”
  • Portuguese: “Sumatra”
  • Romanian: “Sumatra”
  • Russian: “Суматра”
  • Samogitian: “Sumatra”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱩᱢᱟᱛᱨᱟ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Sumatra”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sumatra”
  • Serbian: “Суматра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sumatra”
  • Shona: “Sumatara”
  • Sicilian: “Sumatra”
  • Silesian: “Sůmatra”
  • Sindhi: “سماٽرا”
  • Sinhala: “සුමාත්‍රා”
  • Slovak: “Sumatra”
  • Slovenian: “Sumatra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوماترا”
  • Spanish: “Sumatra”
  • Sundanese: “Sumatra”
  • Swahili: “Sumatra”
  • Swedish: “Sumatra”
  • Swiss German: “Sumatra”
  • Tagalog: “Sumatra”
  • Tamil: “சுமாத்திரா”
  • Tatar: “Суматра”
  • Thai: “เกาะสุมาตรา”
  • Turkish: “Sumatra”
  • Ukrainian: “Суматра”
  • Urdu: “سماٹرا”
  • Uzbek: “Sumatra”
  • Venetian: “Sumatra”
  • Veps: “Sumatr”
  • Vietnamese: “Sumatra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sumatra”
  • Welsh: “Sumatera”
  • Western Frisian: “Sumatra”
  • Western Mari: “Суматра”
  • Western Panjabi: “سماٹرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏门答腊岛”
  • Yakut: “Суматра”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇門答臘”
  • “ma Sumata”
  • “ma telo Sumata”
  • “Sumatra”

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