Sumatra
Sumatra is a region of Indonesia and the sixth largest island in the world. Wild and rugged, Sumatra has great natural wealth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Medan and Lake Toba.
Medan
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Medan is a very large city on the north coast of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, and the capital and largest city of North Sumatra province. Medan isn't a tourist destination, but it's a convenient stepping stone to other places like the 'weekend getaway' Berastagi, the island of Penang, Malaysia, and the popular, beautiful crater lake, Lake Toba.
Lake Toba
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Lake Toba, on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, is the largest volcanic lake in the world. Samosir island, in the lake, is an island within an island. It is in North Sumatra.
Palembang
Palembang, also called Pelembang by the locals, is Indonesia's provincial capital of South Sumatra with 1.7 million people.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as North Sumatra and West Sumatra.
North Sumatra
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North Sumatra is a province in the north Indonesia'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.
West Sumatra
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West Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It is on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast. West Sumatra borders the Indian Ocean to the west, as well as the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau to the northeast, Jambi to the southeast, and Bengkulu to the south.
Riau Islands
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The Riau Islands 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 Riau Province.
Aceh
Aceh is a province and special territory of Indonesia, in the northwestern part of the island of Sumatra. It has a population of 4.2 million. Its major towns include: Banda Aceh, Lhokseumawe, Meulaboh, Sigli, and Calang.
Lampung
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Lampung, officially the Province of Lampung, 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 Bengkulu to the northwest, and a longer border with the province of South Sumatra to the north, as well as a maritime border with the provinces of Banten and Jakarta to the east.
Bangka-Belitung
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Bangka-Belitung, cutely abbreviated Babel, is a province in Indonesia consisting of the islands of Bangka and Belitung, just off the south-eastern coast of Sumatra.
South Sumatra
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South Sumatra is a province of Indonesia, located in the southeast of the island of Sumatra. The capital and largest city of the province is the city of Palembang.
Riau
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Riau is a province in Sumatra. It is located on the east coast of the island and is rich in oil. In 2004, the eastern islands of the province near Singapore were carved off into the new province of Riau Islands, covered separately.
Jambi
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Jambi is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and stretches to the Barisan Mountains in the west. Its capital and largest city is also called Jambi.
Bengkulu
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Bengkulu, historically known as Bencoolen, is a province of Indonesia. 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 South Sumatra 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”, “Pulau Sumatera”, “Sumatera”, “Sumatera Island”, “Sumatra Island”, and “Sumatra, Indonesia”
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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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: “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: “Sumatera”
- Chinese: “苏门答腊”
- Chinese: “蘇門答臘”
- Chinese: “蘇門答臘島”
- Croatian: “Sumatra”
- Czech: “Sumatra”
- Danish: “Sumatra”
- Dutch: “Sumatera”
- Dutch: “Sumatra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سومطره”
- Esperanto: “Kategorio:Sumatro”
- 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 Andalas”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Perca”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sumatera”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sumatra”
- 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: “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന് ദീപ്”
- Malayalam: “സുമാത്ര”
- Marathi: “सुमात्रा”
- Mazanderani: “سوماترا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sumatera”
- Minangkabau: “Sumatera”
- Minangkabau: “Sumatra”
- Mingrelian: “სუმატრა”
- Nepali: “सुमात्रा”
- 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: “Samatra”
- Portuguese: “Sumatra”
- Romanian: “Sumatra”
- Russian: “Суматра”
- Samogitian: “Sumatra”
- Santali: “ᱥᱩᱢᱟᱛᱨᱟ”
- Saterfriesisch: “Sumatra”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sumatra”
- Serbian: “Sumatera”
- Serbian: “Суматра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sumatra”
- Shona: “Sumatara”
- Sicilian: “Sumatra”
- Silesian: “Sůmatra”
- 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”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sumatra”
- 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”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇門答臘”
- “Andalas”
- “Andalus”
- “ma telo Sumala”
- “ma telo Sumata”
- “ma telo Sumatela”
- “ma telo Sumatra”
- “Ruja”
- “Sumatera”
- “Sumatr”
- “Sumatra”
- “Sumatro”
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