Surabaya
Surabaya is a city on the eastern side of the island of Java and is the capital of the East Java province of Indonesia. It is the second largest city in the country with over 10 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area.
Photo: Davidelit, Public domain.
- Type: City with 2,770,000 residents
- Description: city in East Java Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Heroes Town”, “Kota Besar Surabaya”, “Kota Pahlawan”, “Kotapraja Surabaya”, “Kutha Pahlawan”, “Kutha Wira”, “Soerabaia”, “Soerabaija”, “Soerabaya”, “Sourabaya”, “Surabaya City”, “Surabaya Kota”, “Surabaya Town”, “Surabaya, Jawa Timur”, and “苏腊巴亚”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Surabaya Pasarturi railway station and Surabaya Kota railway station.
Surabaya Pasarturi railway station
Railway station
Surabaya Pasar Turi Station or Surabaya Pasarturi…
Cheng Ho Mosque
Mosque
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ketabang and Embong Kaliasin.
Surabaya
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kota Besar, Kotapraja, and locality
- Location: Surabaya Metropolitan Area, East Java, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-7.2463° or 7° 14′ 47″ south
Longitude
112.7378° or 112° 44′ 16″ east
Population
2,770,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
SUB
UN/LOCODE
ID SUB
Open location code
6P4JQP3Q+F4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Surabaya” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Surabaya”
- Afrikaans: “Surabaya”
- Albanian: “Surabaya”
- Arabic: “سورابايا”
- Armenian: “Սուրաբայա”
- Asturian: “Surabaya”
- Azerbaijani: “Surabaya”
- Balinese: “Kota Surabaya”
- Balinese: “ᬲᬸᬭᬩᬬ”
- Bashkir: “Сурабая”
- Basque: “Surabaya”
- Batak Mandailing: “Surabaya”
- Bavarian: “Surabaya”
- Belarusian: “Сурабая”
- Bengali: “সুরাবায়া”
- Betawi: “Kota Surabaya”
- Breton: “Surabaya”
- Bulgarian: “Сурабая”
- Burmese: “ဆူရာဘာယားမြို့”
- Catalan: “Surabaya”
- Cebuano: “Surabaya”
- Chechen: “Сурабая”
- Chinese: “泗水”
- Croatian: “Surabaya”
- Czech: “Surabaja”
- Czech: “Surabája”
- Danish: “Surabaya”
- Dutch: “Soerabaja”
- Dutch: “Surabaya”
- Dzongkha: “སུ་ར་བ་ཡ་ གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سورابايا”
- Esperanto: “Surabajo”
- Estonian: “Surabaya”
- Fijian: “Surabaya”
- Finnish: “Surabaya”
- French: “Surabaya”
- Galician: “Surabaia”
- Georgian: “სურაბაია”
- German: “Surabaya”
- Gorontalo: “Kota Surabaya”
- Greek: “Σουραμπάγια”
- Gujarati: “સુરબયા”
- Hausa: “Surabaya”
- Hebrew: “סורבאיה”
- Hebrew: “סורביה”
- Hindi: “सुराबया”
- Hungarian: “Surabaya”
- Iban: “Surabaya”
- Ido: “Surabaya”
- Indonesian: “Kota Surabaya”
- Indonesian: “Surabaya”
- Interlingue: “Surabaya”
- Irish: “Surabaya”
- Italian: “Surabaya”
- Japanese: “スラバヤ”
- Javanese: “Kota Surabaya”
- Javanese: “Kutha Surabaya”
- Kalaallisut: “Surabaya”
- Kannada: “ಸುರಬಯ”
- Kannada: “ಸುರಬಾಯ”
- Khmer: “ស៊ូរ៉ាបាយ៉ា”
- Komering: “Surabaya”
- Korean: “수라바야”
- Lao: “ສຸຣາບາຢາ”
- Latin: “Surabaya”
- Latvian: “Surabaja”
- Lithuanian: “Surabaja”
- Madurese: “Koṭṭa Sorbhâjâ”
- Madurese: “Kottha Sorbhâjâ”
- Malagasy: “Kota Surabaya”
- Malay: “Kota Surabaya”
- Malay: “Surabaya”
- Malayalam: “സുരബായ”
- Maltese: “Surabaya”
- Maori: “Hurapaia”
- Maori: “Surabaya”
- Marathi: “सुरबया”
- Mazanderani: “سورابايا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Surabaya Chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Surabaya”
- Minangkabau: “Kota Surabaya”
- Moksha: “Сурабая”
- Northern Frisian: “Surabaya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Surabaya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Surabaja”
- Norwegian: “Surabaya”
- Nyanja: “Surabaya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Surabaya”
- Ossetian: “Сурабая”
- Persian: “سورابایا”
- Polish: “Surabaja”
- Portuguese: “Surabaia”
- Romanian: “Surabaya”
- Russia Buriat: “Сурабая”
- Russian: “Сурабая”
- Scots: “Surabaya”
- Serbian: “Сурабаја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Surabaja”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းသူရပၢႆႇယႃႇ”
- Silesian: “Surabaja”
- Sinhala: “සුරබයා”
- Slovak: “Surabaja”
- Slovenian: “Surabaja”
- South Azerbaijani: “سورابایا”
- Spanish: “Surabaya”
- Sundanese: “Kota Surabaya”
- Swahili: “Surabaya”
- Swedish: “Surabaja”
- Swedish: “Surabaya”
- Tagalog: “Surabaya”
- Tajik: “Сурабая”
- Tamil: “சுராபாயா”
- Tatar: “Сурабая”
- Telugu: “సురబాయ”
- Thai: “ซูราบายา”
- Thai: “สุราบายา”
- Turkish: “Surabaya”
- Ukrainian: “Сурабая”
- Urdu: “سورابایا”
- Uzbek: “Surabaya”
- Venetian: “Surabaya”
- Veps: “Surabai”
- Vietnamese: “Surabaya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Surabaya”
- Welsh: “Surabaya”
- Western Armenian: “Սուրապայա”
- Western Panjabi: “سورابایا”
- Wu Chinese: “泗水（印度尼西亚）”
- Wu Chinese: “泗水”
- Yakut: “Сурабайа”
- Yue Chinese: “泗水”
- Yue Chinese: “泗水市”
- “ma Sulopojo”
- “Surabaya”
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