West Sumatra
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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Padang and Bukittinggi.
Padang
Padang is the capital city of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is mostly used by tourists as an access point to Bungus Bay, the surfing sites and indigenous tribal culture of the Mentawai Islands, the inland hills of Bukittinggi, and the Kerinci Seblat National Park.
Bukittinggi
Mentawai Islands
The Mentawai Islands are a chain of islands in Indonesia off the western coast of Sumatra, recognized as having some of the most perfect surfing breaks in the world.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Payakumbuh and Padang Panjang.
Payakumbuh
Padang Panjang
Solok
Solok is a city in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The motto of this city is Kota Beras which is an abbreviation of "Bersih, Elok, Rapi, Aman dan Sejahtera". It has an area of 58.72 km2, a population of 59,396 at the 2010 Census, and 73,438 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid 2025 was 81,059.
Pariaman
Pariaman is a city in West Sumatra province, Indonesia. This city is located about 56 km from Padang city.
Lake Maninjau
Batusangkar
Harau Valley
The Harau Valley is in West Sumatra in Indonesia. It is an area of natural beauty located halfway between Pekanbaru and Bukittinggi. Rice fields are dwarfed by cliffs.
Bungus Bay
Bungus Bay is a beach some 20 km south of Padang, West Sumatra.West Sumatra
- Type: State with 5,580,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra
- Also known as: “Daerah Swatantra Tingkat I Sumatera Barat”, “Daerah Tingkat I Sumatera Barat”, “Okcident-Sumatro”, “Propinsi Daerah Tingkat I Sumatera Barat”, “Propinsi Sumatera Barat”, “Prov. Sumatera Barat”, “Provinz Westsumatra”, “Sumbar”, “Tây Sumatra”, “Västra Sumatra”, “West Sumatra Province”, “מערב סומטרה”, “شرم الشيخ”, “மேலைச் சுமாத்திரா”, and “மேற்கு சுமத்ரா”
- Neighbors: Bengkulu, Jambi, North Sumatra, and Riau
- Categories: province of Indonesia, first-level administrative country subdivision in Indonesia, and locality
- Location: Sumatra, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-0.5828° or 0° 34′ 58″ south
Longitude of center
100.6133° or 100° 36′ 48″ east
Population
5,580,000
Elevation
1,250 metres (4,101 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“West Sumatra” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Ruja Bahrat”
- Achinese: “Sumatra Barat”
- Amharic: “ምዕራብ ሱማትራ”
- Arabic: “سومطرة الغربية”
- Arabic: “سومطرة غرب”
- Asturian: “Sumatra Occidental”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərb Sumatra”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Sumatra”
- Balinese: “Sumatra Barat”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Sumatra”
- Batak Mandailing: “Sumatera Barat”
- Batak Toba: “Sumatera Pastima”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя Суматра”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Заходняя Суматра”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম সুমাত্রা”
- Betawi: “Sumatra Kulon”
- Breton: “Kornôg Sumatra”
- Bulgarian: “Западна Суматра”
- Catalan: “Sumatra Occidental”
- Cebuano: “Provinsi Sumatera Barat”
- Chamorro: “Luchan Sumatra”
- Chinese: “西苏门答腊省 / 西蘇門答臘省”
- Chinese: “西苏门答腊省”
- Chinese: “西蘇門答臘省”
- Czech: “Západní Sumatra”
- Danish: “Vestsumatra”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sumatra Rocawani”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sumatraya Rocawani”
- Dutch: “West-Sumatra”
- Dzongkha: “སུ་མ་ཊེ་ར་བ་རཏ་ ས་གནས།”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Sumatro”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Sumatra”
- French: “Sumatra occidental”
- Galician: “Sumatra Occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი სუმატრა”
- German: “Sumatera Barat”
- German: “Sumatra Barat”
- Gorontalo: “Sumatra Barat”
- Greek: “Δυτική Σουμάτρα”
- Gujarati: “વેસ્ટ સુમાત્રા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî Sumatera”
- Hausa: “Yamma Sumatra”
- Hebrew: “סומטרה המערבית”
- Hindi: “पश्चिम सुमात्रा”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Szumátra”
- Iban: “Sumatera Barat”
- Iloko: “Laud a Sumatra”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Sumatera Barat”
- Indonesian: “Sumatera Barat”
- Indonesian: “Sumatra Barat”
- Irish: “Sumatra Thiar”
- Italian: “Sumatra Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西スマトラ州”
- Javanese: “Sumatera Barat”
- Javanese: “Sumatera Kulon”
- Javanese: “Sumatra Kulon”
- Kannada: “ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಸುಮಾತ್ರ”
- Kazakh: “Батыс Сумматра”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តស៊ូម៉ាត្រាខាងលិច”
- Kirghiz: “Батыш Суматра”
- Komering: “Sumatera Barat”
- Komering: “Sumatera Lawok”
- Korean: “서수마트라주”
- Latvian: “Rietumsumatra”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Sumatra”
- Madurese: “Sumatra Bârâ‘”
- Madurese: “Sumatra Bârâ’”
- Malay: “Sumatera Barat”
- Malay: “Sumatra Barat”
- Malay: “سوماترا بارت”
- Malayalam: “പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ സുമാത്ര”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम सुमात्रा”
- Mazanderani: “غربی سوماترا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤ Sumatra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai Sumatera Séng”
- Minangkabau: “Sumatera Barat”
- Mongolian: “Баруун Суматра”
- Mongolian: “Өрнө Суматра”
- Northern Frisian: “Sumatra Barat”
- Northern Luri: “سوماترا افتونشین”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumatera Barat”
- Norwegian: “Sumatera Barat”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sumatra Occidental”
- Oromo: “Giddu Sumaatra”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Суматрæ”
- Pampanga: “Albugang Sumatra”
- Pampanga: “West Sumatra”
- Panjabi: “ਪੱਛਮ ਸੁਮਾਤਰਾ”
- Persian: “سوماترای غربی”
- Persian: “سومطره غربی”
- Polish: “Sumatra Zachodnia”
- Portuguese: “Sumatra Ocidental”
- Pushto: “لویدیز سومطره”
- Russian: “Западная Суматра”
- Scots: “Wast Sumatra”
- Serbian: “Западна Суматра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadna Sumatra”
- Shona: “Sumatara Madokero”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර සුමාත්රා පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Sinhala: “බස්නාහිර සුමාත්රා”
- Slovak: “Západná Sumatra”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Sumatra”
- Somali: “Galbeed Sumaatra”
- South Azerbaijani: “باتی سوماترای”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Sumatra Occidental”
- Spanish: “Sumatra Occidental”
- Sundanese: “Sumatra Kulon”
- Swahili: “Sumatra Magharibi”
- Swedish: “Sumatera Barat”
- Swedish: “Sumatra Barat”
- Tajik: “Сумматраи Ғарб”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு சுமாத்திரா”
- Tamil: “மேற்குச் சுமாத்திரா”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Суматра”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Сумматра”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ సుమత్ర”
- Thai: “จังหวัดสุมาตราตะวันตก”
- Turkish: “Batı Sumatra”
- Ukrainian: “Західна Суматра”
- Urdu: “مغربی سماٹرا”
- Uzbek: “G’arbiy Sumatera”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Sumatera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katundan nga Sumatra”
- Welsh: “Gorllewin Sumatra”
- Western Armenian: “Արեւմտեան Սումաթրա”
- Western Panjabi: “لہندا سماٹرا”
- Wu Chinese: “西蘇門答臘省”
- Yue Chinese: “西蘇門答臘”
- “Sumatera Barat”
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