Bandung (idn)

Bandung

Bandung ranks 1,884th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Liptovský Mikuláš, Greenock, and Kandahar. Memorable people born in Bandung include Henk Badings, Sandra Reemer, and Taufik Hidayat. Memorable people who died in Bandung include Adam Malik, and Abdul Muis. Bandung has been the birth place of many athletes, and composers and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Bandung is located in Indonesia.

Bandung is the capital city of the West Java province of Indonesia. Located on the island of Java, the city is the third largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya. Greater Bandung is the country's second-largest and second most populous metropolitan area, with over 11 million inhabitants. Situated 768 meters above sea level, approximately 135 kilometres southeast of Jakarta, Bandung has cooler year-round temperatures than most other Indonesian cities. The city lies in a river basin surrounded by volcanic mountains that provide a natural defense system, which was the primary reason for the Dutch East Indies government's plan to move the capital from Batavia to Bandung. Read more on Wikipedia