Padang

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Motto: "Padang Kota Tercinta" (Indonesian: "Beloved Padang City")
Area	694.96 km²
Population  - Total (2000):  - Density:	757,600 1,090/km²
Time zone	WIB (UTC+7)
Coordinates	0°57′S 100°21′E
Elevation  - Highest point  - Lowest point	1853 m 0 m
Web site	www.padang.go.id

Padang is the capital and largest city of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It has an area of 694.96 km² and a population of over 750,000 people, mostly speakers of the Minangkabau language. It is located at 0°57′S 100°21′E. Image File history File links Padang_City_Logo. ... A motto is a phrase or a short list of words meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... Motto: Tuah Sakato. ... Pagaruyung Palace The Minangkabau ethnic group is indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in Indonesia. ...

Padang's Teluk Bayur harbor is the largest and busiest harbor on the west coast of Sumatra. The city is served by the newly-opened Minangkabau International Airport (in Ketaping, Padang Pariaman), and is a common transit point for surfers travelling to the Mentawai Islands. Sumatra (also spelled Sumatara and Sumatera) is the sixth largest island of the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest part of Indonesia. ... Minangkabau International Airport (IATA: PDG, ICAO: WIPT) is the principal airport serving the province of West Sumatra on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. ... Surfing outside Kaneohe Bay, Hawai‘i. ... The Mentawai Islands are a chain of islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. ...

The city is famous throughout Indonesia for its spicy food. Padang-style restaurants are common throughout the country. Padang food is served in small portions of various dishes, in a way similar to tapas or mezedes, but constituting, with rice, a complete meal. In a Padang-style restaurant, your table will quickly be set with dozens of small dishes filled with highly-flavored foods such as curried fish, fried tempe, stewed greens, chili eggplant, curried beef liver, fried chicken, and of course, sambals, the spicy sauces ubiquitous at Indonesian tables. You take -- and pay for -- only what you want from this array of dishes. The best known Padang dish is rendang, a spicy meat stew. Soto Padang (crispy beef in spicy soup) is local residents' breakfast favorite, meanwhile Sate (beef satay in curry sauce served with ketupat) is a treat in the evening. Olives, an example of Tapas See Tapas (Sanskrit) for the spiritual concept. ... Goes well with ouzo A Mezze (Arabic: مزة; Greek Mezes, pl. ... This article is about the dish. ... Grilled beef satay Satay (also written saté) is a dish that may have originated in Sumatra or Java in Indonesia but is popular in many southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. ... It has been suggested that Japanese Curry be merged into this article or section. ... Ketupat is a type of dumpling from Malaysia and Indonesia made from rice that has been wrapped in a woven palm leaf pouch which is then boiled. ...

Padang beach (known as Taplau or Tapi Lauik) which located from Samudra Street until Puruih, is well-known for its beautiful sunset and hundreds of food stalls.

Andalas University is the oldest University in Sumatra, it is the first state university outside Java, and it is located in Karimuntiang Hill Limau Manih, about 15 Km from the center of Padang. Bung Hatta University is another University in Padang located in Ulak Karang.

External links

• Pemerintah Padang - official city website
• Satellite picture by Google Maps

Administrative areas in West Sumatra
Regencies: Agam | Dharmasraya | Limapuluh Koto | Kepulauan Mentawai | Padang Pariaman | Pasaman | Pasaman Barat | Pesisir Selatan | Sawahlunto Sijunjung | Tanah Datar | Solok | Solok Selatan Municipalities: Bukittinggi | Padang | Padang Panjang | Pariaman | Payakumbuh | Sawahlunto | Solok Motto: Tuah Sakato. ... Image File history File links West_Sumatra_Symbol. ... Agam is a municipality of Indonesia, in the West Sumatra province, located west in the island of Sumatra. ... The Mentawai Islands are a chain of islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. ... Sawah Lunto Sijunjung is one of regencies of West Sumatra, The capital of the regencies is Muaro, Most of people working as trader and goverment employee, and the rest are as farmers, I was born In Tanjung Gadang in 1971, one of the district of Sawahlunto Sijunjung, I spent my... City of Bukittinggi Bukittinggi (Indonesian for high hill) is one of the larger cities in West Sumatra, Indonesia, with a population of around 100,000 people. ... Padang Panjang - Koto Hujan (rainy town) is located in the cool highlands of West Sumatra, inland from the provincial capital Padang. ... Payakumbuh is a city of north Bukit Tinggi (West Sumatra), Indonesia. ...
See also: Provinces of Indonesia