Sukabumi

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Sukabumi
City
Ahmad Yani road in Sukabumi
Seal
Sukabumi Location of Sukabumi in Indonesia
Coordinates: 6°55′10.56″S 106°55′37.92″ECoordinates: 6°55′10.56″S 106°55′37.92″E
Country	Indonesia
Province	West Java
Area
• Water	48.15 km2 (18.59 sq mi)
Elevation	584 m (1,916 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	298,681
Time zone	WIB (UTC+7)
Website	http://www.sukabumikota.go.id

Sukabumi city surrounded by Sukabumi Regency in West Java province.

Sukabumi is a city surrounded by the regency of the same name in the southern foothills of Mount Gede, in West Java, Indonesia, about 80 km (50 mi) south of the national capital, Jakarta.
At an altitude of approximately 600 meters (2000 feet), the city is a minor hill station resort, with a cooler climate than the surrounding lowlands. Sukabumi is also a destination for whitewater rafting. Rubber production is a major industry in the area. The area surrounding Sukabumi circling the mountain has grown tremendously in population, such that northern Sukabumi Regency, hugging the volcano, and bordering Greater Jakarta, is home to the bulk of the regency's population. Some 1.8 million people, as of the 2010 census figures, live in the northern third of Sukabumi Regency, effectively are suburbs of Sukabumi city.
In Dutch colonial times, Sukabumi was the site of the colonial police academy. In early 2005, Sukabumi Regency became the first place in Indonesia that polio was reported in ten years, the beginning of a nationwide outbreak of the disease which had been believed to be eradicated in the country.^[1]
Made in 804 the Sukabumi inscription' is the earliest evidence of Old Javanese script and language.

Transportation

After almost one year of hiatus, the railway transport between Sukabumi and Bogor of 57 kilometres was reactivated, with the new train called 'Pangrango' on November 9, 2013. The train caries one executive-class car and three economy-class cars.^[2]

References

1. Indonesia confirms second case of polio, ABC Radio Australia 5 April 2005.
2. "PT KAI revives Bogor-Sukabumi route". November 10, 2013.

External links

• (Indonesian) Official site

[hide] v t e Regencies and cities of West Java
Capital: Bandung
Regencies	Bogor Sukabumi Cianjur Bandung West Bandung Garut Tasikmalaya Ciamis Pangandaran Kuningan Cirebon Majalengka Sumedang Indramayu Subang Purwakarta Karawang Bekasi
Cities (Kota)	Bogor Sukabumi Bandung Cirebon Bekasi Depok Tasikmalaya Banjar Cimahi