Bandung - Capital of West Java

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Bandung City is the largest metropolitan city in West Java at once became the capital of the province. The city is located 140 km southeast of Jakarta, and is the third largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya, according to the population. While the area of ​​Bandung Raya (Bandung Metropolitan Area) is the third largest metropolitan area in Greater Jakarta and Indonesia after Gerbangkertosusila (Grebangkertosusilo). In this historic city, stands a first engineering colleges in Indonesia (Technische Hoogeschool, now ITB), the scene of battle in time of independence, and had been a meeting place of Asian-African Conference of 1955, a meeting that voiced the spirit of anti-colonialism, and even the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech said that Bandung is the capital of Asia and Africa.



In 1990 the city of Bandung was one of the safest cities in the world by Time magazine survey.
The city flower is another name for this city, because in earlier times was considered very beautiful city with many trees and flowers that grew there. Additionally Bandung formerly also called Parijs van Java because of its beauty. Besides the city of Bandung also known as a shopping city, with malls and factory outlets are widely spread in this city, and now gradually also became a city of Bandung city culinary tour. And in 2007, the British Council made the city of Bandung as a pilot project city terkreatif as East Asia. Currently the city of Bandung is one of the main objectives of tourism and education.

Geographically, the city of Bandung is surrounded by mountains, so the morphology of its territory as a form of a giant bowl. Geographically the city is situated in the middle of West Java province, and at an altitude of ± 768 m above sea level, with the highest point in being in the north with an altitude of 1050 meters above sea level and south is a low area with a height of 675 meters above sea level.
Bandung city flowed the two main rivers, namely Citarum Cikapundung River and its tributaries, which generally flows to the south and meet at the River Citarum. With such conditions, southern Bandung highly susceptible to flooding problems, especially during the rainy season.
Geologic and soil circumstances that exist in the city of Bandung and its surroundings formed at the time of kwartier and has a layer of alluvial soil eruption of Mount Tangkuban Parahu. Type of material in the northern part is generally a type of andosol so well in the middle and western regions, while the southern and eastern regions consist of the distribution of species with gray alluvial deposits of clay materials.
Semetara Bandung climate influenced by the humid climate of the mountains and cool, with an average temperature of 23.5 ° C, average rainfall is 200.4 mm and the number of rainy days on average 21.3 days per month

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