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Bogor
West Java, Indonesia · Asia
About Bogor
Bogor sits on the route: 20 minutes from Ciampea.
Bogor is in West Java, Indonesia, with about 1.1 million people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Ciampea, about 11 km away.
Bogor (Sundanese: ᮘᮧᮌᮧᮁ; Dutch: Buitenzorg) is a landlocked city in West Java, Indonesia. Located around 53 kilometers (33 mi) south of the national capital of Jakarta, it is the 6th largest city in the Jakarta metropolitan area and the 14th overall nationwide.
The city covers an area of 111.39 km2, and it had aRead more
population of 950,334 at the 2010 Census and 1,043,070 at the 2020 Census. The official population estimate as at 2025 was 1,281,010.
Bogor is an important center of economy, science, cultural heritage and tourism in Indonesia because this city is a mountainous area that used to be a resting place for Dutch nobles during the Dutch colonial period because of its cool climate and the many classical European-style buildings in the city. During the Middle Ages, the city served as the capital of the Sunda Kingdom (Sundanese: Karajaan Sunda) and was called Pakuan Pajajaran or Dayeuh Pakuan. During the Dutch colonial era, it was named Buitenzorg ("without worries" in Dutch) and served as the summer residence of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.
With several hundred thousand people living in an area of about 20 km2 (7.7 sq mi), the central part of Bogor is one of the world's most densely populated areas. The city has a presidential palace and a botanical garden (Indonesian: Kebun Raya Bogor) – one of the oldest and largest in the world. It bears the nickname "Rainy City" (Kota Hujan), because of frequent rain showers, even during the dry season.
In the 1990s–2000s, the city regularly hosted various international events, such as ministry-level meetings of the Asia-Pacific institutions and the APEC summit of 15 November 1994.
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Bogor is in West Java, Indonesia, about 11 km from Ciampea.
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- Population
- 1,127,408
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Indonesia
- Region
- West Java
- Timezone
- Asia/Jakarta
- Coordinates
- -6.5944, 106.7892
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