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Kudus
Central Java, Indonesia · Asia
About Kudus
Kudus sits on the route: 10 minutes from Baekrajan.
Kudus is in Central Java, Indonesia, with about 92,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Baekrajan, about 4 km away.
Kudus (Javanese: ꦏꦸꦢꦸꦱ꧀) is the capital and the namesake of the Kudus Regency in Central Java, Indonesia. Its name has an Arabic etymology (Arab: القدس al-Quds) connected to its foundation by the legendary figure Sunan Kudus. It also houses the mosque established by Sunan Kudus named Menara Kudus Mosque, one of theRead more
most important and influential mosques in Indonesia. According to the 2010 census, its population was 92,776, but by mid-2022 this had declined to 88,635.
During the Dutch East Indies era, Kudus was the seat of the Kudus Regency which was a part of Semarang Residency dating back to 1817. From 1928 to 1931, it was the seat of the short-lived Koedoes Residency, which incorporated the regency as well as the neighboring Demak and Jepara regencies.
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Kudus is in Central Java, Indonesia, about 4 km from Baekrajan.
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- Population
- 92,156
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Indonesia
- Region
- Central Java
- Timezone
- Asia/Jakarta
- Coordinates
- -6.8048, 110.8405
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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