Bandar Lampung
Geographical unit
Bandar Lampung ( " port Lampung " ), formerly Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung, with the immediately associated port Panjang, is a city in the southernmost part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with 940 150 inhabitants ( survey in 2010) and an area of 169.21 km ². It lies at the northern end of the bay, which forms a part of the flow between Sumatra and Java Sunda Strait.
Bandar Lampung is the capital of the province of Lampung and one of the centers of emigration from the overcrowded islands of Java and Bali. With the resource-rich provinces in northern Sumatra it is linked by highways and railways. 50 km southeast lies the Ferry Bakauheni, immediately northeast of the regional airport Radin Inten II Airport. The Trans - Sumatra Highway connects the city across Sumatra Padang, Medan and Banda Aceh in the north.
The city is characterized mainly by the port, administration and agriculture. Tours to the volcanic island of Krakatau offered. 70 km northeast is the remarkable tourist Elephant Training Centre in Way Kambas National Park.
At the outbreak of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883 the southern part of Sumatra was washed over by a huge tidal wave and then coated with a thick layer of ash, thereby largely depopulated and repopulated again until the beginning of the 20th century.
Bandar Lampung emerged in the early 1980s from the merger of the towns Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung.