Madura Island

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Madura is one of the Indonesian islands. The elongated island runs north along the eastern part of Indonesia's main island of Java, at the height of the port city of Surabaya.

Since June 2009 Madura is connected via the Suramadu Bridge ( indon. Jembatan Suramadu ) with the island of Java.

The area of ​​the island is 5168 km ², living on her approximately 3.63 million inhabitants. Since the 16th century, Muslims make up the majority of the population.

The island is part of the Indonesian province of Jawa Timur ( East Java ). The most spoken language is Madurese, which is also used on many of the surrounding 126 islands. The two traditional economic sectors are agriculture and fisheries, it is technologically less developed than their larger neighboring island of Java. In addition, be prepared to Madura kretek cigarettes and won three salt in large saline.

From this island a culinary specialty that Soto Madura, comes a thick hearty soup.