47 Facts About Medan

Medan is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra.

Medan is a multicultural metropolis and a busy trading city bordered by the Strait of Malacca, making it one of the major economic cities in Indonesia.

Rapid development of Medan came with the Deli Railway, which was established for shipping tobacco, rubber, tea, timber, palm oil, and sugar from Medan to the Port of Belawan, and then exported around the world.

Medan was the capital of the State of East Sumatra before it became the provincial capital of North Sumatra.

Medan was dubbed Parijs van Sumatra due to the city's resemblance to Paris.

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Medan is a financial, trading, and economic center not only for North Sumatra province, but for the whole Sumatra Island.

For many foreign investors, Medan is not only rich in culture and history, but presents itself as a dynamic economic hub of the world.

Several archaeological sites around Medan are connected to the Kingdom of Aru, including Kota Rentang in Hamparan Perak area, Deli Serdang Regency, the Kota Cina archaeological site in Medan Marelan, and Benteng Putri Hijau, a fort ruin in Deli Tua, Namorambe, Deli Serdang Regency.

Kampung Medan was founded by Guru Patimpus Sembiring Pelawi, a Karonese man who came from the Karo Land.

Statement confirming that the Kampung Medan is a description H Muhammad Said quoting through the book Deli: In Woord en Beeld written by N ten Cate.

The statement said that early Kampung Medan was a fortress which was composed of two layers of roundabout-shaped walls at a confluence between two rivers namely Deli and Babura rivers.

The location of Kampung Medan is in the modern-day location of the Wisma Benteng building now and the Administrateur house is in present-day PTP IX Deli Tobacco building.

Medan founded the villages of Gunung Barus, Sampali, Kota Bangun, Pulo Brayan, Kota Jawa, Kota Rengas and Sigara-gara.

Medan moved the kingdom to Medan and finished the construction of the Maimun Palace in 1888.

Medan did not develop rapidly until the 1860s, when the Dutch authorities began to release new land for tobacco plantations.

In 1918 the city of Medan officially became Gemeente with Mayor Baron Daniel Mackay.

Medan is in the northeastern part of Sumatra island, in North Sumatra province.

Medan is close to the Barisan Mountains which is located in the southern part of the city and close to volcanoes such as Sibayak Mountain and Sinabung Mountain .

Medan does have noticeably wetter and drier months, with its driest month on average seeing about one third of the precipitation of its wettest month .

Medan is divided into 21 districts, tabulated below with their areas and populations at the 2010 Census, and the 2020 Census.

Medan Labuhan is one of the largest districts by area and lies on the northern part of the city.

Medan has foreign residents from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Middle East and other Asian countries.

The Malays are natives of Medan, already living in outskirt areas such as Belawan and Labuhan since the Aru era as fishermen.

Now, Medan is home of the largest Chinese community on Sumatra island; they are active in business and trading activities which contribute greatly to the city economy.

Unlike the Java-born Chinese, most Chinese people in Medan speak fluent Hokkien, a dialect originating from Fujian, a province in southern part of China.

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The majority of Medan's inhabitants are Muslim, comprising approximately 54 percent of the total population.

Medan is one of the largest metropolitan cities in Indonesia and became the center of growth in the province of North Sumatra.

Medan's economy was mainly based on tobacco, rubber, tea, palm and coffee culture and production, but growing manufacturing sector such as automotive, production of machinery, tiles, paper and pulp, etc.

Since then, Medan City has continued to support a large portion of regional trade and logistic flow across the municipalities within this particular KSN as well as across most of the western part of Indonesia .

Currently, Medan is the centre point for crop trading for different commodities produced in the region such as rubber, palm oil, cinnamon, tobacco, tea, and coffee, a great portion of which have been exported to Europe, North America, and Middle East.

Medan is one of the most industrialized city in Sumatra, consisting of many small, medium and large-scale enterprises.

Medan is one of Indonesia's most promising property markets outside Java, and several high-value developments have transformed its property market – and skyline.

Medan is known as the "City of Million Shophouses", as the majority of the population work in the trade sector, opening shops nearing their houses.

Medan has several well-known culinary spots such as Jalan Selat Panjang and Jalan Semarang for Chinese food, Jalan Pagaruyung for Indian and Malay food and Jalan Padang Bulan for Batak food.

Soto Medan is a savoury stew made with various meats that are fried beforehand, and coconut milk.

Bolu Meranti is the most famous homemade Swiss roll in Medan, which are frequently bought by local tourists as a souvenir.

Medan has a Buddhist temple named as Maha Vihara Maitreya, and there is a Buddhist centre nearby named as Maha Karuna Buddhist Centre this temple complex known as one of the biggest non-historical Buddhist temple in Indonesia, both situated around Cemara Asri housing complex.

Medan Cathedral is the oldest church in the city, was built by the Dutch and Indian community nearby, and the church was named as Indische Kerk back then, located on the old town along Jalan Pemuda.

Sri Mariamman Temple is the first Hindu temple in Medan built around 1881 by The Tamil peoples in the city, located on Jalan Zainul Arifin, The city's Little India or more known as Kampung Madras, the temple has unique south Indian architecture with hundred Hindu deity statues around the building.

Medan is one of the major shopping centres of Indonesia, along with Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya.

An elevated railway is already constructed and is on operations over several rail lines around Medan to avoid level crossings and reduce traffic congestion.

One of the endangered features of Medan are the motorized rickshaws known as a or, although bicycle rickshaws are available.

Medan serves several radio and TV channels, and is home to newspapers in local and foreign languages such as Indonesian, English, Chinese, Batak, Malay and others.

Medan has a bunch of television stations; there are public and private national networks as well as local channels.

Medan has several popular radio networks and stations like Prambors FM, MNC Trijaya FM, I-Radio, KISS FM, VISI FM, Delta FM and others.

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Medan has recently seen much success in Wushu nationally and internationally.

Medan has 72 registered universities, academies, polytechnics, and colleges such as:.