Sister cities of Pekanbaru

Atlanta →
Bandar Lampung ⇄
Bandung ⇄
Batam ⇄
Chongqing →
Daegu →
Da Nang →
Davao City →
Fukushima, Fukushima →
Kota Bharu →
Kota Kinabalu →
Liuzhou →
Malacca City →
Palembang ⇄
Phuket →
Quebec City →
San Jose, California →
Suwon →
Utrecht →
Zamboanga City ⇄

Pekanbaru (Jawi: ڤكنبارو) is the capital of Riau, a province in Indonesia on the island of Sumatra. It has an area of 632.26 km² and a population of 1.1 million, making it Sumatra's fourth largest municipality, after Medan, Palembang, and Batam.

It is on the Siak River, which drains to the Strait of Malacca. Pekanbaru has direct access to the busy strait and was long known as a trading port (the city name is derived from the Indonesian words of 'new market' or 'new town', "pekan" meaning 'market' or 'town', and "baru" meaning 'new'). The city is divided into 12 subdistricts (kecamatan). The Sultan Syarif Kasim II International Airport serves Pekanbaru. A settlement has existed on the ite since the 17th century. In the late 19th century, the city developed to serve the coffee and coal industries, and the Dutch built roads to help ship goods to Singapore and Malacca.

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