Bandung

Bandung is located in a high basin in West Jawa Province, Jawa Island, Indonesia, near the polluted Tarum River. Its metropolitan population is between 6.725 and 7.889 million,¹ with 2.575 million in the city limits.² The tallest building as of late 2017 is the Newton The Hybrid Park Apartment A (32 stories, 397 feet, 2016).³ The city was a colonial refuge from the warmth of lower altitudes, only growing large after independence in the mid-20th century.

Bandung has one of the nation's busiest airports: Husein Sastranegara International.⁴

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External references

Bandung skyline, West Jawa Province, Jawa island, Indonesia

Footnotes

1. The lower figure is the 2012 figure from world-gazetteer.com, accessed February 6, 2013. The higher figure is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Indonesia, citing the 2010 census and accessed February 14, 2017. The difference can reasonably be assumed to be caused by what settled areas are included.
2. City populations are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Indonesia, accessed February 14, 2017.
3. Emporis.com, accessed November 13, 2017.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Indonesia, accessed February 15, 2017; my criterion for inclusion was 1M passengers in 2015.