Where is Pekanbaru Located? What Country is Pekanbaru in? Pekanbaru Map

Where is Pekanbaru Located?

Pekanbaru in East Sumatra, the administrative seat of the province of Riau, and has about 670,000 inhabitants. From the port on the Siak River, the NNH ferry service connects Pekanbaru with Malacca in Malaysia three times a week.

Through Sultan Syarif Qasim II International Airport, Pekanbaru can be reached by direct flight from Kuala Lumpur and Malcca in Malaysia and from Singapore.

What Country is Pekanbaru in?

Pekanbaru is usually first stop on Sumatra for all tourists who come from Singapore. Pekanbaru is considered the cleanest city in Indonesia and was therefore awarded the Adupuru Prize in 2006 and 2007.

Also, the main roads of Pekanbaru are strikingly wide, so that the usual traffic noise in Indonesia’s cities is kept within limits. Pekanbaru has long been the center of the coffee trade and coal production on the east coast of Sumatra. Oil has also been extracted here since 1939.

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