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Mungkid
Mungkid is the capital of Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The town center is located in the village of Sawitan. All government offices or agencies of Magelang regency are located here, including the offices owned by private parties. Mungkid town was founded on March 22, 1984 to replace the city of Magelang as the capital town of Magelang regency. Each March 22 is celebrated by the citizens of Magelang regency as Mungkid's anniversary. Many people consider this town as an administrative town and alternative city. The major Buddhist temple of Borobudur is about 4 km from the center of Mungkid. History After Independence in Indonesia in 1945, the city of Magelang was declared as the capital of the Magelang regency. However in 1950, Magelang city was declared a separate municipality and was given the right to manage its own affairs. It was therefore decided to relocate the capital of Magelang regency. Besides providing independence to Magelang city to manage its own ...
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Magelang Regency
Magelang ( jv, ꦩꦒꦼꦭꦁ) is a regency in Central Java, Indonesia, famous for its 9th century Buddhist temple of Borobudur. Its capital is Mungkid. It covers an area of 1,085.73 km2 and had a population of 1,181,723 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 1,299,859 at the 2020 Census. These figures exclude the autonomous city of Magelang, which is separately administered but is geographically enclaved within the regency, which borders Temanggung Regency to the north, Semarang Regency to the northeast, Boyolali Regency to the east, the Special Region of Yogyakarta to the south and southeast, Purworejo Regency to the southwest, and Wonosobo Regency to the west. Its motto is Magelang Gemilang (Shining Magelang). History The history of this regency is tied with the history of the city of Magelang. In 1812, Lieutenant-Governor Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles appointed Ngabel Danuningrat as the first regent of Magelang. This was a consequence of a tre ...
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Districts Of Central Java
The province of Central Java in Indonesia is divided into ''kabupaten'' or regencies which in turn are divided administratively into districts, known as ''kecamatan''. The districts of Central Java with the regency it falls into are as follows: *Adimulyo, Kebumen *Adipala, Cilacap *Adiwerna, Tegal *Ajibarang, Banyumas *Alian, Kebumen *Ambal, Kebumen * Ambarawa, Semarang *Ampel, Boyolali *Ampelgading, Pemalang *Andong, Boyolali *Argomulyo, Salatiga *Ayah, Kebumen *Bae, Kudus *Bagelen, Purworejo *Baki, Sukoharjo *Balapulang, Tegal *Bancak, Semarang *Bandar, Batang *Bandongan, Magelang *Bandungan, Semarang *Bangsri, Jepara *Banjarejo, Blora *Banjarharjo, Brebes *Banjarmangu, Banjarnegara *Banjarnegara, Banjarnegara *Banjarsari, Surakarta *Bansari, Temanggung *Bantarbolang, Pemalang *Bantarkawung, Brebes *Bantarsari, Cilacap *Banyubiru, Semarang *Banyudono, Boyolali *Banyumanik, Semarang *Banyumas, Banyumas *Banyuputih, Batang *Banyuurip, Purworejo *Batang, Batang *Batangan, Pati *B ...
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Muntilan
The Muntilan area is a district ( ''kecamatan'') in the Magelang Regency, Central Java. Muntilan is about 15 km south of Magelang, 10 km from Mungkid, 25 km north of Yogyakarta, and 90 km from the main town of Semarang located on the northern coast of Java. The town of Muntilan is on the old railway route between Kebon Polo station in Magelang and the main Tugu station in Yogyakarta. Tourists on their way to the well-known Buddhist temple Borobudur usually pass through Muntilan. Muntilan township is one of the main market centers on the western slopes of Mount Merapi, a major volcano in central Java within the administrative ambit of the regional government in Magelang. The locality is densely populated: in 2020, there was a population of 79,944 people living in an area of 28.61 km2, indicating a population density of 2,794 per km2. History The adjacent countryside has many villages with pesantren and strong allegiances to more stricter forms of Islam. In contrast, villages ...
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Central Java
Central Java ( id, Jawa Tengah) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java. Its administrative capital is Semarang. It is bordered by West Java in the west, the Indian Ocean and the Special Region of Yogyakarta in the south, East Java in the east, and the Java Sea in the north. It has a total area of 32,800.69 km2, with a population of 36,516,035 at the 2020 Census making it the third-most populous province in both Java and Indonesia after West Java and East Java. The official estimate as at mid 2021 was 36,742,501.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. The province also includes the island of Nusakambangan in the south (close to the border of West Java), and the Karimun Jawa Islands in the Java Sea. Central Java is also a cultural concept that includes the Yogyakarta Special Region, in turn including the city of Yogyakarta; however, administratively that city and its surrounding regencies have formed a separate special region (equiv ...
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Tropical Monsoon Climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ''Am''. Tropical monsoon climates have monthly mean temperatures above in every month of the year and a dry season. The tropical monsoon climate is the intermediate climate between the wet Af (or tropical rainforest climate) and the drier Aw (or tropical savanna climate). A tropical monsoon climate's driest month has on average less than 60 mm, but more than 100-\left(\frac\right). This is in direct contrast to a tropical savanna climate, whose driest month has less than 60 mm of precipitation and also less than 100-\left(\frac\right) of average monthly precipitation. In essence, a tropical monsoon climate tends to either have more rainfall than a tropical savanna climate or have less pronounced dry seasons. A tropical monsoon ...
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