Double-page from the Qur'an manuscript from East Java

Bangkalan is a town on the western coast of Madura Island in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

, the government seat of the

Bangkalan Regency Bangkalan Regency is a regency ( id, kabupaten) of East Java province in Indonesia. The seat of its government is Bangkalan. The regency is located on the west side of Madura Island, bordering with Sampang Regency to the east, Java Sea to the nort ...

Tourism

Mount Jaddih is 10 kilometres from Bangkalan and can be accessed by a motorcycle to the mountain top to see Bangkalan town and

Suramadu Bridge The Suramadu Bridge ( id, Jembatan Suramadu), also known as the ''Surabaya–Madura Bridge'', is a cable-stayed bridge between Surabaya on the island of Java and the town of Bangkalan on the island of Madura in Indonesia. Opened in June 2009, t ...

. The 500-hectare limestone hill of Mount Jaddih also offers a spring-water swimming pool for free. Other objects of interest to tourists near Bangkalan are a lighthouse from the Dutch colonial era (15 kilometers), Rongkang Beach (20 kilometers), and the religious site of Mount Geger (60 kilometers).

Suramadu Bridge to Java

The

(Indonesian: ''Jembatan Suramadu''), also known as the Surabaya–Madura Bridge, connects Bangkalan town on Madura to the mainland of Java.

Climate

Bangkalan has a

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) with moderate to little rainfall from June to October and heavy rainfall from November to May.

References

* Districts of East Java Madura Island Regency seats of East Java {{EJava-geo-stub