Purwodadi is a town and a district in

Grobogan Regency Grobogan Regency ( jv, ꦒꦿꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦒꦤ꧀) is a regency ( id, kabupaten) located in northeastern part of the Central Java province in Indonesia. Created on 4 March 1726, the Grobogan Regency has an area of 2,022.25 km2, and is t ...

, of which it is the administrative capital. It is located to the south east of

Semarang Semarang ( jv, ꦏꦸꦛꦯꦼꦩꦫꦁ , Pegon: سماراڠ) is the capital and largest city of Central Java province in Indonesia. It was a major port during the Dutch colonial era, and is still an important regional center and port today ...

, the capital of

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 Yogyakart ...

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 Gui ...

. It covers an area of 78.12 km², and had a population of 139,387 at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. It is also well known for

tauco Tauco, Taucu, Taotjo or Tauchu () is a paste made from preserved fermented yellow soybeans in Chinese Indonesian and Malaysian cuisines. Tauco is made by boiling yellow soybeans, grinding them, mixing them with flour and fermenting them in orde ...

, a soya bean sauce, and swieke, a frog legs dish. The east side of the district is geographically a valley area between two rocky mountains, Kendeng to the south and Pegunungan Kapur Utara to the north. The mountains have

teak Teak (''Tectona grandis'') is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae. It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. ''Tectona grandis'' has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters ( pan ...

and

mahogany Mahogany is a straight- grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus '' Swietenia'', indigenous to the AmericasBridgewater, Samuel (2012). ''A Natural History of Belize: Inside the Maya Forest''. Austin: U ...

forests. The valley is used for agriculture and spreads from the west to the east. The area has many rivers, highways and railways. Villages in the district include: * Candisari * Cingkrong * Danyang * Genuksuran * Kalongan * Kandangan * Karanganyar * Kedungrejo * Kuripan * Nambuhan * Ngembak * Nglobar * Ngraji * Pulorejo * Purwodadi * Putat * Warukaranganyar

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