Sumenep Town (
Indonesian
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* Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia
** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago
** Indonesian ...
: ''Kota Sumenep'',
Madurese: ''Koṭṭa Songennep''; Pronunciation
ɔʈʈah ’sɔŋǝnnǝp/nowiki>,
Pèghu: ''كوتا سَوڠٓنّٓڤ,''
Carakan: ''ꦏꦺꦴꦠ꧀ꦠꦯꦺꦴꦔꦼꦤ꧀ꦤꦼꦥ꧀'',
Lontara': ᨀᨚᨈ ᨔᨚᨂᨛᨊᨛ) is a town on
Madura
Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java. The island comprises an area of approximately (administratively 5,379.33 km2 including various smaller islands to the east, southeast and north that are administrati ...
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 ...
; it is the administrative capital of
Sumenep Regency, in
East Java
East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean bord ...
Province. Hugely prosperous in the eighteenth century, it is now a quiet, peaceful backwater, with its past glory still in evidence.
Climate
Sumenep has a
tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of p ...
(Aw) with May to November and heavy rainfall from December to April.
References
Populated places in East Java
Madura Island
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