Purwodadi is a town and a district in

Grobogan Regency Grobogan Regency () is a regency () located in northeastern part of the Central Java province in Indonesia. Created on 4 March 1726, the Grobogan Regency has an area of 2,023.84 km2, and is the second largest regency in the Central Java Prov ...

, of which it is the administrative capital. It is located southeast of

Semarang Semarang (Javanese script, Javanese: , ''Kutha Semarang'') is the capital and largest city of Central Java province in Indonesia. It was a major port during the Netherlands, Dutch Dutch East Indies, colonial era, and is still an important regio ...

, the capital of

Central Java Central Java (, ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, 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 Yogya ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

. 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, a soya bean sauce, and swieke, a frog legs dish. The Eastern district is geographically a valley between two rocky mountains, Kendeng to the south and Pegunungan Kapur Utara to the north. The hills 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 (panic ...

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: Universit ...

forests. The valley is used for agriculture and spreads from the west to the east. The area has many rivers, highways, and railways.

Village

Villages in the district include: * Candisari * Cingkrong * Danyang * Genuksuran * Kalongan * Kandangan * Karanganyar * Kedungrejo * Kuripan * Nambuhan * Ngembak * Nglobar * Ngraji * Pulorejo * Purwodadi * Putat * Warukaranganyar

References

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