| Official Name: | Meulaboh |
| Translit Lang1: | Other |
| Translit Lang1 Type1: | Jawoë |
| Translit Lang1 Info1: | ملابوه |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Indonesia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Indonesia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Aceh |
| Subdivision Type2: | Regency |
| Subdivision Name2: | West Aceh Regency |
| Area Total Km2: | 44.91 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 Census |
| Population Note: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 64646 |
| Timezone: | WIB |
| Utc Offset: | +7 |
| Coordinates: | 4.1333°N 103°W |
Meulaboh (Jawoë: ملابوه; or Moulabouh) is the capital of West Aceh Regency, Indonesia.
Meulaboh is about 245 km southeast of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province. Meulaboh is located in the western part of Sumatra island.
"The casualty rates in Meulaboh defy imagination,"October 2018. said Aitor Lacomba, Indonesian director of aid group International Rescue Committee. "Tens of thousands need immediate assistance there."October 2018.
A damaged airstrip was cleared, enabling International Red Cross medical teams from Japan, Spain and Singapore to begin treating survivors. Red Cross engineer Sara Escudero said "There is a strong smell of putrefaction and, whilst body retrieval has commenced, it can be assumed that there are still hundreds, possibly thousands of bodies remaining underneath the debris".October 2018.
The Red Cross said it would use Meulaboh as an aid staging post for the Sumatran west coast. The government of Singapore deployed two helicopter landing ships there.
The town was largely devastated, with around 80 percent of buildings destroyed and at least 10,000 dead out of the town's population of 50-60 thousand.[2] [3] Only 23,000 people could be accounted for a week after the tsunami, although many were not accounted for as they were not in refugee camps, but resided in deserted houses.[4]
Meulaboh has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.