Subang | |
Settlement Type: | District |
Translit Lang1: | Regional |
Translit Lang1 Type1: | Sundanese |
Pushpin Map: | Indonesia_Java#Indonesia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Java and Indonesia |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Coordinates: | -6.5714°N 107.7614°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Indonesia |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | West Java |
Subdivision Type2: | Regency |
Subdivision Name2: | Subang Regency |
Leader Title: | Camat |
Leader Name: | Deni Setiawan |
Leader Title1: | Secretary |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 60.22 |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 88 |
Population Total: | 141038 |
Population As Of: | mid 2022 estimate |
Population Footnotes: | [3] |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | IWT |
Utc Offset: | +7 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 4121x |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | (+62) 260 |
Blank Name: | Villages |
Blank Info: | 12 |
Subang is a town and the capital of the Subang Regency in West Java, Indonesia. It lies approximately southeast of Jakarta and northeast of Bandung by road. The district had a population of 120,346 in 2010 which grew to 137,284 at the 2020 Census;[4] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 141,038.[5]
In April 1952 the Harian Rakjat stated that the Communist Party of Indonesia had organized a course in Subang along with Karawang.[6]
The government office Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten Subang, the House of Representatives of Subang District, the park Alun Alun Kabupaten Subang, and Al-Musabaqoh Grand Mosque are in the town centre. The University of Subang is in the southeast and the football pitch Stadion Persikas lies in the south of the town. P. T. Taekwung Industrial Estate lies on the northeastern outskirts of the town as does a Class II prison in the north. The principal hospital is Rumah Sakit PTPN VIII Hospital.
Museum Wisma Karya is a colonial period building and museum in Subang. It contains a range of items from ancient fossils to a bronze statue of P.W. Hofland, which was made in 1878.[7]
Subang has a borderline tropical rainforest climate (Af) and tropical monsoon climate (Am) with exactly in the driest month, August. It has moderate rainfall from June to September and heavy to very heavy rainfall from October to May.