Calang is a town on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, and the capital of Aceh Jaya Regency. It had a population of about 12,000 before the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which was reported to have left the town vanished except for scattered shards of concrete, with only about 30 percent of its townspeople surviving.
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Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Wikipedia: Calang
Infobox settlement, coordinates (latitude)
4°38′N 95°35′E
Infobox settlement, coordinates (longitude)
4°38′N 95°35′E
Lead paragraph, population
population of about 12,000
- In Group: Cities of South-eastern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. GeoNames: Calang - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1215262
4.6306 95.5754 P PPLA2 ID 01 1116 0 10 Asia/Jakarta
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 10 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 4.75, 95.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 4.75, 95.75
4.75 95.75 Af
Wikidata: Calang
Wikidata Q2474681, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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