Pasuruan

Pasuruan is a city on the north coast of East Java Province on the island of Java, Indonesia, facing the Madura Strait about 65 kilometres southeast of the provincial capital Surabaya. Its Dutch colonial spelling was Pasoeroean. The city is surrounded on the landward side by Pasuruan Regency but is administratively separate from it, and is divided into four districts. It had 186,262 people at the 2010 census, 208,006 at the 2020 census and an official estimate of 213,838 for mid-2025. The climate is tropical savanna with almost no rain from May to November and heavy rain from December to April. Pasuruan lies on the main road between Surabaya and Banyuwangi and has a railway station with intercity and commuter trains. From 1896 to 1969 a steam tram carried passengers and sugarcane, tea and tobacco, and the city has two football clubs.