Crossword clues for padang
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Padang ( Jawi: ) is the capital of the province of West Sumatra in Indonesia. It is the largest city on the western coast of Sumatra. Before Indonesia's independence, Padang was one of the major cities in the Dutch East Indies and nowadays the fifth largest city in Sumatra behind Medan, Batam, Palembang and Pekanbaru. It has an area of and the population of 1.000.096 in 2014.
Padang is one of the cleanest big cities in Indonesia. Up to 2009, Padang has received the "Adipura" (cleanest and greenest city) award in the category of large city 17 times and the "Adipura Kencana" award three times.
Padang is exactly at the antipodes of Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
Padang may refer to:
Usage examples of "padang".
The night streets of Padang had a cavernous smell, of dank asphalt and rotting fish.
I work a few days a month at the state hospital in Padang and I was delighted when Jala introduced me to Diane, even if he was simply looking for a place to temporarily hide a prospective client.
She could have passed for any secularized mall-dweller in downtown Padang, though she was too tall and too pale to really fool anyone.
The rude men looking for the clinic could be New Reformasi from Padang, or local cops, or they might be working for Interpol or the State Department or whatever other agency the Chaykin administration chose to swing like a hammer.
Diane to the hotel in Padang and then interrogated the driver who brought you there.
All the police activity, Ina said, had been on the new highway between Bukik Tinggi and Padang, and because we were traveling in a loose convoy with other villagers we ought to have plenty of warning before we were pulled over.
After many squawkings, orations, protests and uses of veto, an area of eighty square miles just south of Padang in Sumatra was finally ceded as a Rosk base.
They caught him as easy as kiss your hand, and persuaded him to carry vital information down here, to a Rosk contact in Padang who will pass it to the Rosk Sumatra base.
When he had finally plodded into Padang, ninety minutes ago, after a fruitless search along the river bank for Dickens, he had felt half-dead.
Then I got back to Padang myself as quickly as possible, meeting up with Stobart and Dickens.
Next in size to the Perak is the Kinta, which falls into the Perak, besides which there are the Bernam and Batang Padang rivers, both navigable for vessels of light draught.
Hell be no good for anything from now on, the said to himself, he would send him to Padang and back on home to Ceylon.
Then he wandered around Padang until he found the man he was looking for.
Captain van Toch anywhere in Surabaya, in Batavia, in Padang or anywhere you like.
In Padang I took some leave due to me and sent a hundred and seven pearls to those Jew-boys in Amsterdam, everything those animals of mine had brought me.