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Dumai
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Dumai (Jawi: , ), is a coastal city in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, about 188 km from Pekanbaru, the provincial capital. The city has an area of 2,065.59 km2 and had 349,389 inhabitants at the mid 2024 official estimate (comprising 179,604 males and 169,785 females). Dumai has a domestic airport, Pinang Kampai Airport. The city is an important transport and trade centre, both regionally and internationally, especially for traffic to and from Malaysia. The region is rich in oil (petroleum and palm oil). ==History==
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- Dumai
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- City of Dumai
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- Chinese
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- 杜迈
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- Jawi
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- دوماي
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- City
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- Dumai Major's Office.jpg
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- Office building in Dumai
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- Location in Sumatra and Indonesia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city of Indonesia
- Official name
- Kota Dumai
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- Riau
- Contains
- Sungai Sembilan
- Population
- 264084
- Area
- 1727.38
- Elevation
- 7
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Shares border with
- Rokan Hilir
- Official website
- dumaikota.go.id
- Image
- Plaza Dumai Ramayana Dept. Store.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dumai
- topic's main category
- Category:Dumai
- inception
- 1999-04-27
- different from
- Dubai
- Statistics Indonesia area code
- 1473
- name
- Dumai
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Dumai (Jawi: , ), is a coastal city in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, about 188 km from Pekanbaru, the provincial capital. The city has an area of 2,065.59 km2 and had 349,389 inhabitants at the mid 2024 official estimate (comprising 179,604 males and 169,785 females). Dumai has a domestic airport, Pinang Kampai Airport. The city is an important transport and trade centre, both regionally and internationally, especially for traffic to and from Malaysia. The region is rich in oil (petroleum and palm oil). ==History==
Currently Dumai City is the second largest city in the province of Riau, but earlier it was a small hamlet on the east coast of Riau Province. It was inaugurated as a city on 20 April 1999, by Law no. 16 of year 1999, having previously been an administrative town () in Bengkalis Regency.
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