Bandung

Definition: Bandung

Bandung

Noun

1. A city in Indonesia; located on western Java (southeast of Jakarta); a resort known for its climate.

Crosswords: Bandung

Non-English Usage: "Bandung" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Indonesian (pair).

Bandung (also Bandoeng) is the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. Located on a highland plateau 768 meters above sea level, the city has a population of around 2.1 million, and was to be the capital of the Dutch East Indies until World War II disrupted these plans. Bandung remains home to the Institute Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia's best university of technology.

Bandung is also a Malay/Indonesian drink consisting of milk flavored with rosewater, usually dyed pink.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Mahasiswa bandung (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Profil migran masuk di enam kota besar, Medan, Bandung, Surabaya, Jakarta, Semarang, Ujung Pandang : hasil survei urbanisasi 1995 (reference) Breaking the Chains of Oppression of the Indonesian People: Defense Statement at His Trial on Harges of Insulting the Head of St. Bandung, June 7-10, (reference) From Bandung to Tashkent : glimpses of India's foreign policy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Indonesia	Medan, Bandung, Surabaya, Makassar (Ujung Pandang), and Yogyakarta are other cities with substantial populations of street children. (references)
Economic History	Indonesia	Other cities--Surabaya 3.0 million, Medan 2.5 million, Bandung 2.5 million plus an additional 3 million in the surrounding area. (references)
	Indonesia	Under Sukarno's auspices, these leaders gathered in Bandung, West Java, 1955, to lay the groundwork for what became known as the Non-Aligned Movement. (references)
Human Rights	Indonesia	Nine prisoners at the Kebon Waru Prison in Bandung died from untreated illnesses, according to press reports in July. (references)
	Indonesia	On July 19, the Bandung District Court sentenced two defendants found guilty of involvement in one of the bombings that killed four persons to 9 years in prison. (references)
	Indonesia	For example, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported in June that 19 demonstrators from the Young Christian Worker movement (YCW), the Student League for National Democracy (LMND), and the People's Democratic Party (PRD), were detained and tortured in Bandung. (references)
Travel	Indonesia	Domestic flights are the most convenient way to travel to most in-country destinations, but the train from Jakarta to Bandung is perhaps an exception, as it is highly recommended. (references)
Worker Rights	Indonesia	A number of factories in Bandung were damaged by strikers. (references)
	Indonesia	For instance, in September public school teachers in Atambua, Lampung, Bandung, Banjarmasin, Gorontalo, went on strike over back pay owed to them. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bandung" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "Bandung" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	45.45%	10	111,207
Adjective (general or positive)	45.45%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (past participle)	9.09%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

1. Bandung , Indonesia
Location: 6.57 South,107.34 East
Population (2000 estimate): 1821435
Time Zone: 7 GMT
Country: Indonesia

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bandung

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bandung indonesia	192
bandung	139
bandung hotel	43
bandung cewek	10
bandung institut teknologi	9
bandung gadis	9
bandung conference	8
bandung sex	8
bandung peta	7
bandung vcd	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bandung

Language		Translations for "bandung"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		andungbay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bandung

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-n-n-u"
	-2 letters: unban.
	-3 letters: band, bang, baud, bund, bung, bunn, dang, daub, dung, gaud, gaun, guan.
	-4 letters: and, bad, bag, ban, bud, bug, bun, dab, dag, dub, dug, dun, gab, gad, gan, gnu, gun, nab, nag, nan, nub, nun.
	-5 letters: ab, ad, ag, an, ba, na, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-n-n-u"
	+2 letters: abounding, unbandage.
	+3 letters: husbanding, unbandaged, unbandages, unbraiding.
	+4 letters: landlubbing, unbandaging.
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