Palembang

[ pah-lem-bahng ]

noun

1. a city in SE Sumatra, in W Indonesia.

Palembang

/ pɑːˈlɛmbɑːŋ /

noun

1. a port in W Indonesia, in S Sumatra; oil refineries; university (1955). Pop: 1 451 419 (2000)

Example Sentences

Merry saw how the thing was done one steamy hot day at Palembang, and he saw quite stark and plain.

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He says that they come from Palembang and Menangcaboo, and he calls them Pithecomorphi.

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They get some silk from Palembang, and rear a little themselves.

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Palembang on the lower swampy course of the River Musi has a floating suburb of this sort.

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The island was formerly under the sultan of Palembang, by whom it was ceded to the British in 1812.

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