North Sumatra

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North Sumatra is a province of Indonesia on Sumatra Island. Its capital Medan located on the northeast coast. It is the most populous Indonesian province outside of Java. It is slightly larger than Sri Lanka in area.

he province of North Sumatra stretches across the island of Sumatra between the Indian Ocean and the Strait Malacca. It borders Aceh province on the northwest and Riau and West Sumatra provinces in the southeast. The province contains a broad, low plain along the Strait of Malacca on which the provincial capital, Medan, is located. In the south and west, the land rises to the mountain range that runs the length of Sumatra; the mountains here are dominated by Lake Toba, formed from the caldera of an ancient volcano. Several large islands in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Sumatra are currently part of North Sumatra, most notably Nias and the Batu Islands.