Bandung City is the largest metropolitan city in West Java

Bandung City is the largest metropolitan city in West Java at once became the capital of the province. The city is located 140 km southeast of Jakarta, and is the third largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya, according to population. While the area of ​​Bandung Raya (Jakarta Metropolitan Area) is the third largest metropolitan area in Indonesia after the Greater Jakarta and Gerbangkertosusila (Grebangkertosusilo). In this historic city, stands a first engineering college in Indonesia (Technische Hoogeschool, now ITB) , became the battleground in the time of independence , and once the venue for the Asian-African Conference 1955, a meeting that voiced the spirit of anti-colonialism, and even the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech said that Bandung is the capital of Asia and Africa.

In 1990 the city of Bandung was one of the safest cities in the world by Time magazine survey.
The city flower is another name for this city, because in earlier times was considered very beautiful city with many trees and flowers that grow there. In addition to Bandung was once also called Parijs van Java because of its beauty. Besides the city of Bandung is also known as the town shopping, with malls and factory outlets are widely spread in this city, and now gradually became a city of Bandung is also a culinary tour. And in 2007, the British Council to make the city of Bandung as a pilot project terkreatif town as East Asia. Today the city of Bandung is one of the main purposes of tourism and education.