Is Surabaya an Indonesian country?

Surabaya is the capital and largest city of East Java, Indonesia. It is located in the east of Java Island, southwest of Surabaya Strait on the northeast coast, facing Madu Island across the gorge. It is the second largest seaport and city in Indonesia and has been a foreign trade port of Showa since the Middle Ages. It has a population of 3.5 million, including 500,000 people from China.

Surabaya (Javanese Surabaya) originally meant sharks and crocodiles, so it was originally named desolate swamp. China people find it difficult to speak, and the homonym is "Slim" first, and then it is further refined into the authentic Chinese name "Surabaya". Surabaya is the gateway of Borneo volcano, with an area of 326 square kilometers and a permanent population of 2.7 million. To the north of the city is Tanjung, a famous port near Wurong Naval Base.

The origin of Surabaya place names

A legend about the origin of the place name of Surabaya is very similar to Macao (Macao is named after Mazu Pavilion). At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Jing rebelled against the rule of Qing Dynasty in the southeast coast of China: from the first year of Li Yong in Nanming (1646) to the nineteenth year of Kangxi (1680), Zhangzhou in southern Fujian suffered from years of war and people were displaced.

A large number of refugees from China and Fujian came to Indonesia, bringing with them the folk belief "Sizhou Buddha" from China and Fujian, namely "Poseidon Guanyin", and building temples in Surabaya to protect people from sharks and crocodiles. Later, the temple "Sishui Temple" dedicated to "Poseidon Guanyin Sizhou Buddha" in Chinese gradually evolved into the place name of "Sishui".

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Surabaya