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Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung, also Bandar Lampung, city in western Indonesia, on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra, along the Sunda Strait. Located on Lampung Bay, the muncipality is made of the sister cities Tanjungkarang, the inland capital of Lampung Province; and Telukbetung, a coastal administrative center. The city's economy is dominated by services, many of which are related to the government's transmigration program. Since the early 20th century the transmigration program has given incentives for Indonesians to leave the crowded islands of Java and Bali for less-crowded provinces. A large number of migrants have settled around Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung, where they have developed farmland and kept close economic ties with their former homes. Manufacturing and agriculture in Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung are minor, together accounting for only about 20 percent of the workforce. The city is connected to the resource-rich provinces to the north by the Trans-Sumatra Highway and by a railway, built in 1913.
When the volcano Krakatau, which sits in the Sunda Strait, erupted in 1883, Tanjungkarang and Telukbetung were covered in ash; many houses and crops were destroyed. In the early 1980s the two cities were combined. The new city's population grew at a rate of 4.9 percent per year in the 1980s, well above the national average. Population (1990) 636,418.
