Surabaya

Surabaya, a seaport on the north coast of Java, and on the strait of Madura, over against the island of Madura. Here the Dutch have a marine arsenal, a cannon-foundry, and a mint, and there are machine, sugar, and furniture factories, shipbuilding-yards, and foundries. Sugar, coffee, hides, and tobacco are the chief articles exported; rice and cotton are also grown in the province (area, 2327 sq. m.; pop. 1,856,635), of which Surabaya is the capital. Pop. 127,403, of whom more than 6000 are Europeans and nearly 7500 Chinese.