North Sumatra

Indonesia

North Sumatra connects to 4092 places across 25 topics through 188 Bunkabop connections, with government, history, and cuisine making up the heaviest clusters. Strong co-connections include Jakarta, Medan, and neighboring Aceh. Evidence spans the region's medieval kingdoms, including states named in the 14th-century Negarakertagama epic as defeated by Majapahit, through Dutch colonial labor imports from Java, southern China, and southern India, to the cuisine of Batak Muslim communities such as the Mandailing people.