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Medan Maimun

district in Medan City, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ4250544 ↗
Source-derived summary

Medan Maimun (Jawi: ماءيمون; Chinese: 麥蒙; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: be̍h mn̂g) is one of 21 districts in the city of Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Boundaries of the district (Indonesian: kecamatan):

To the north: Medan Barat

To the south: Medan Amplas, Medan Johor

To the east: Medan Kota

To the west: Medan Polonia

At the 2010 Census, it had a population of 39,581. The total area is 3.06 square kilometres (1.18 sq mi) and the population density in 2010 was 12,935 per square kilometre (33,500/sq mi).

Residents

The majority of residents of the district are Malays, followed by Chinese, Minangkabau and other ethnic groups.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Medan Maimun” as district in Medan City, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Medan, Maimun and district can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district in Medan City, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4250544. Authority coordinates are 3.578, 98.680. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Medan Maimun”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Medan Maimun primary sources, Medan Maimun archive and Medan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Medan Maimun”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Medan Maimun” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.