Pasuruan
city in East Java Province, Indonesia
Pasuruan (Dutch: Pasoeroean) is a city in East Java Province of Java, Indonesia. It had a population of 186,262 at the 2010 Census and 208,006 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid 2025 was 213,838 (comprising 107,013 males and 106,825 females).
It is surrounded on the landward side by, but is administratively separate from, Pasuruan Regency. On the north side it faces onto the Madura Strait. It is located around 65 kilometres southeast of Surabaya, the provincial capital.
Administrative districts
Pasuruan is divided into four districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 and 2020 Censuses, together with the official estimates as of mid 2025. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (urban kelurahan) and their names, and the postal codes.
Note: (a) Panggungrejo District created since 2010 from parts of neighbouring districts; its population in 2010 is included with that of the districts from which it was formed.
Government
Mayor
The Mayor of Pasuruan is the highest-ranking official within the Pasuruan City government. He reports to the Governor of East Java.
“Pasuruan” enters the record as city in East Java Province, Indonesia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pasuruan, city and East can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Pasuruan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pasuruan, city and East provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11449. VIAF identifies the subject as 4026171710784306720007. The Library of Congress control number is n80050030. Authority coordinates are -7.641, 112.906. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2020 and 2025.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pasuruan” 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.