Cirebon
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Cirebon (formerly Cheribon) is a city on north coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is located in West Java province, approximately 200 km east of Jakarta, at Template:Coor dm. It has a population of 223,776. Like many of the coastal cities of Java, the city has a large population with ethnic Chinese roots, as a result of long-term immigration from China that began before Dutch colonization in the seventeenth century.
A major event in Cirebon's colonial history was the massive famine of 1844, apparently triggered by a combination of drought and the shift from subsistence agriculture to cash crops, particularly indigo and sugarcane, that had begun as a result of Dutch colonial policy in the 1830s.
Cirebon is also famous for traditional food, such as nasi lengko and nasi jamblang.