Mataram (Indonesian: Kota Mataram) is a city and the capital of the Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara. The city is surrounded on all the landward sides by (but is not administratively part of) West Lombok Regency and lies on the western side of the island of Lombok, Indonesia. It is also the largest city of the province, and had a population of 402,843 at the 2010 Census^[2] and 429,651 at the 2020 Census;^[3] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 441,147 (comprising 219,625 males and 221,522 females).^[1]

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Mataram
City
City of Mataram Kota Mataram
Clockwise, from top; Hubbul Wathan Islamic center, Mataram seen from above, Mataram City Hall, and Tembolaq Gate
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Location within West Nusa Tenggara
Mataram Location in Lombok, Lesser Sunda Islands and Indonesia Show map of Lombok Mataram Mataram (Lesser Sunda Islands) Show map of Lesser Sunda Islands Mataram Mataram (Indonesia) Show map of Indonesia
Coordinates: 8°35′S 116°7′E
Country	Indonesia
Region	Lesser Sunda Islands
Province	West Nusa Tenggara
Government
• Mayor	Ahyar Abduh
• Vice Mayor	Mohan Roliskana
Area
• Total	61.30 km2 (23.67 sq mi)
Elevation	26 m (85 ft)
Population  (mid 2023 estimate)
• Total	441,147
• Density	7,200/km2 (19,000/sq mi)
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Time zone	UTC+8 (Indonesia Central Time)
Area code	(+62) 370
Website	mataramkota.go.id

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The city is an economic, cultural, and education center of the province. It hosts all public universities in the province, the main airport as well as the only international airport in the province, and also main government offices. Greater Mataram Area (Indonesian: Mataram Raya) or sometimes also called Gumi Rinjani Metropolitan Area^[4] is a metropolitan area surrounding the city with a total population of around 3 million people on 2015, making it one of the largest in the Lesser Sunda Islands along with Denpasar metropolitan area in Bali.^[5]

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There was a small city called Selaparang in East Lombok, which was a centre of Sasak power in Lombok from the 16th to the 17th century AD. West Lombok was under the control of Balinese rajas, based on their states of Mataram and Cakranegara, until the island was invaded and occupied by the Dutch in 1894.

The modern city is an urban sprawl in the middle of West Lombok, composed of three contiguous towns which were formerly separate but now share a single administration. The old port town of Ampenan in the west merges into the administrative centre of Mataram and this in turn merges into the commercial town of Cakranegara. Further east still lies the district of Sweta, the location of Lombok's biggest market as well as Lombok's bus terminal. The towns are linked by a wide, 8km-long one-way street which begins as Jalan Langko in Apenan, becomes Jalan Pejanggik in Mataram and finishes as Jalan Selaparang in Cakranegara; it then continues east as the principal cross-island highway to Labuhan Lombok and then Kayangan, site of the Lombok-Sumbawa ferry.

Mataram has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) with heavy rainfall from November to March and moderate to little rainfall from April to October.