Padang is the capital of the province of West Sumatra  in Indonesia. It is the largest city on the western coast of Sumatra. Before Indonesia's independence, Padang was one of the major cities in the Dutch East Indies and the fifth largest city in Sumatra behind Medan, Batam, Palembang and Pekanbaru. It has an area of and an estimated population of 1,024,906 in 2014