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Surabaya ( Indonesian pronunciation: [surəˈbaja] ) (formerly Dutch : Soerabaja/Soerabaia Javanese : Suroboyo ) is the capital of Jawa Timur (East Java), located on northeastern Java island and along the edge of the Madura Strait and the second-largest-city in Indonesia . At the 2010 census, the city had a population over 2.8 million and its built-up ( or metro ) area, 7,302,283 inhabitants made of 2 cities and 50 districts spreads on Gresik, Sidoarjo, Mojokerto and Pasuruan regencies.
The city is known as Kota Pahlawan "city of heroes" due to the importance of the Battle of Surabaya in galvanizing Indonesian and international support for Indonesian independence during the Indonesian National Revolution . Surabaya was once the largest city in Dutch East Indies and virtually the center of trading in the nation, exceeding those of Batavia , competing with the likes of Singapore and Hong Kong .
Surabaya ( Suroboyo ) is locally believed to derive its name from the words " suro" ( shark ) and " boyo" ( crocodile ), two creatures which, in a local myth , fought each other in order to gain the title of "the strongest and most powerful animal" in the area. It was said that the two powerful animals agreed for a truce and set boundaries; that the shark's domain would be in the sea while the crocodile's domain would be on the land. However one day the shark swam into the river estuary to hunt, this angere