The origin of the word Lhokseumawe is "Lhok" and "Seumawe". Lhok means deep, bay, sea trough, and Seumawe means swirling water or a center of springs at sea along the offshore of Banda Sakti and surrounding areas.

Before the 20th century, the country was ruled by Uleebalang Kutablang. In 1903 after the resistance of the Aceh fighters against the Dutch colonialists weakened, Aceh began to be mastered. Lhokseumawe became a conquered area and from that time the status of Lhokseumawe to Bestuur Van Lhokseumawe with Zelf Bestuurder was Teuku Abdul Lhokseumawe subject under Aspireleur Aspiration and in Lhokseumawe domiciled also Wedana and Assistant Resident or Bupati.

In the second decade of the twentieth century, among the whole of Aceh, one of the small islands about 11 km² separated by the Krueng Cunda River was filled with public, military, and railway buildings by the Dutch Government. The small island with villages of Kampung Keude Aceh, Kampung Jawa, Kampung Kutablang, Mon Geudong Village, Teumpok Teungoh Village, Hagu Village, Kampung Uteuen Bayi and Kampung Ujong Blang, all of whom have apopulation of 5,500 people are called Lhokseumawe. Building by building fills the land until it embodies a city embryo that has harbors, markets, railway stations and government agency offices.

In the beginning Lhokseumawe combined with Bestuurder Van Cunda. This landing population is increasingly crowded coming from surrounding areas such as Buloh Blang Ara, Matangkuli, Blang Jruen, Lhoksukon, Nisam, Cunda and Pidie

In 1956 with Emergency Law No. 7 of 1956, autonomous districts form within the scope of the province of North Sumatra, where one of the districts is North Aceh with its capital Lhokseumawe.

Based on Law Number 5 Year 1974 on the Principles of Government in the Region, the opportunity to improve the status of Lhokseumawe become Administrative City, on August 14, 1986 with Regional Regulation Number 32 Year 1986 Establishment of Lhokseumawe Administrative City signed by President Soeharto, inaugurated by Minister In Soeparjo Roestam State on August 31, 1987. With the existence of de jure and de facto Lhokseumawe has become Administrative City with an area of 253.87 km ² covering 101 villages and 6 urban villages spread in five districts namely: Banda Sakti Sub-district, Muara Dua sub-district, Dewantara sub-district, Muara Batu sub-district, and Blang Mangat sub-district.

Since 1988, the idea of improving the status of Koth Lhokseumawe into Kotamadya began to be pursued so that then was born Law No. 2 of 2001 on the Establishment of Lhokseumawe on 21 June 2001 signed by President Abdurrahman Wahid, whose territory includes three districts, namely: Banda Sakti Subdistrict, Muara Dua Sub- , and Blang Mangat sub-district.

LHOKSEUMAWE CITY PROFILE

Province: Aceh
Capital: Lhokseumawe
Area: ± 181,10 km²
Legal basis: Law no. 2 Year 2001
District: 4
Housing: 9
Gampong: 68
Phone area code: 0645
Tribe: Aceh
Language: Aceh, Indonesia
Islam
Civil Registry Service (July 2011): 190,648 inhabitants
Central Bureau of Statistics (March 2011): 189,102 inhabitants
Quoted from the official website of the city administration lhokseumawe

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