Surabaya has become one of the largest cities in Southeast Asia, and as the province capital, Surabaya is also home for many offices and business centres, And also the main education center, Surabaya has been the home for many students from around Indonesia, thus they have created their own community. Also, Surabaya is the commercial center for the eastern Indonesian region, hence many outsiders live in Surabaya.Interest in Surabaya :
- Go to Surabaya's zoo, opened in 1916, was the first in the world to have successfully bred orangutans in captivity.
- Grand Mosque of Surabaya, the largest mosque in East Java.
- Cheng Ho Mosque, the first mosque in Indonesia built with a Chinese style architecture
- Jales Veva Jaya Mahe Monument, a large, admiral-like statue which commemorates the Indonesian Navy.
- Mpu Tantular Museum, has a large collection of ancient Javanese artifacts.
- Monkasel, abbreviated from Monumen Kapal Selam (English: Submarine Monument), an old submarine placed as a tourism attraction inside which people can wander. Right beside the monument there is a building where a short movie about the history of the submarine itself can be watched.
- Heroic Monument is the main symbol and one of the attractive tourist destinations in Surabaya and Southeast Asia.