Cimahi is a city located west of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia in the Bandung Metropolitan Area. The city is a major textile producer exporter, and is host to several military education facilities. It has an area of 48.42 km and 482,763 people in 2005, with a density of 9,970 people/km. For 2007 the population was 518,985. Under the colonial Dutch East Indies government Cimahi was the location of one of the region's main military sites.