In 1982, there was an expansion of the territory with the inclusion of three new districts[6][7] A report by the Banten regent William Craft to Governor-General Cornelis Speelman states that, on the basis of a description provided by Pangeran Aria Dipati Ningrat on 17 June 1682, "Lampung-Telokbetong at the edge of the sea is the seat of power of a Dipati Temenggung Nata Negara, with power over three thousand people".

[8] Under the Dutch colonial administration, 1912 Staatsblad 462 codified the city as being part and parcel of the Onderafdeling Telokbetong, composed of present-day Teluk Betung and its environs.

The Onderafdeling's capital was Tanjung Karang, while Teluk Betung itself served as the seat of government for the Karesidenan Lampung.

Bandar Lampung was created in the 1980s from the amalgamation of the former provincial capital, Tanjungkarang, with the port of Telukbetung.

Bandar Lampung is the chief port and transportation center for the surrounding agricultural area, which produces rubber, tea, coffee, and pepper for export.

Bandar Lampung is the fourth-largest city in the region of Sumatra, after Medan, Palembang and Batam.

[1] The dominant ethnic groups in Bandar Lampung are Javanese, primarily composed of the descendants of people transported from Java in the early 20th century by the Dutch and the transmigration program of the New Order regime.

This city is the largest population of Sundanese and Bantenese outside of West Java who have lived since the Banten Sultanate era.

Bandar Lampung has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall year-round.

The most popular is a minibus called angkot, an abbreviation from Angkutan Kota (literally translated as 'City Transportation').

Bandarlampung Transportation Office has announced that in October 2011 it will serve two of the seven routes planned by bus rapid transit—the Rajabasa-Sukaraja and Sukaraja-Korpri housing complexes in Sukarame.