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[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De weg van Buitenzorg naar de Preanger Regentschappen TMnr 3728-429c.jpg|thumb|[[Parahyangan]] highland near Buitenzorg ([[Bogor]] City), c. 1865–1872]]

In the 16th century, [[Dutch East India Company|Dutch]] and [[East India Company|British]] trading companies established trading ships in western Java after the fall of the Sultanate of Banten. For the next three hundred years, western Java fell under the [[Dutch East Indies]]' administration. West Java was officially declared as a province of Indonesia in 1950, referring to a statement from Staatblad number 378. On 17 October 2000, as part of nationwide political decentralization, [[Banten]] was separated from West Java and made into a new province. There have been recent proposals to rename the province '''[[Pasundan]]''' ("Land of [[Sundanese people|Sundanese]] community") after the historical name for West Java.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nasrullah |first=Annas |date=2009-10-29 |title=Tokoh Jabar Siapkan Deklarasi Provinsi Pasundan : Okezone News |url=https://news.okezone.com/read/2009/10/28/340/270205/tokoh-jabar-siapkan-deklarasi-provinsi-pasundan |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=okezone |language=id-ID |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184342/http://news.okezone.com/read/2009/10/28/340/270205/tokoh-jabar-siapkan-deklarasi-provinsi-pasundan |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Government and administrative divisions==