1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Indonesia
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Balikpapan—695,287, Asia/Makassar, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Balikpapan is GeoNames ID 1650527. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Balikpapan → East Kalimantan → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Balikpapan occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2023-02-08; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Balikpapan ranks 790 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 22; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 441. Its 695,287 population value is 0.60 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 0.69 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Balikpapan sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Indonesia entries. Balikpapan's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Balikpapan's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Samarinda at 93.192 km with 865,306 recorded people; Banjarmasin at 337.504 km with 657,663 recorded people; Makassar at 519.352 km with 1,474,393 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 426.16 km. Compared with Samarinda, Balikpapan's recorded population is 0.80 times as large. Against Balikpapan, Samarinda follows Kota Samarinda → East Kalimantan → Indonesia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Makassar identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Balikpapan's. Against Balikpapan, Banjarmasin follows Kota Banjarmasin → South Kalimantan → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Makassar identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Balikpapan's. Against Balikpapan, Makassar follows Kota Makassar → South Sulawesi → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Makassar identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Balikpapan's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 664 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Balikpapan's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1650527, the coordinate pair 1.2675 / 116.8289, country rank 22 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1629001 at 93.192 km bind Balikpapan to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Balikpapan's reference point is 1.2675° south and 116.8289° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Makassar is shared by 5 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Balikpapan's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Balikpapan's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Balikpapan's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Balikpapan, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Balikpapan's closest other entries in this atlas are Samarinda (93.192 km), Banjarmasin (337.504 km), Makassar (519.352 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2023-02-08; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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