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 Batam—1,296,960, Asia/Jakarta, 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 Riau Islands Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Batam is GeoNames ID 6295587. Its recorded administrative path is Riau → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Batam 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 2026-06-11; 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, Batam ranks 390 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 12; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 227. Its 1,296,960 population value is 1.11 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 1.29 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Batam sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Indonesia population cohort. Batam's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Batam's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Singapore at 24.923 km with 5,638,700 recorded people; Pasir Gudang at 37.219 km with 534,659 recorded people; Johor Bahru at 46.015 km with 858,118 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 21.092 km. Compared with Singapore, Batam's recorded population is 0.23 times as large. Against Batam, Singapore follows Singapore in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Singapore cohort rather than Indonesia, uses Asia/Singapore instead of Asia/Jakarta, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Batam's. Against Batam, Pasir Gudang follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Malaysia cohort rather than Indonesia, uses Asia/Kuala_Lumpur instead of Asia/Jakarta, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Batam's. Against Batam, Johor Bahru follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Malaysia cohort rather than Indonesia, uses Asia/Kuala_Lumpur instead of Asia/Jakarta, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Batam's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 298 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Batam's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 6295587, the coordinate pair 1.1494 / 104.0249, country rank 12 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1880252 at 24.923 km bind Batam to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Batam's reference point is 1.1494° north and 104.0249° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Jakarta is shared by 23 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Batam's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Batam's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Batam's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Batam, 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
Batam's closest other entries in this atlas are Singapore (24.923 km), Pasir Gudang (37.219 km), Johor Bahru (46.015 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-11; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.