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 Jakarta—8,540,121, 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: capital and largest city of Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Jakarta is GeoNames ID 1642911. Its recorded administrative path is Jakarta → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Jakarta 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 2026-02-23; 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, Jakarta ranks 31 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 21. Its 8,540,121 population value is 7.32 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 8.47 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jakarta falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Indonesia population cohort. Jakarta's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Jakarta's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bekasi at 16.128 km with 2,648,272 recorded people; South Tangerang at 16.295 km with 1,429,529 recorded people; Depok at 20.821 km with 2,163,635 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 4.693 km. Compared with Bekasi, Jakarta's recorded population is 3.22 times as large. Against Jakarta, Bekasi follows Kota Bekasi → West Java → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Jakarta's. Against Jakarta, South Tangerang follows Kota Tangerang Selatan → Banten → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Jakarta's. Against Jakarta, Depok follows Kota Depok → West Java → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Jakarta's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 224 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jakarta'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 1642911, the coordinate pair 6.2146 / 106.8451, country rank 1 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1649378 at 16.128 km bind Jakarta to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Jakarta's reference point is 6.2146° south and 106.8451° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Jakarta is shared by 23 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Jakarta's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Jakarta's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jakarta's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jakarta, 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
Jakarta's closest other entries in this atlas are Bekasi (16.128 km), South Tangerang (16.295 km), Depok (20.821 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-02-23; 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.