1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Indonesia
Compare this sourced profile of Malang, Indonesia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Malang—889,359, 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 East Java Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Malang is GeoNames ID 1636722. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Malang → East Java → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Malang 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, Malang ranks 625 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 18; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 361. Its 889,359 population value is 0.76 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Malang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Indonesia entries. Malang'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.
Malang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Surabaya at 82.308 km with 3,018,022 recorded people; Situbondo at 154.956 km with 685,967 recorded people; Surakarta at 203.694 km with 526,870 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 121.386 km. Compared with Surabaya, Malang's recorded population is 0.29 times as large. Against Malang, Surabaya follows Kota Surabaya → East Java → Indonesia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Malang's. Against Malang, Situbondo follows Kabupaten Situbondo → East Java → Indonesia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is below Malang's. Against Malang, Surakarta follows Kota Surakarta → Central Java → Indonesia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses the shared Asia/Jakarta identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Malang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 627 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Malang'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 1636722, the coordinate pair 7.9797 / 112.6304, country rank 18 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1625822 at 82.308 km bind Malang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Malang's reference point is 7.9797° south and 112.6304° 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. Malang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Malang's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Malang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Malang, 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
Malang's closest other entries in this atlas are Surabaya (82.308 km), Situbondo (154.956 km), Surakarta (203.694 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.