1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Indonesia
Compare this sourced profile of Palembang, 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 Palembang—1,801,367, 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 South Sumatra Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Palembang is GeoNames ID 1633070. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Palembang → South Sumatra → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Palembang 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 2026-06-10; 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, Palembang ranks 240 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 8; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 141. Its 1,801,367 population value is 1.54 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 1.79 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Palembang falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Indonesia population cohort. Palembang's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Palembang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jambi City at 192.809 km with 635,101 recorded people; Bandar Lampung at 285.155 km with 1,166,066 recorded people; Serang at 388.41 km with 735,651 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 195.601 km. Compared with Jambi City, Palembang's recorded population is 2.84 times as large. Against Palembang, Jambi City follows Kota Jambi → Jambi → 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 first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Palembang's. Against Palembang, Bandar Lampung follows Kota Bandar Lampung → Lampung → 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Palembang's. Against Palembang, Serang follows Kota Serang → Banten → 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 the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Palembang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 973 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Palembang'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 1633070, the coordinate pair 2.9167 / 104.7458, country rank 8 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1642858 at 192.809 km bind Palembang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Palembang's reference point is 2.9167° south and 104.7458° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Jakarta is shared by 23 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Palembang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Palembang's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Palembang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Palembang, 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
Palembang's closest other entries in this atlas are Jambi City (192.809 km), Bandar Lampung (285.155 km), Serang (388.41 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-10; 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.