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 Pontianak—686,019, Asia/Pontianak, 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 West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pontianak is GeoNames ID 1630789. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Pontianak → West Kalimantan → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Pontianak 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, Pontianak ranks 809 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 23; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 452. Its 686,019 population value is 0.59 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 0.68 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pontianak sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Indonesia entries. Pontianak'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.
Pontianak's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Palembang at 601.612 km with 1,801,367 recorded people; Batam at 603.767 km with 1,296,960 recorded people; Pasir Gudang at 625.058 km with 534,659 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 23.446 km. Compared with Palembang, Pontianak's recorded population is 0.38 times as large. Against Pontianak, Palembang follows Kota Palembang → South Sumatra → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses Asia/Jakarta instead of Asia/Pontianak, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Pontianak's. Against Pontianak, Batam follows Riau → Indonesia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Indonesia cohort, uses Asia/Jakarta instead of Asia/Pontianak, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pontianak's. Against Pontianak, 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/Pontianak, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Pontianak's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,189 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pontianak'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 1630789, the coordinate pair 0.0319 / 109.3250, country rank 23 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1633070 at 601.612 km bind Pontianak to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pontianak's reference point is 0.0319° south and 109.3250° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Pontianak is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Pontianak's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pontianak's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pontianak's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pontianak, 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
Pontianak's closest other entries in this atlas are Palembang (601.612 km), Batam (603.767 km), Pasir Gudang (625.058 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.
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