1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Indonesia
Compare this sourced profile of Semarang, 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 Semarang—1,694,740, 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 Central Java Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Semarang is GeoNames ID 1627896. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Semarang → Central Java → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Semarang 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, Semarang ranks 260 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 153. Its 1,694,740 population value is 1.45 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 1.68 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Semarang sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Indonesia population cohort. Semarang'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.
Semarang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jepara at 52.42 km with 1,257,912 recorded people; Surakarta at 77.287 km with 526,870 recorded people; Tasikmalaya at 245.565 km with 770,839 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 193.145 km. Compared with Jepara, Semarang's recorded population is 1.35 times as large. Against Semarang, Jepara follows Kabupaten Jepara → Central 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Semarang's. Against Semarang, Surakarta follows Kota Surakarta → Central 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Semarang's. Against Semarang, Tasikmalaya follows Kota Tasikmalaya → 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Semarang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 453 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Semarang's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter 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 1627896, the coordinate pair 6.9931 / 110.4208, country rank 9 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1642548 at 52.42 km bind Semarang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Semarang's reference point is 6.9931° south and 110.4208° 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. Semarang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Semarang's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Semarang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Semarang, 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
Semarang's closest other entries in this atlas are Jepara (52.42 km), Surakarta (77.287 km), Tasikmalaya (245.565 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.