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 Serang—735,651, 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 Banten Province, Indonesia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Serang is GeoNames ID 1627549. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Serang → Banten → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Serang 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, Serang ranks 749 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 21; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 425. Its 735,651 population value is 0.63 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 0.73 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Serang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Indonesia entries. Serang'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.
Serang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Tangerang at 53.067 km with 1,927,815 recorded people; South Tangerang at 65.229 km with 1,429,529 recorded people; Jakarta at 77.181 km with 8,540,121 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 24.114 km. Compared with Tangerang, Serang's recorded population is 0.38 times as large. Against Serang, Tangerang follows Kota Tangerang → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Serang's. Against Serang, South Tangerang follows Kota Tangerang Selatan → 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 populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Serang's. Against Serang, Jakarta follows Jakarta → 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 capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Serang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 465 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Serang'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 1627549, the coordinate pair 6.1153 / 106.1542, country rank 21 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1625084 at 53.067 km bind Serang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Serang's reference point is 6.1153° south and 106.1542° 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. Serang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Serang's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Serang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Serang, 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
Serang's closest other entries in this atlas are Tangerang (53.067 km), South Tangerang (65.229 km), Jakarta (77.181 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.