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 Surakarta—526,870, 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 Surakarta is GeoNames ID 1625812. Its recorded administrative path is Kota Surakarta → Central Java → Indonesia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Surakarta 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, Surakarta ranks 1,074 by recorded population. Inside the 29 selected Indonesia entries it ranks 29; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 567. Its 526,870 population value is 0.45 times the 1,166,066 median for the country cohort and 0.52 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Surakarta sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Indonesia entries. Surakarta'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.
Surakarta's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Semarang at 77.287 km with 1,694,740 recorded people; Jepara at 108.616 km with 1,257,912 recorded people; Malang at 203.694 km with 889,359 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 126.407 km. Compared with Semarang, Surakarta's recorded population is 0.31 times as large. Against Surakarta, Semarang follows Kota Semarang → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Surakarta's. Against Surakarta, Jepara follows Kabupaten Jepara → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Surakarta's. Against Surakarta, Malang follows Kota Malang → East 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Surakarta's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 598 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Surakarta'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 1625812, the coordinate pair 7.5561 / 110.8317, country rank 29 of 29, and neighbor GeoNames 1627896 at 77.287 km bind Surakarta to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Surakarta's reference point is 7.5561° south and 110.8317° 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. Surakarta's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Surakarta's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Surakarta's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Surakarta, 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
Surakarta's closest other entries in this atlas are Semarang (77.287 km), Jepara (108.616 km), Malang (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.