Greater Jakarta
Greater Jakarta is a region in Western Java in Indonesia, including the national capital Jakarta and the surrounding region. It also spans areas of the provinces of West Java and Banten.Photo: Wikimedia, Copyrighted free use.
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Top destinations include Jakarta and Bekasi.
Jakarta
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Jakarta is Indonesia's capital and largest city, with about 10 million inhabitants, and a total 41.9 million in Greater Jakarta on the Java island, making it the largest city in Southeast Asia and, by some measures, the largest city in the world.
Bekasi
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Bekasi is a city in the province of West Java in Indonesia, and is part of the Jabodetabek Greater Jakarta metropolitan area. The city is both a commuter city for Jakarta and an industrial city in its own right, with a large number of factories located in and around the city.
Central Jakarta
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Depok
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Depok is a city in the province of West Java in Indonesia. The city, with a population of almost 2 million, is part of the Jabodetabek Greater Jakarta metropolitan area and is just south of the national capital.
Tangerang
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Tangerang is a city in the province of Banten, and part of the Jabodetabek Greater Jakarta metropolitan area, just west of the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
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Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, in Western Java serves Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, the wider Greater Jakarta metropolitan area, and a large part of Western Java.
South Tangerang
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South Tangerang is a city in the province of Banten, and part of the Jabodetabek Greater Jakarta metropolitan area. South Tangerang is a densely populated urban area consisting of several towns and Jakarta suburbs.
Thousand Islands
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Thousand Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Jakarta in Western Java, Indonesia. Administratively, it is a part of the Jakarta Special Capital Region.
Greater Jakarta
- Type: territory with 31,800,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area in Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Jabodetabek”, “Jabodetabekpunjur”, and “Jakarta metropolitan area”
- Category: metropolitan area
- Location: Western Java, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-6.25° or 6° 15′ southLongitude of center
106.75° or 106° 45′ eastPopulation
31,800,000Wikidata ID
Q1015978
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Greater Jakarta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة جاكرتا العاصمة”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon métropolitan Jakarta”
- Catalan: “Jabodetabek”
- Chinese: “大雅加達地區”
- Chinese: “大雅加達都會區”
- Chinese: “雅加達大都會區”
- Chinese: “雅加達都會區”
- Chinese: “雅茂德丹勿”
- Chinese: “雅茂德坦勿”
- Czech: “Jabodetabek”
- Czech: “Jabotabek”
- Danish: “Jabotabek”
- Dutch: “Jabodetabek”
- Dutch: “Jabotabek”
- Esperanto: “Jabodetabek”
- Finnish: “Jabodetabek”
- Finnish: “Jabotabek”
- French: “Aire métropolitaine de Jakarta”
- French: “Jabodetabek”
- Galician: “área metropolitana de Iacarta”
- Galician: “Área metropolitana de Iacarta”
- Galician: “Jabodetabekpunjur”
- German: “Jabodetabek”
- German: “Jabotabek”
- Indonesian: “Jabodetabek”
- Indonesian: “Jabodetabekjur”
- Indonesian: “Jabodetabekpunjur”
- Indonesian: “Jakarta Raya”
- Indonesian: “Kawasan metropolitan Jakarta”
- Italian: “Area metropolitana di Giacarta”
- Japanese: “ジャボタベック”
- Japanese: “ジャボデタベック”
- Japanese: “大ジャカルタ”
- Persian: “منطقه کلانشهری جاکارتا”
- Polish: “Jabodetabek”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Jacarta”
- Russian: “Большая Джакарта”
- Slovenian: “Jabodetabek”
- Slovenian: “Jabodetabekjur”
- Slovenian: “Velika Džakarta”
- Spanish: “Gran Yacarta”
- Spanish: “Gran Yakarta”
- Swedish: “Jabodetabekjur”
- Swedish: “Jabotabek”
- Thai: “เขตอภิมหานครจาการ์ตา”
- Turkish: “Büyük Cakarta”
- Turkish: “Cabodetabek”
- Turkish: “Greater Jakarta”
- Turkish: “Jabodetabek”
- Urdu: “جکارتا میٹروپولیٹن علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Jabodetabek”
- Vietnamese: “Jabotabek”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng đô thị Jakarta”
- Welsh: “Jakarta Fawr”
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