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Jakarta

Jakarta is 's capital and largest city, with about 10 million inhabitants, and a total 30 million in on the island, making it the largest city in .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Jakarta and South Jakarta.

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acts as the commercial and business district of Jakarta. By day the many office buildings are filled with workers; by night, people stream into the shopping malls.

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is one of the municipalities of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, known for its upscale residential areas and shopping malls, and a part of the city's business district with tall office buildings and wide boulevards.

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is a culture-based theme park and recreational area in , on the island of Java, Indonesia.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as West Jakarta and North Jakarta.

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is part of the Old Batavia and is home to Jakarta's Chinatown, called the Glodok area. Glodok is more of electronic promenade of Jakarta, but is rich in street hawker food and Chinese restaurants, as well as old Chinese temple complexes.

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is one of the municipalities of the Indonesian capital, along the Java Sea coast, and the location where Jakarta began to take shape. The colonial Dutch legacy still lives on at the Old Town and the Sunda Kelapa harbour.

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is the industrial quarter of Jakarta, and the location of Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, where you can see parts of Indonesia's multi-ethnic community in one park; several golf courses; Cibubur campground; and Jakarta's second airport, Halim Perdanakusuma airport.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include National Library of the Republic of Indonesia and Monas Park.

Library
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The is the legal deposit library of . It is located at Gambir, on the south side of .

Park
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Merdeka Square is a large square located in the center of Jakarta, . Merdeka is the Indonesian word for freedom or independence. Measuring approximately one square kilometer in area, if the surrounding fields within the Merdeka Square are included, it is considered one of the largest squares in the world.

Museum
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The is a museum in Palmerah, , Indonesia. The museum houses a collection of textiles from various islands in Indonesia.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pasar Baru and Glodok.

Village
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is an subdistrict in the district in , . It has postal code of 10710.

Village
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is an urban village of Taman Sari, , . The area is also known as Pecinan or Chinatown since the Dutch colonial era, and is considered the biggest in Indonesia.

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is a district of , Jakarta in . It was best known for the former and it has been transforming as a new central business district.

Jakarta

Latitude
-6.1866° or 6° 11′ 12″ south
Longitude
106.8032° or 106° 48′ 12″ east
Population
10,500,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
JKT
United Nations Location Code
ID JKT
Open location code
6P58RR73+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29939632
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1642911
Wiki­data ID
Q3630
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Jakarta” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “DKI Jakarta”
  • Achinese: “Jakarta”
  • Adyghe: “Джакартэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Djakarta”
  • Albanian: “Xhakarta”
  • Amharic: “ጃካርታ”
  • Angika: “जकार्ता”
  • Arabic: “بيتافيا”
  • Arabic: “جاكارتا”
  • Arabic: “جاكرتا”
  • Aragonese: “Jakarta”
  • Aragonese: “Yakarta”
  • Armenian: “Ջակարտա”
  • Assamese: “জাকাৰ্টা”
  • Asturian: “Xakarta”
  • Awadhi: “जाकर्ता”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cakarta”
  • Balinese: “Daérah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta”
  • Balinese: “Daerah Khusus Jakarta”
  • Bambara: “Jakarta”
  • Banjar: “Dairah Khusus Indung banua Jakarta”
  • Banjar: “Jakarta”
  • Bashkir: “Батавия”
  • Bashkir: “Джакарта”
  • Bashkir: “Сунда Келапа”
  • Basque: “Jakarta”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Jakarta”
  • Belarusian: “Джакарта”
  • Bengali: “জাকার্তা”
  • Betawi: “Jakarta”
  • Betawi: “Jakartè”
  • Betawi: “Jekarta‘”
  • Bhojpuri: “जकार्ता”
  • Bosnian: “Džakarta”
  • Bosnian: “Jakarta”
  • Breton: “Jakarta”
  • Bulgarian: “Джакарта”
  • Burmese: “ဂျကာတာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Djakarta”
  • Catalan: “Jakarta”
  • Cebuano: “Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta”
  • Cebuano: “Daerah Khusus Jakarta”
  • Cebuano: “Jakarta”
  • Central Bikol: “Jakarta”
  • Central Kurdish: “جاکارتا”
  • Chechen: “Джакарта”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏤᏙ”
  • Cheyenne: “Jakarta”
  • Chinese: “Jakarta”
  • Chinese: “巴达维亚”
  • Chinese: “椰城”
  • Chinese: “耶加达”
  • Chinese: “耶加達”
  • Chinese: “雅加达 / 雅加達”
  • Chinese: “雅加达”
  • Chinese: “雅加达特殊地域”
  • Chinese: “雅加達”
  • Chinese: “雅加達特殊省”
  • Chuvash: “Джакарта”
  • Cornish: “Jakarta”
  • Corsican: “Giacarta”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Cakarta”
  • Croatian: “Jakarta”
  • Czech: “Jakarta”
  • Danish: “Jakarta”
  • Dotyali: “जाकार्ता”
  • Dutch: “Batavia” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Djakarta”
  • Dutch: “DKI Jakarta”
  • Dutch: “Jakarta”
  • Dutch: “Koningin van het Oosten” (historical)
  • Eastern Mari: “Джакарта”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جاكارتا”
  • Erzya: “Джакарта ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ĝakarto”
  • Estonian: “Jakarta”
  • Extremaduran: “Yakarta”
  • Faroese: “Jakarta”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Jakarta”
  • Fijian: “Jakarta”
  • Fijian: “Jakata”
  • Finnish: “Jakarta”
  • French: “Batavia”
  • French: “Djakarta”
  • French: “Jakarta”
  • Friulian: “Jakarta”
  • Galician: “Iacarta”
  • Gan Chinese: “雅加達”
  • Georgian: “ჯაკარტა”
  • German: “DKI Jakarta”
  • German: “Hauptstadtregion Jakarta”
  • German: “Jakarta”
  • Gorontalo: “Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta”
  • Gorontalo: “Daerah Khusus Jakarta”
  • Greek: “Τζακάρτα”
  • Guarani: “Jakáta”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Jakarta”
  • Gujarati: “જકાર્તા”
  • Gujarati: “જાકાર્તા”
  • Haitian: “Jakarta”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Jakarta”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngâ-kâ-tha̍t Sú-tû Thi̍t-khî”
  • Hakka Chinese: “雅加達特殊省”
  • Hausa: “Jakarta”
  • Hawaiian: “Jakarta”
  • Hebrew: “ג’אקארטה”
  • Hebrew: “ג׳אקארטה”
  • Hebrew: “ג’קארטה”
  • Hebrew: “ג׳קארטה”
  • Hebrew: “ג’קרטה”
  • Hebrew: “ג׳קרטה”
  • Hindi: “जकार्ता”
  • Hungarian: “Dzsakarta”
  • Hungarian: “Jakarta”
  • Iban: “Jakarta”
  • Icelandic: “Djakarta”
  • Icelandic: “Jakarta”
  • Ido: “Jakarta”
  • Iloko: “Jakarta”
  • Inari Sami: “Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Khusus Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Djakarta”
  • Indonesian: “DKI Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “DKJ”
  • Indonesian: “Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Prov. Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Daerah Khusus Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi DKI Jakarta”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Jakarta”
  • Ingush: “Джакарта”
  • Interlingua: “Jakarta”
  • Interlingue: “Jakarta”
  • Irish: “Iacárta”
  • Italian: “Giacarta”
  • Japanese: “ジャガタラ”
  • Japanese: “ジャカルタ”
  • Japanese: “ジャカルタ特別市”
  • Japanese: “ジャカルタ特殊州”
  • Japanese: “ジャヤカルタ”
  • Japanese: “スンダクラパ”
  • Japanese: “バタヴィア” (historical)
  • Javanese: “DKI Jakarta”
  • Javanese: “Jakarta”
  • Javanese: “Jakartah”
  • Kabiyè: “Jakarita”
  • Kabyle: “Ǧakaṛta”
  • Kabyle: “Jakarta”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Jakarta”
  • Kalaallisut: “Jakarta”
  • Kannada: “ಜಕಾರ್ಟ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಕಾರ್ತ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Jakarta”
  • Kashmiri: “جَکارتا”
  • Kazakh: “Джакарта”
  • Khmer: “ចាកាតា”
  • Khmer: “ចាការតា”
  • Khmer: “ហ្សាការតា”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Jakarta”
  • Kirghiz: “Жакарта”
  • Komering: “Jakarta”
  • Komi: “Джакарта”
  • Kongo: “Jakarta”
  • Korean: “자까르따”
  • Korean: “자까르따특수지역”
  • Korean: “자카르타”
  • Korean: “자카르타특수주”
  • Korean: “자카르타특수지역”
  • Kurdish: “Cakarta”
  • Ladin: “Jacarta”
  • Ladino: “Djakarta”
  • Lao: “ຈາກາຕາ”
  • Latin: “Batavia”
  • Latin: “Iacarta”
  • Latin: “Iacartum”
  • Latin: “Jakarta”
  • Latvian: “Džakarta”
  • Lezghian: “Джакарта”
  • Ligurian: “Giacarta”
  • Limburgan: “Jakarta”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Djacarta”
  • Literary Chinese: “雅加達”
  • Lithuanian: “Batavija”
  • Lithuanian: “Džakarta”
  • Livvi: “Džakarta”
  • Lombard: “Giacarta”
  • Low German: “Jakarta”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Jakarta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jakarta”
  • Macedonian: “Џакарта”
  • Madurese: “Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta”
  • Madurese: “Daerah Khusus Jakarta”
  • Maithili: “जकार्ता”
  • Malagasy: “Jakarta”
  • Malay: “DKI Jakarta”
  • Malay: “Jakarta”
  • Malay: “جاکرتا”
  • Malayalam: “ജക്കാർത്ത”
  • Maltese: “Ġakarta”
  • Maltese: “Jakarta”
  • Maori: “Jakarta”
  • Maori: “Tiakāta”
  • Marathi: “जकार्ता”
  • Mazanderani: “جاکارتا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Jakarta”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jakarta”
  • Minangkabau: “Batavia”
  • Minangkabau: “Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta”
  • Minangkabau: “Daerah Kusuih Jakarta”
  • Minangkabau: “Djakarta”
  • Minangkabau: “DKI Jakarta”
  • Minangkabau: “Jakarta”
  • Mingrelian: “ჯაკარტა”
  • Mirandese: “Jacarta”
  • Moksha: “Джакарта”
  • Mongolian: “Жакарта”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جاكارطا”
  • Nauru: “Jakarta”
  • Nepali: “जाकार्ता”
  • Newari: “जकार्ता”
  • Nias: “Jakarta”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jakarta”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون جاکارتا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jakarta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jakarta”
  • Norwegian: “Jakarta”
  • Novial: “Jakarta”
  • Nyanja: “Jakarta”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jakarta”
  • Oriya: “ଜାକର୍ତା”
  • Ossetian: “Джакартæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਕਾਰਤਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Jakarta”
  • Persian: “جاکارتا”
  • Picard: “Jakarta”
  • Piemontese: “Giacarta”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Jakarta”
  • Polish: “Dżakarta”
  • Portuguese: “Jacarta”
  • Portuguese: “Jakarta”
  • Pushto: “جاکارتا”
  • Pushto: “جکارتا”
  • Quechua: “Jakarta”
  • Romanian: “Jakarta”
  • Russia Buriat: “Джакарта”
  • Russian: “Батавия”
  • Russian: “Джакарта”
  • Russian: “Особый столичный округ Джакарта”
  • Russian: “Сунда Келапа”
  • Rusyn: “Джакарта”
  • Samogitian: “Džakarta”
  • Sanskrit: “जकार्ता”
  • Sanskrit: “तरुमानगरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱟᱠᱟᱨᱛᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Giacarta”
  • Scots: “Jakarta”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Jakarta”
  • Serbian: “Џакарта”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Džakarta”
  • Shona: “Jakarta”
  • Sicilian: “Giacarta”
  • Sicilian: “Giakarta”
  • Sicilian: “Jakarta”
  • Silesian: “Dżakarta”
  • Sindhi: “جڪارتا”
  • Sindhi: “جڪارتہ”
  • Sinhala: “ජකර්තා”
  • Sinhala: “ජකාර්තා”
  • Slovak: “Džakarta”
  • Slovak: “Jakarta”
  • Slovenian: “Batavia”
  • Slovenian: “Djakarta”
  • Slovenian: “Džajakarta”
  • Slovenian: “Džakarta”
  • Slovenian: “Jakarta”
  • Slovenian: “Sunda Kelapa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جاکارتا”
  • Spanish: “Batavia”
  • Spanish: “Djakarta”
  • Spanish: “Jakarta”
  • Spanish: “Yakarta”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Jakarta”
  • Sundanese: “DKI Jakarta”
  • Sundanese: “Jakarta”
  • Swahili: “Jakarta”
  • Swedish: “Jakarta”
  • Swiss German: “Jakarta”
  • Tagalog: “Jakarta”
  • Tagalog: “Yakarta”
  • Tajik: “Ҷакарта”
  • Talysh: “Cakarta”
  • Talysh: “Čakartə”
  • Tamil: “ஜகார்த்தா”
  • Tatar: “Cakarta”
  • Tatar: “Джакарта”
  • Telugu: “జకార్తా”
  • Tetum: “Jakarta”
  • Thai: “เขตเมืองหลวงพิเศษจาการ์ตา”
  • Thai: “จาการ์ตา”
  • Tibetan: “ཊ་ཁར་ཏ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Sakata”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Jakarta”
  • Tumbuka: “Jakarta”
  • Turkish: “Cakarta”
  • Turkish: “Jakarta”
  • Turkmen: “Jakarta”
  • Twi: “Gyakata”
  • Twi: “Jakarta”
  • Udmurt: “Джакарта”
  • Uighur: “جاكارتا”
  • Ukrainian: “Джакарта”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Jakarta”
  • Urdu: “جکارتا”
  • Urdu: “جکارتہ”
  • Uzbek: “Jakarta”
  • Venetian: “Jacarta”
  • Venetian: “Xacarta”
  • Veps: “Batavii”
  • Veps: “Džakart”
  • Vietnamese: “gia-các-ta”
  • Vietnamese: “Jakarta”
  • Vlaams: “Jakarta”
  • Volapük: “Jakarta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jakarta”
  • Welsh: “Jakarta”
  • Western Armenian: “Ճաքարթա”
  • Western Frisian: “Djakarta”
  • Western Frisian: “Jakarta”
  • Western Panjabi: “جکارتا”
  • Western Panjabi: “جکارتہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “雅加達”
  • Yakut: “Дьакаарта”
  • Yakut: “Дьакарта”
  • Yiddish: “דזשאקארטא”
  • Yoruba: “Jakarta”
  • Yue Chinese: “耶加達”
  • Zhuang: “Jakarta”
  • Zhuang: “Yajgyadaz”
  • Zulu: “i-Jakarta”
  • “Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta”
  • “Daerah Khusus Jakarta”
  • “DK Jakarta”
  • “Džakarta”
  • “Giacarta”
  • “Jakarta”
  • “ma tomo Sakata”
  • “Yakarta”
  • “जकार्ता”

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