Central Jakarta
Central Jakarta 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: administrative city of Indonesia with 1,060,000 residents
- Description: city in Jakarta Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Adm. Jakarta Pusat”, “Central Jakarta City”, “Jakarta Central”, “Jakarta Pusat”, and “Wilayah Djakarta Pusat”
- Neighbors: East Jakarta, North Jakarta, South Jakarta, and West Jakarta
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Library of the Republic of Indonesia and Monas Park.
National Library of the Republic of Indonesia
Library
Photo: Meursault2004, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Library of the Republic of Indonesia is the legal deposit library of Indonesia. It is located at Gambir, on the south side of Merdeka Square, Jakarta.
Monas Park
Park
Photo: Ramayoni, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Merdeka Square is a large square located in the center of Jakarta, Indonesia. 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.
Gambir railway station
Railway station
Photo: Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gambir Station is a major railway station in Gambir, Gambir, Central Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. The station is located on the eastern side of Merdeka Square and the western side of the Pramuka Movement headquarters and Immanuel Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pasar Baru and Kemayoran.
Pasar Baru
Village
Kemayoran
Village
Photo: Wie146, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kemayoran is a district of Central Jakarta, Jakarta in Indonesia. It was best known for the former Kemayoran Airport and it has been transforming as a new central business district.
Central Jakarta
- Location: Jakarta, Greater Jakarta, Western Java, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Vietnamese—“Central Jakarta” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat”
- Arabic: “وسط جاكرتا”
- Armenian: “Կենտրոնական Ջակարտա”
- Azerbaijani: “Mərkəzi Cakarta”
- Balinese: “Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat”
- Belarusian: “Цэнтральная Джакарта”
- Betawi: “Kota Bestir Jakarta Sintrem”
- Breton: “Jakarta kreiskêr”
- Catalan: “Jakarta Central”
- Cebuano: “Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat”
- Chinese: “Tiong Jakarta”
- Chinese: “中雅加达”
- Chinese: “中雅加达市”
- Chinese: “中雅加达行政区”
- Chinese: “中雅加达行政市”
- Chinese: “中雅加達”
- Chinese: “中雅加達市”
- Chinese: “中雅加達行政區”
- Chinese: “雅加達中區”
- Dutch: “Centraal-Jakarta”
- Dutch: “Jakarta Pusat”
- Esperanto: “Centra Ĝakarto”
- French: “Djakarta centre”
- French: “Jakarta centre”
- French: “Jakarta-Centre”
- German: “Zentral-Jakarta”
- German: “Zentraljakarta”
- Hebrew: “מרכז ג’קרטה”
- Indonesian: “Adm. Jakarta Pusat”
- Indonesian: “batavia centrum”
- Indonesian: “Jakarta Pusat”
- Indonesian: “jakpus”
- Indonesian: “Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat”
- Indonesian: “Kota Jakarta Pusat”
- Indonesian: “Kotamadya Jakarta Pusat”
- Indonesian: “Pusat”
- Italian: “Giacarta centrale”
- Italian: “Giacarta Centrale”
- Japanese: “中央ジャカルタ”
- Japanese: “中央ジャカルタ市”
- Javanese: “Kutha Administrasi Jakarta Pusat”
- Korean: “중부 자카르타”
- Korean: “중앙자카르타”
- Malagasy: “Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat”
- Malay: “Jakarta Pusat”
- Malayalam: “മദ്ധ്യ ജക്കാർത്ത”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong Jakarta”
- Persian: “جاکارتا مرکزی”
- Polish: “Dżakarta Centralna”
- Russian: “Центральная Джакарта”
- Slovenian: “Centralna Džakarta”
- Slovenian: “Jakarta Pusat”
- Slovenian: “Osrednja Džakarta”
- Spanish: “Yakarta Central”
- Sundanese: “Kota Jakarta Pusat”
- Swedish: “Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat”
- Tamil: “மத்திய ஜகார்த்தா”
- Ukrainian: “Центральна Джакарта”
- Urdu: “وسطی جکارتا”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Jakarta”
- “Jakarta Pusat”
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