Pekalongan

Pekalongan is a region of Central Java in Indonesia.

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Tegal

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Tegal is a city in the northwest part of the province of Central Java, Indonesia. It is situated on the north coast of Central Java, about 175 km from Semarang, the capital of the province.

Pekalongan

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Pekalongan is a city of Central Java, Indonesia. It was formerly the seat of Pekalongan Regency on the northern coast of the province, but is now an independent municipality within the province.

Mount Slamet is an active stratovolcano that summits in the Pemalang Regency of Central Java, Indonesia. It has a cluster of around three dozen cinder cones on the lower southeast and northeast flanks and a single cinder cone on the western flank.

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Pemalang

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Pemalang Regency is a regency on the north coast of Central Java province in Indonesia. Its capital is the town of Pemalang. The regency is bordered by the Java Sea to the north, by Pekalongan Regency to the east, by Purbalingga Regency to the south, and by Tegal Regency to the west.

Brebes

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Brebes is a regency in the northwestern part of Central Java province in Indonesia. It covers an area of 1,769.62 km2, and it had a population of 1,733,869 at the 2010 Census and 1,978,759 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of the end of 2025 was 2,087,331.

Batang

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Batang is a regency on the north coast of Central Java province in Indonesia. It was created on 14 June 1965 from what was previously the eastern half of Pekalongan Regency.

Kajen

Kajen is an administrative district and a town in Central Java Province of Indonesia, and is the administrative centre of the Pekalongan Regency in that province.

Pekalongan

Type: Residency
Description: Dutch East Indies administrative division in Java
Also known as: “Pakalongan Residency” and “Pekalongan Residency”
Location: Central Java, Java, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center

-7.0925° or 7° 5′ 33″ south

Longitude of center

109.67° or 109° 40′ 12″ east

Wikidata ID

Q12489638

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Indonesian—“Pekalongan” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Residentie Pakalongan”
Dutch: “Residentie Pekalongan”
Indonesian: “Keresidenan Pakalongan”
Indonesian: “Keresidenan Pekalongan”
Indonesian: “Pekalongan”

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