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Nusantara (Indonesian pronunciation: [nusanˈtara] ⓘ), officially the Capital City of Nusantara (Indonesian: Ibu Kota Nusantara, abbreviated IKN), is the future capital of Indonesia, located between Kutai Kartanegara Regency and Penajam North Paser Regency, East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. [1][2][3] Nusantara is planned to be a ...
1,992,000. Although Semarang metropolitan area is the fourth most populous in Indonesia, it actually comprises a significant portion of rural areas. Semarang's urban population is much smaller than Medan. 6. Makassar. 178. 1,952,000. Makassar is the largest urban area outside of Java and Sumatra. The urban area is known as Makassar metropolitan ...
Jakarta. Jakarta[c] (/ dʒəˈkɑːrtə /; Indonesian pronunciation: [dʒaˈkarta] ⓘ, Betawi: Jakartè), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta[12] (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, abbreviated to DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia.
It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles). With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the ...
Kota Tua Jakarta (Indonesian for "Jakarta Old Town"), officially known as Kota Tua, [1] is a neighborhood comprising the original downtown area of Jakarta, Indonesia. It is also known as Oud Batavia ( Dutch for "Old Batavia"), Benedenstad ("Lower City", contrasting it with Weltevreden , de Bovenstad ("Upper City")), or Kota Lama (Indonesian for ...
Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4] Each sheet measures 33×40 cm and, with a border of 2 cm, the complete map measures 202×124 cm. All sheets span a longitude of 60 degrees; the ...
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting. [6][7]