Jakarta (idn)

Jakarta

Jakarta ranks 560th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Duisburg, Limoges, and York. Memorable people born in Jakarta include Prabowo Subianto, Anggun, and Hella Haasse. Memorable people who died in Jakarta include Sukarno, Suharto, and Abdurrahman Wahid. Jakarta has been the birth place of many actors, and badminton players and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Jakarta is located in Indonesia.

Jakarta, officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the de jure capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta is the largest metropole in Southeast Asia and serves as the diplomatic capital of ASEAN. The Special Capital Region has a status equivalent to that of a province and is bordered by two other provinces: West Java to the south and east; and Banten to the west. Its coastline faces the Java Sea to the north, and it shares a maritime border with Lampung to the west. Jakarta's metropolitan area is ASEAN's second largest economy after Singapore. In 2023, the city's GDP PPP was estimated at US$724.010 billion. Read more on Wikipedia