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Close ✕Jakarta
Indonesia's capital and, under the Degree of Urbanisation method adopted in World Urbanization Prospects 2025, the world's most populous city at close to 42 million people — a ranking that…
-6.2, 106.8 · approximate · settled from the 4th century; capital from 1949; subsidence measured from the 1980s
On the world
- A place in: Future Cities · 14 places
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Connections
- instance of Degree of Urbanisation — Jakarta's move from 33rd to first among the world's largest cities followed from the change of delineation method, not from migration.
- is affects of Urban land subsidence — Ground level across Jakarta is falling by centimetres a year, faster in the north than global sea level is rising.
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