Richseen

TimeAll time Last 100 years Before 1926 Full timeline →

3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

city

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

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

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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865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on Earth

242

area: — A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.
point: — A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
soft: — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.
waypoint: — A stop on a route. A single point does not describe it.

In focus · 33

Outside the current lens or window · 209

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated