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Provincial capitals of Indonesia

38 provincial capitals, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The provincial capitals

  1. 1Jakarta29.8 M
  2. 2Bandung7.1 M
  3. 3Surabaya6 M
  4. 4Medan4.3 M
  5. 5Semarang2.2 M
  6. 6Makassar1.8 M
  7. 7Palembang1.8 M
  8. 8Yogyakarta1.8 M
  9. 9Bandar Lampung1.5 M
  10. 10Denpasar1.3 M
  11. 11Serang1.3 M
  12. 12Pekanbaru1.1 M
  13. 13Jambi946 k
  14. 14Padang909 k
  15. 15Pontianak839 k
  16. 16Samarinda831 k
  17. 17Ambon559 k
  18. 18Kupang530 k
  19. 19Gorontalo504 k
  20. 20Manado483 k
  21. 21Kendari415 k
  22. 22Bengkulu410 k
  23. 23Mataram409 k
  24. 24Banda Aceh361 k
  25. 25Palu352 k
  26. 26Sorong301 k
  27. 27Pangkal Pinang290 k
  28. 28Merauke270 k
  29. 29Banjarbaru222 k
  30. 30Nabire207 k
  31. 31Manokwari199 k
  32. 32Jayapura162 k
  33. 33Tanjung Pinang147 k
  34. 34Mamuju144 k
  35. 35Palangkaraya100 k
  36. 36Wamena88 k
  37. 37Tanjung Selor59 k
  38. 38Sofifi28 k

Capitals of first-level administrative units (states, provinces, regions): the capital Wikidata records for the unit (P36), else the seat GeoNames records for it (PPLA); a second, summer or winter capital is left out. A national capital is in only where it is also its unit’s seat (Canberra for the Australian Capital Territory, Brasília for the Federal District), not where the unit has another capital (Ottawa: Toronto; Amsterdam: Haarlem). Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; a smaller city ranks by its GHSL urban centre (2025), or by its city-proper figure where GHSL’s centre is far larger than the list allows. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Thomas Brinkhoff: Major Agglomerations of the World, citypopulation.de, Wikidata names and capitals (CC0).

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Map of Provincial capitals of Indonesia, 38 provincial capitals: each one marked on the globe

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