This page is about the capital city of Indonesia. For The Apache Jakarta project, see
Jakarta Project. Jakarta (also DKI Jakarta), formerly known as Sunda Kalapa, Jayakarta, Batavia and Djakarta is the
capital and largest city of
Indonesia. Located on the northwest coast of the
Java Island, it has an area of 661.52 km² and an official population of 8,792,000 (
2004). Jakarta currently is the eleventh largest city, fifth largest metropolitan area and ninth
most densely populated city in the world with 44,283 people per sq mile. Its
metropolitan area is called
Jabodetabek and contains more than 23 million people, and is part of an even larger Jakarta-
Bandung megalopolis.
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