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Jakarta
Old Batavia, Indonesia's capital.
- Population
- 11,010,514 (2025)
- Batavia
- 1619
- Independence
- August 17, 1945
Then
- 1527
Sunda Kelapa is taken and becomes Jayakarta.
- 1619
The Dutch East India Company destroys it and builds Batavia.
- 1945
Indonesia declares independence here.
Now
The government is moving the capital to Nusantara, partly because of land subsidence. NOAA lists this station as Djakarta, Java.