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Sorong

South-eastern Asia

Sorong is a city in the province of Southwest Papua in Indonesia. Indonesia treats it as a city (kota) at the regency level, and the figures compiled by City Population count 284,410 inhabitants at the 2020 census, against 190,625 at the 2010 census. GeoNames places Sorong at latitude -0.87956 and longitude 131.26104, about 7 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, in the Asia/Jayapura time zone of the IANA database, which is UTC+9. GeoNames records Sorong as the seat of a first-order administrative division, which makes it the provincial capital of Southwest Papua. GeoNames carries its own population figure of 219,958. The atlas places it in the South-eastern Asia subregion of Asia.

Facts
Population
219,958 1
Population
284,410 2
Population Estimate Year
2020 2
Elevation (m)
7 1
Latitude
0.87956 degrees south 1
Longitude
131.26104 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Sea Level 1
Climate Zone
Tropical 3
Time Zone
UTC+09:00 1
Connections

Capital Of

Southwest Papua, States or Territories
Source GeoNames: Sorong
Sources
1. GeoNames: Sorong
  • GeoNames page, Population
    Population 219,958
  • GeoNames page, elevation, banded by atlas thresholds
    SRTM3 7 m
  • GeoNames page, Timezone
    Timezone Asia/Jayapura
  • Coordinates
    Coordinates -0.87956, 131.26104
  • Elevation
    SRTM3 7 m
  • Part Of: Indonesia, GeoNames hierarchy line
    Indonesia ID Country
  • On Continent: Asia, GeoNames hierarchy line
    Asia › Indonesia ID
  • In Group: Cities of South-eastern Asia (World), GeoNames hierarchy line
    Indonesia ID Country
  • Capital Of: Southwest Papua, Feature code
    Feature code P PPLA
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2. citypopulation.de: Indonesia: Administrative Division
citypopulation.de
  • Cities table, census of 2020-09-15
    Kota Sorong City 146,390 190,625 225,022 284,410
  • Cities table, census column 2020-09-15
    Kota Sorong City 146,390 190,625 225,022 284,410
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3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell
-0.75 131.25 Af
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