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Pekanbaru

South-eastern Asia

Pekanbaru is a city in the province of Riau in Indonesia. Indonesia treats it as a city (kota) at the regency level, and the figures compiled by City Population count 983,356 inhabitants at the 2020 census, against 897,767 at the 2010 census. GeoNames places Pekanbaru at latitude 0.51667 and longitude 101.44167, about 19 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, in the Asia/Jakarta time zone of the IANA database, which is UTC+7. GeoNames records Pekanbaru as the seat of a first-order administrative division, which makes it the provincial capital of Riau. GeoNames carries its own population figure of 1,167,599. The atlas places it in the South-eastern Asia subregion of Asia.

Facts
Population
1,167,599 1
Population
983,356 2
Population Estimate Year
2020 2
Elevation (m)
19 1
Latitude
0.51667 degrees north 1
Longitude
101.44167 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Sea Level 1
Climate Zone
Tropical 3
Time Zone
UTC+07:00 1
Connections

Capital Of

Riau, States or Territories
Source GeoNames: Pekanbaru
Sources
1. GeoNames: Pekanbaru
  • GeoNames page, Population
    Population 1,167,599
  • GeoNames page, elevation, banded by atlas thresholds
    SRTM3 19 m
  • GeoNames page, Timezone
    Timezone Asia/Jakarta
  • Coordinates
    Coordinates 0.51667, 101.44167
  • Elevation
    SRTM3 19 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: Riau, GeoNames hierarchy and 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 Pekanbaru City 717,618 897,767 1,035,834 983,356
  • Cities table, census column 2020-09-15
    Kota Pekanbaru City 717,618 897,767 1,035,834 983,356
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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
0.75 101.25 Af
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