Geography Atlas

Where Everything Happened
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Switch Atlas

City

Pontianak

South-eastern Asia

Pontianak is a city in the province of West Kalimantan in Indonesia. Indonesia treats it as a city (kota) at the regency level, and the figures compiled by City Population count 658,685 inhabitants at the 2020 census, against 554,764 at the 2010 census. GeoNames places Pontianak at latitude -0.03194 and longitude 109.32500, about 2 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, in the Asia/Pontianak time zone of the IANA database, which is UTC+7. GeoNames records Pontianak as the seat of a first-order administrative division, which makes it the provincial capital of West Kalimantan. GeoNames carries its own population figure of 686,019. The atlas places it in the South-eastern Asia subregion of Asia.

Facts
Population
658,685 1
Population
686,019 2
Population Estimate Year
2020 1
Elevation (m)
2 2
Latitude
0.03194 degrees south 2
Longitude
109.325 degrees east 2
Elevation Band
Sea Level 2
Climate Zone
Tropical 3
Time Zone
UTC+07:00 2
Connections

Capital Of

West Kalimantan, States or Territories
Source GeoNames: Pontianak
In the Other Atlases

Same As

Pontianak

Also in Divinity Atlas: the same subject.

Sources
1. citypopulation.de: Indonesia: Administrative Division
citypopulation.de
  • Cities table, census of 2020-09-15
    Kota Pontianak City 501,843 554,764 606,721 658,685
  • Cities table, census column 2020-09-15
    Kota Pontianak City 501,843 554,764 606,721 658,685
View the Source
2. GeoNames: Pontianak
  • GeoNames page, Population
    Population 686,019
  • GeoNames page, elevation, banded by atlas thresholds
    SRTM3 2 m
  • GeoNames page, Timezone
    Timezone Asia/Pontianak
  • Coordinates
    Coordinates -0.03194, 109.32500
  • Elevation
    SRTM3 2 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: West Kalimantan, GeoNames hierarchy and feature code
    Feature code P PPLA
View the Source
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
-0.25 109.25 Af
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.