Jakarta in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🛶

The Dutch built canals here to make it look like home, and they silted up and bred malaria instead.

🌆

The metropolitan area holds over thirty million, which puts it among the largest on earth.

🏞️

The Thousand Islands are a chain of small coral islands in the bay, reached in about an hour by boat.

🍜

Soto Betawi is the local soup, made with beef and coconut milk rather than the clearer broths elsewhere.

⚓

Wooden pinisi schooners still load cargo by hand at Sunda Kelapa, the old harbour.

Jakarta at a glance

Country

Indonesia

Coordinates

6.21° S, 106.85° E

First played

17 June 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Jakarta.