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Cirebon

Cirebon is located in the northeast of West Jawa Province, on the north coast Jawa Island, Indonesia. Its metropolitan population is between 1.864 and 2.366 million,1 with 298 thousand in the city limits.2 The tallest building as of late 2017 is the Apita Tower (14 stories, 184 feet, 2011).3

Historical maps

map of Jawa, Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) islands, and islands controlled by Jawa's provinces, 2000 CE, with Cirebon

External references

Cirebon skyline, West Jawa Province, Jawa island, Indonesia

Footnotes

1. The lower figure is the 2012 figure from world-gazetteer.com, accessed February 6, 2013. The higher figure is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Indonesia, citing the 2010 census and accessed February 14, 2017. The difference can reasonably be assumed to be caused by what settled areas are included.
2. City populations are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Indonesia, accessed February 14, 2017.
3. Emporis.com, accessed November 13, 2017.