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Jakarta
[ juh-kahr-tuh ]
noun
- a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the northwestern coast of Java.
Jakarta
/ »åÏôəˈ°ìɑ˳ÙÉ™ /
noun
- the capital of Indonesia, in N West Java: founded in 1619 and ruled by the Dutch until 1945; the chief trading centre of the East in the 17th century; University of Indonesia (1947). Pop: 8Â 347Â 083 (2000) Former name (until 1949)Batavia Former spellingDjakarta
Example Sentences
At age 36, she won a prestigious Fulbright grant to teach for a year in Jakarta, Indonesia.
All the world’s wildfire-prone cities, including Los Angeles, Lisbon, Cape Town, Athens, Jakarta and Melbourne, can share information, expertise and practices to learn from one another.
The 61-year-old will be handed over to French police at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, before boarding a commercial flight to Paris.
Low-lying farm fields, factories, homes, and large swaths of cities including New Orleans, Miami, Jakarta, and Mumbai will mostly vanish beneath the waves unless we spend even more building barricades to keep the ocean out.
After the executions, Australia recalled its ambassador to Indonesia, although he returned to Jakarta five weeks later.
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