South Jakarta

South Jakarta is one of the five administrative cities kota which form Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia. It had a populace of 2,057,080 at the 2010 Census, and is the third most populous some of the five towns of Jakarta, after East Jakarta and West Jakarta. The administrative centre is at Kebayoran Baru. South Jakarta is bounded through Central Jakarta to the north, East Jakarta to the east, Depok to the south, West Jakarta to the northwest, and Tangerang to the west.

Its contemporary name "Jakarta" derives from the phrase Jayakarta Devanagari: which is in the long run derived from Sanskrit language; jaya positive and krta accomplished, received, therefore Jayakarta interprets as triumphant deed, complete act or entire victory which literally, Jakarta way the "positive town". It changed into named after troops of Fatahillah efficaciously defeated and drove away Portuguese invaders from the city in 1527.

Before it become named "Jayakarta, the town changed into referred to as "Sunda Kelapa. In the colonial generation, the metropolis became also known as Koningin van het Oosten Queen of the Orient, to start with within the 17th century for the urban beauty of downtown Batavia's canals, mansions and ordered town layout. After increasing to the south in the 19th century, this nickname got here to be greater related to the suburbs e.g. Menteng and the vicinity around Merdeka Square, with their extensive lanes, inexperienced areas and villas.