City of Palembang, Indonesia

Sumatra Selatan, Indonesia

Friday 29th June 2018

Palembang is the capital city of South Sumatra province of Indonesia. The city proper covers 369.22 square kilometres of land on both banks of lower Musi River on eastern lowland of southern Sumatra with an estimated population of 1,708,413 in 2014, making it the second most populous city on Sumatra after Medan, the ninth most populous city in Indonesia and the nineteenth most populous city in Southeast Asia. The metropolitan area of Greater Palembang also comprises part of regencies around the city such as Banyuasin, Ogan Ilir, and Ogan Komering Ilir, with total estimated population of more than 3.5 million in 2015