Depok

Geographical unit

Depok is a city in the Indonesian province of West Java on the island of Java. The city has an area of ​​200.29 km ² and in 2005 had about 1,400,000 inhabitants. Depok is part of the Jabotabek metropolitan area, which has formed around the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

Structure

Depok consists of the six sub-districts:

• Beji,
• Cimanggis,

• Limo,
• Pancoran Mas,

• Sawangan and
• Sukmajaya.

Topography

The landscape of Depok distinguished from south to north is as lowland area with weakly undulating hills between 50 and 140 meters above sea level of. Depok is drained by large rivers Ciliwung and Cisadane and 13 other small streams. There are 25 lakes ( 169.68 ha) with poor water quality. Again and again there are flooding problems, especially in areas that are drained by the Angke, Ciliwung, Pesanggrahan and Cikeas.

Population

Within 5 years, in the period from 2000-2005, the population increased by nearly 448,000 residents in Depok. In 1999, the population was still less than 1 million, by 2005 they had recorded 1,374,522 people. The increase is due to the high migration rate. By 2010, an estimated total population of 1.61 million people were expected. Then the population density of 7877 inhabitants per km ² would be.

Education

Depok is one of the two locations of the Universitas Indonesia. The Universitas Gunadarma located in Depok.