Indonesia is about 2,648 times bigger than Singapore. Singapore is approximately 719 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 264,718% larger than Singapore. Meanwhile, the population of Singapore is ~6.2 million people (260.8 million more people live in Indonesia).

Metro Manila is divided into multiple cities with population of 11 million people and an area covering 611.39 km. While Jakarta is a city of 9 million people that are divided into several sub-division, and covered an area of 661.5 km, slightly bigger than Manila.

Bangkok vs Ho Chi Minh City – population size and other comparisons. Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City are two of the largest cities in Southeast Asia (the largest being Jakarta). It was recently reported that Saigon now has up to 13 million people living in the city.

In terms of land area on a map, Bangkok is almost 2.5 times the size of Manila. It’s truly vast: at 606 square miles, Bangkok covers even more territory than Los Angeles. The City of Manila proper is surprisingly small, so the whole Metro Manila region is a better comparison.

Without rent, the total cost of living is estimated at P28,800 a month in Manila. The research noted that Manila’s cost of living stood 33 percent higher than the cost in Kuala Lumpur, 28 percent higher than the cost in Vietnam and 24 percent higher than in Jakarta.

AirVisual last year named Jakarta the most polluted city in Southeast Asia, ahead of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and the world’s 10th most polluted capital, faring slightly better than Beijing and Kathmandu. According to AirVisual, Jakarta could soon be on par with China’s smog-choked cities, where average PM2.

Overall it is quite safe to walk around in Jakarta at night. However you have to be aware that the safety level would be different from one location to another, or at a different time span. I would prefer to walk aroud at night in Jakarta before 10pm.

Casual wear, shorts to the knee, short-sleeve shirts (singlets excepted), sandals etc are all fine during the day. For nicer restaurants, wear long pants; women, skirts or dresses. For clubs, dress to impress the door staff; those in shorts, trainers and flip flops will probably be turned away.

The tap water in Jakarta, Indonesia, is not safe to drink. But other inhabitants do drink the tap water after boiling. Tap water in Indonesia is not suitable for direct drinking, including hotels tap. You can use water for washing and showers.

Mercury, lead, copper, chromium, cadmium, and aluminum all pollute tap water. If taken excessively for a long time, these heavy metals found in tap water can harm your health. Aluminum, for example, can increase risks of the following health conditions: brain deformities.

Your bathroom tap water is perfectly fine to brush your teeth and to wash up. As long as you’re not swallowing the water, you’re unlikely to get lead poisoning. And if you’re likely to get thirsty in the night, bring a glass or bottle of kitchen tap water with you to bed.

Tap water is safe and healthy to drink, as long as you use the right water filter at home. As for tap water, to be drinkable, it goes through a complex system of filtration and disinfection before reaching your tap. However, even with that system, microplastics and some pathogens can go through.

This is perfectly safe to drink, it often has similar levels of calcium and magnesium to expensive mineral water. In areas such as London, water softening can lead to levels of sodium which may be unhealthy to drink. In areas where the water is very hard, the kitchen sink tap is often left unsoftened.