Population Profile

Yogyakarta has about 3,2 milion inhabitants in an area of 3,185 km2, making it one of the most densely populated provinces in Indonesia, with an average of 1,000 inhabitants per sequare kilometer. The city itself and its suburban settle ments are home to some 600,000 people with a population density of almost 15,000 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The majority of Yogya’s inhabitants are native javanese. Only in the crowded center of Yogya are there significant numbers of Indonesians from other parts of the archipelago, mostly students. Yogya is known as Indonesia’s education city due to its pleathora of universities, research centers and higher education intitutes, which lend a perpetually youthfull air to the city. There is also a large number in the province ,mostly involved in business or trade, or studying Javanese culture and pervorming arts.