Jepara
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Jepara is a town in the province of Central Java, Indonesia. Jepara is on the north coast of Java, northeast of Semarang, not far from Mount Muria, with a population of 81,920 in mid-2022.[1] It is also the main town of Jepara Regency. Jepara is known for the Javanese teak wood carving art as well as the birthplace of Kartini, a pioneer in the area of women's rights for Indonesians.
Demographics
The population of Jepara Regency is approximately 1.2 million people, 49.86% male and 50.14% female. On the productivity age basis, the considered working-group age (between 15 and 64 yo) dominates Jepara's population at 67.90%, meanwhile the rest of 25.55% and 6.55% belong to the children and retired-people groups, respectively.
Jepara people are originally rooted as
The village of Plajan and the village of Tempur have a comparatively multi-religious population.[2]
Economy
Jepara is known for its furniture industry, notably the teak furniture. The trade has brought considerable prosperity to Jepara, well above the average for Central Java. Since there is a large export trade, the fall in the value of the
History
In the 16th century, Jepara was an important port; in early 1513, its king,
It was the site of an English fort in the 17th century. It is the birthplace of Indonesian national heroine Kartini.[4]
Contemporary Jepara
The population is almost entirely
Climate
Jepara has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with moderate to little rainfall from May to October and heavy to very heavy rainfall from November to April.
Climate data for Jepara | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.6 (87.1) |
30.5 (86.9) |
30.9 (87.6) |
31.8 (89.2) |
31.9 (89.4) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.3 (91.9) |
34.2 (93.6) |
34.2 (93.6) |
33.1 (91.6) |
31.7 (89.1) |
32.2 (90.0) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.4 (79.5) |
26.4 (79.5) |
26.5 (79.7) |
27.2 (81.0) |
27.1 (80.8) |
26.8 (80.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
26.9 (80.4) |
27.7 (81.9) |
28.2 (82.8) |
27.8 (82.0) |
26.9 (80.4) |
27.0 (80.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.2 (72.0) |
22.3 (72.1) |
22.2 (72.0) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.4 (72.3) |
21.5 (70.7) |
20.6 (69.1) |
20.6 (69.1) |
21.3 (70.3) |
22.2 (72.0) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.2 (72.0) |
21.9 (71.4) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 646 (25.4) |
481 (18.9) |
363 (14.3) |
180 (7.1) |
103 (4.1) |
55 (2.2) |
27 (1.1) |
20 (0.8) |
41 (1.6) |
86 (3.4) |
199 (7.8) |
442 (17.4) |
2,643 (104.1) |
Source: Climate-Data.org[5] |
Kingdoms
- Kalingga Kingdom
- Kalinyamat Kingdom
Gallery
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Mosque in Jepara, Pati Regency
Notes
- ^ a b Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2023.
- ^ "Central Java Village Shows That Unity in Diversity Is Possible." Jakarta Globe. Retrieved on August 26, 2015.
- ISBN 0-333-57689-6.
- ^ Taylor, Jean Stewart (1976). Raden Ajeng Kartini. pp. 639–661.
- ^ "Climate: Jepara". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
References
- Witton, Patrick (2003). Indonesia (7th ed.). Melbourne: Lonely Planet. pp. 259–260. ISBN 1-74059-154-2.
- Blie.Info Places To Go in Jepara