8 Billion Lives

Indonesia · South Sumatra

Born in Palembang

Palembang is home to 1.8 million people in South Sumatra. It is the number 8 city in Indonesia by population. Sourced: GeoNames

Among the largest cities in Indonesia

Jakarta8.5 million
Surabaya3.0 million
Bekasi2.6 million
Bandung2.5 million
Medan2.5 million
Depok2.2 million
Tangerang1.9 million
Palembang1.8 million

Sourced: GeoNames Population. Palembang is highlighted.

Indonesia as a whole

  • Life expectancy at birth: 69.0 years for boys, 73.3 for girls Sourced: UN WPP 2024
  • Children who die before age 5: 20.5 in every 1,000 births Sourced: UN WPP 2024

These are national figures: the game does not have separate health figures for Palembang. More about Indonesia

Live a life in Palembang

Choose Palembang and you are born there, to a family drawn from the real mix of the place. Then you live it year by year, with a few choices that bend the odds. About an hour, and every life replays exactly from its seed.

Be born in Palembang

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