Petarukan is an administrative

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(''kecamatan'') in

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Province,

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. It lies immediately to the east of the highly urbanised Pemalang-Taman area. Petarukan District contains the urban village (''kelurahan'') of Petarukan and 19 rural villages (''desa'').

Geography

Petarukan is located on the northern coast of the

Java Sea The Java Sea (, ) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. Karimata Strait to its northwest links it to the South Ch ...

with an altitude of 0 – 7 m. The boundaries of the District of Petarukan, Pemalang are as follows :

Geography

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