It’s pretty subjective but one that is often underappreciated is Jakarta, as it is absolutely enormous:
The greater Jakarta metro area has 42 million people, which puts it as the most populous capital in the world (it recently passed Tokyo for this title in 2025).
It’s definitely on my list of cities to visit.
1 – Basically, a princess:
2 – Sialia currucoides, the mountain bluebird:
3 – Podargus strigoides and its little baby, which looks like a little doll:
4 – Ceyx melanurus, a species of bird in the Alcedinidae family found in the southern Philippines:
5 – Goura cristata, an imposing and majestic bird:
6 – Red Bengali, which looks like a strawberry:
7 – Panurus biarmicus, a little bird that looks like it’s wearing a mask:
8 – Grandala coelicolor, which doesn’t even look real:
9 – Bombycilla garrulus, a bird the size of a starling, basically:
10 – A beautiful Cyornis rubeculoides, photographed in India: