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Geography of Indonesia. Indonesia is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia and Oceania, lying between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is located in a strategic location astride or along major sea lanes connecting East Asia, South Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. [2]
The boundaries on the 1979 map are not recognised by Indonesia nor Singapore. The map also does not show the western Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore tripoint, which should be located in this area. Indonesia and Singapore signed an agreement in 2009, extending their defined common boundary to a point where the two countries claim was as far ...
A map of ethnic groups in Indonesia. Indonesia is an ethnically diverse country, with around 1,300 distinct native ethnic groups. [2] Most Indonesians are descended from Austronesian peoples whose languages had origins in Proto-Austronesian, which possibly originated in what is now Taiwan.
Java, formerly Jawa Dwipa. Sumatra, formerly Swarna Dwipa. Borneo: divided between the Indonesian region Kalimantan, the country of Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. Sulawesi, formerly Celebes. Lesser Sunda Islands. Bali. Lombok. Sumbawa. Flores.
This is a list of some of the regions of Indonesia.Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. At different times of Indonesia's history, the nation has been designated as having regions that do not necessarily correlate to the current administrative or physical geography of the territory of the nation.
Borneo (/ ˈ b ɔːr n i oʊ /; also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 748,168 km 2 (288,869 sq mi). ). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of
An enlargeable relief map of Indonesia. Pronunciation: / ˌ ɪ n d ə ˈ n iː ʒ ə,-z i ə,-ʃ ə / [2] [3] Common English country name: Indonesia; Official English country name: The Republic of Indonesia; Common endonym(s): Indonesia; Official endonym(s): Republik Indonesia; Adjectival(s): Indonesian; Etymology: Names of Indonesia ...
Relief map of Southeast Asia. Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia and is also the largest archipelago in the world by size (according to the CIA World Factbook). Geologically, the Indonesian Archipelago is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world.