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Indonesia has total land area of 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 sq mi), including 93,000 square kilometres (35,908 sq mi) of inland seas (straits, bays, and other bodies of water). This makes it the largest island country in the world. [2] The additional surrounding sea areas bring Indonesia's generally recognised territory (land and sea) to about 5 million km 2. The government claims an ...
Indonesia, [b] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [c] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles). With ...
This list of Indonesian islands by area includes all Indonesian islands over 500 km 2 in descending order by area.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles). With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country.
Java was formed by volcanic eruptions due to geologic subduction of the Australian Plate under the Sunda Plate. It is the 13th largest island in the world and the fifth largest in Indonesia by landmass, at about 132,011.65 square kilometres (50,969.98 sq mi) (including Madura 's 5,408.45 square kilometres (2,088.21 sq mi)).
Borneo (/ ˈbɔːrnioʊ /; 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 Sumatra.
An enlargeable topographic map of the island of Java, the most populous island on Earth. Indonesia is: an equatorial megadiverse island country. Location: Eastern Hemisphere, on the Equator. Eurasia (though not on the mainland) Asia.
The Indonesian archipelago (Indonesian: Kepulauan Indonesia) is a vast and diverse collection of over 17,000 to 18,000 islands [3][4] located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans in Southeast Asia and Oceania. [5] It is the world's largest archipelago, with five main islands— Sumatra, Java, Borneo (shared with Malaysia and Brunei), Sulawesi ...