Republic of Indonesia
is
the largest island and nation in Southeast Asia, which is most of the
Malay Archipelago and included all the former Dutch East Indies. Indonesia consists of 13,677 islands cleaved equator, 6,000 of which are inhabited. From
the most western part of the island of Sumatra and Papua New Guinea to
the east, Indonesia spans over some 5,150 km (3,200 miles) from the sea,
or nearly one eighth of the circumference of the earth; the north-south Indonesia is about 1,931 km (1,200 miles). Borneo island is divided with Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam; Borneo (Kalimantan), at an estimated 75 percent of islands in Indonesia, is called Kalimantan.The
western part of the State of New Guinea is the Indonesian province of
Irian Jaya (formerly the West Irian), the eastern part of Papua New
Guinea. Kalimantan
and Irian Jaya, together with Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi is the largest
island in Indonesia and, together with the provinces of Kalimantan and
Irian Jaya, reaching about 95 percent of its land area. Small islands, including Madura, Timor, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Bali is dominated is a part of the island group. Maluku and Sunda Islands are the largest island group.Indonesia
maritime border, including the South China Sea, the Sulawesi Sea and
the Pacific Ocean in the north, and the Indian Ocean in the south and
west. Indonesia has a land area of 1,904,443 square kilometers (735,310 sq mi). that once capital and largest city is Jakarta.
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