Papua New Guinea, with which it shares an island. The country has a total land area of 1,919,440 square kilometers (741,096 square miles), or about 3 times the size of Texas. An additional 3.2 million square kilometers (1,235,520 square miles) of ocean is within Indonesia's borders...
Total Area: 735,358 square miles (1,904,569 square kilometers) Highest Point: Puncak Jaya at 16,024 feet (4,884 meters) Lowest Point: Indian Ocean at 0 feet (0 meters) History Indonesia has a long history that began with organized civilizations on the islands of Java and Sumatra. A B...
40% of the country’s population had moved to an urban area andJakarta—Indonesia’s largest city—has reached a population density of 14,400 people per square kilometer. In contrast, the country’s allover population density was around 151 people per square kilometer. The country currently has...
The island of Bali has an area of only 5,632 square kilometers (2,175 square miles) and measures just 55 miles (90 kilometers) along the north-south axis and less than about 90 miles (140 kilometers) from East to West. Because of this it's no problem to explore the island on ...
As with everywhere in Southeast Asia, be extremely careful when consuming spirits as incidents of methanol poisoning have been known. Natural Disasters Indonesia sits on the infamous Pacific Ring of Fire, an area that experiences regular seismic activity, and the country has more than a hundred ...
The archipelago extends some 3000 miles from Aceh on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra in the west to the border of Irian Barat with Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea in the east. Its land area covers some 1.9 million square kilometers. Land and sea area combined ...
The island of Bali has an area of only 5,632 square kilometers (2,175 square miles) and measures just 55 miles (90 kilometers) along the north-south axis and less than about 90 miles (140 kilometers) from East to West. Because of this it's no problem to explore the island on day...
Java, one of the world's most densely settled places (with 2,108 people per square mile [814 per square kilometer] in 1990), occupies 78 percent of the nation's land area but accounts for about 60 percent of Indonesia's population. (About the size of New York state, Java's ...
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 island country and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles)....
best known for its extraordinary muck diving. North Sulawesi is a mecca for sheer walls and trenches, stunning coral environments, and an array of bountiful sea life that’s on offer every time you take advantage of the area’s renowned critter dives. Off the south-eastern tip of Sulawesi ...