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...
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...
Indonesia sits on the infamous Pacific Ring of Fire, an area that experiences regular seismic activity, and the country has more than a hundred active volcanoes. This makes the island nation more susceptible to natural disasters, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis, than anywhere ...
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...
Total Area:735,358 sq. mi (1,904,569 sq. km) Coastline:33,999 miles (54,716 km) Bordering countries (3)Timor-Leste, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea Indonesia Bali Bali is a famous Indonesian island located in western Indonesia just a few miles east of Java. Bali covers approximately 2160 ...
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)....
Both a shrine to Lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage, Borobudur, on Java, comprises of six square platforms... View here Manggis, Bali Often referred to as 'old Bali', East Bali is a beautiful area brimming with some of Indonesia's finest temples, sweeping... View here...
, which functions as the city’s nucleus. the metropolitan area has extended in all directions from this central location, with the current city’s heart located to the north, distinguished by dutch colonial-era architecture and a vibrant commercial zone. the city’s tiny size of 32.82...
Area 102 square miles (265 square km). Pop. (2010) 2,097,610. Britannica Quiz Guess the City by Its River Quiz The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Ethan Teekah.North Sumatra ...
Area 37,461 square miles (97,024 square km). Pop. (2010 prelim.) 760,422. Geography Much of West Papua is under forest cover. Mangrove swamps abound in the lowland coastal areas, although in the deltaic regions sago palms, nipa palms, and pandanus swamps prevail. Trees of the wet, ...