Indonesia map Unitary Republic of Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world located in South East Asia, across the equator between Asia and Australia and between the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Because it lies between two continents and two oceans, he also called Nusantara (Archipelago Between). Indonesia is bordered by Malaysia on the island of Borneo, bordering with Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea and is bordered by East Timor on the island of Timor.
The word "Indonesia" comes from two Greek words, namely Indos meaning "India" and nesos which means "island". So says India Indonesia means islands, or islands in the Indian territory.
Indonesia has 17,504 large and small islands (see also: the number of islands in Indonesia), about 6000 of them uninhabited, which spread around the equator, giving the tropical weather. Indonesia's position is located at coordinates 6 ° N - 11 ° 08'LS and from 97 ° - 141 ° 45'BT and is located between two continents, Asia and the continent of Australia / Oceania. Indonesian territory extends along 3.977 mile between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. When the waters between the islands combined, the area of Indonesia to 1.9 million sq mi. The island is densely populated island of Java, where half the population of Indonesia live. Indonesia consists of 5 major islands, namely: Java with an area of 132,107 km ², Sumatra, with an area 473,606 km ², Borneo with an area of 539.460 km ², Sulawesi, with an area 189,216 km ², and Papua with an area of 421.981 km ².
Location is also located in Indonesia tectonic plates means Indonesia is frequently hit by earthquakes and also caused a tsunami. Indonesia also has many volcanoes, one of the most famous is Mount Krakatoa, located between the islands of Sumatra and Java.
Indonesian population can be divided roughly into two groups. Indonesia in the western part of the population are ethnic Malays mostly in the east while the tribe of Papua, which has its roots in the islands of Melanesia. Many people who claim to Indonesia as part of a group of more specific interest, which is divided by language and region of origin, such as Javanese, Sundanese, or Batak.
There was also a number of new settlers are ethnic minority Indonesians, Indians, and Arabs. They have long come to the archipelago with trade routes since the 8th century BC and settled into a part of the archipelago. In Indonesia there are about 3% of the population of ethnic Tionghoa. These numbers differ because only in the 1930s was the last time the government did with the census to classify people in Indonesia to the tribe and their descendants.
Islam is a religion embraced by the majority of which approximately 85.2% of the population of Indonesia, making Indonesia the country with the largest Muslim population in the world. The remaining Protestant (8.9%), Catholic (3%), Hindu (1.8%), Buddhists (0.8%), and others (0.3%).
Most people in Indonesia speak the local language as mother tongue, but the official language of Indonesia, the Indonesian language, is taught in all schools in this country and controlled by almost the entire population of Indonesia.
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