Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia,
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 kilometer’s (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, the world’s most populous
island, is home to more than half of the country’s population.
Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature.
It has 38 provinces, of which nine have special autonomous status.
The country’s largest city, Jakarta, is the world’s second-most-populous
urban area. Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East
Timor, and the eastern part of Malaysia, as well as maritime borders
with Singapore, Peninsula Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines,
Australia, Palau, and India. Despite its large population and densely
populated regions, Indonesia has vast areas of wilderness that support
one of the world’s highest levels of biodiversity.
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