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Pulau Indah ("Beautiful Island", [1] formerly known as Pulau Lumut) is an island in Klang District, Selangor, Malaysia with a population of around 20,000 people overall. Malaysia's largest port, West Port , Port Klang , is on the island.
The discovery of the Natuna Islands by I-Tsing (or Yijing) has been disputed by some historians, who point to errors in interpreting his historical records.Although I-Tsing, a Buddhist monk from the Tang Dynasty, recorded his extensive travels through Southeast Asia and India, there is no strong evidence in his records that explicitly mentions the Natuna Islands.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [c] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [d] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [13]
Bontang is a city on the eastern coast of the island of Borneo in Indonesia, in the province of East Kalimantan.It occupies an area of 161.88 km 2 (62.50 sq mi), and the population was 140,787 at the 2010 census, [6] and 178,917 at the 2020 census; [7] the official estimate as of mid-2023 was 189,968 (comprising 98,222 males and 91,746 females). [4]
Sumba (Petjo: Soemba-eiland; Indonesian: pulau Sumba), natively also spelt as Humba, Hubba, Suba, or Zuba (in Sumba languages) is an Indonesian island (part of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago group) located in the Eastern Indonesia and administratively part of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial territory.
Kutai Kartanegara Regency (abbreviated as Kukar) is a regency of East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia.It has a land area of 27,263.10 km 2 and a water area of 4,097 km 2, geographically located between 1°18′40″S and 116°31′36″E.
The term Nusantara derives from a combined two words of Austronesian and Sanskrit origin, the word nūsa (see also nusa) meaning "island" in Old Javanese, is ultimately derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word *nusa with the same meaning, [12] and the word antara is a Javanese loanword borrowed from Sanskrit अन्तरा (antarā) meaning "between" or "in the middle", [13] thus ...
Puncak Jaya, at 4,884 metres (16,024 ft), is Indonesia's highest peak, while Lake Toba in Sumatra, covering 1,145 km 2 (442 sq mi), is the largest lake. The country's major rivers, primarily in Kalimantan and New Guinea, include the Kapuas , Barito , Mamberamo , Sepik and Mahakam , serving as vital transportation and communication routes for ...