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Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 101 %. Geographic limits of the map: N: 4.5° S; S: 10.7° S; W: 104.8° E; E: 116.5° E; Date: 7 February 2011: Source: Own work, using United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data; World Data Base II data; Author: NordNordWest: Permission (Reusing this file)
Java [a] is one of the islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 153.8 million people, Java is the world's most populous island, home to approximately 54% of the Indonesian population. [2] Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta, is on Java's northwestern coast.
The islands of Indonesia, also known as the Indonesian Archipelago (Kepulauan Indonesia) or Nusantara, may refer either to the islands composing the country of Indonesia or to the geographical groups which include its islands. [3] Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state, stretching from Sumatra in Asia to the western part of New ...
Sumatra Island – also spelled Sumatera, the sixth largest island in the world, largest island entirely in Indonesia; Borneo Island – known locally as Kalimantan, the third largest island in the world; New Guinea Island – also spelled Nugini, known locally as Papua, the second largest island in the world; Java Island – the most populated ...
Indonesia map with name of islands larger than 1000 km 2. This list of Indonesian islands by area includes all Indonesian islands over 500 km 2 in descending order ...
The Javanese (/ dʒ ɑː v ə ˈ n iː z /, jah-və-NEEZ, [17] / dʒ æ v-/ jav-, /-ˈ n iː s /- NEESS; [18] Javanese: ꦮꦺꦴꦁꦗꦮ, romanized: Wong Jawa (in the ngoko register), ꦠꦶꦪꦁꦗꦮꦶ, Tiyang Jawi (in the krama register); [19] Indonesian: Orang Jawa) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the central and eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java.
The tectonic plates & movements under Indonesia. The main islands of Sumatra, Java, Madura, and Kalimantan lie on the Sunda plate and geographers have conventionally grouped them, (along with Sulawesi), as the Greater Sunda Islands. At Indonesia's eastern extremity is western New Guinea, which lies on the Australian plate. Sea depths in the ...
At the right, there is a description about Eastern Indonesian islands: Insula mudorum in qua homines et mulieres portant unum folium ante et retrò alium . Translation: Island of the naked people, in which men and women wear one leaf in front and another behind.