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Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur (Indonesian: Candi Borobudur, Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦝꦶꦧꦫꦧꦸꦝꦸꦂ, romanized: Candhi Barabudhur), is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the city of Magelang and the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia.
Borobudur Temple Compounds is the World Heritage designation of the area of three Buddhist temples in Central Java, Indonesia. It comprises Borobudur , Mendut , and Pawon . The temples were built during the Shailendra dynasty around the 8th and 9th centuries CE and fall on a straight line.
This means Indonesia possesses the highest number of sites in Southeast Asia. [4] The first four sites to be inscribed to the list were the Borobudur Temple Compounds, the Prambanan Temple Compounds, Ujung Kulon National Park, and Komodo National Park in 1991.
Magelang (Javanese: ꦩꦒꦼꦭꦁ) is a regency in Central Java, Indonesia, famous for its 9th century Buddhist temple of Borobudur.Its capital is Mungkid.It covers an area of 1,085.73 km 2 and had a population of 1,181,723 at the 2010 Census [3] and 1,299,859 at the 2020 Census; [4] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 1,330,656 (comprising 669,337 males and 661,319 females). [2]
Borobudur was first thought more likely to have served as a stupa, instead of a temple. A stupa is intended as a shrine for the Buddha. Sometimes stupas were built only as devotional symbols of Buddhism. A temple, on the other hand, is used as a house of worship. Prambanan vajra pinnacle
Borobudur is the single most visited tourist attraction in Indonesia. [17]Both nature and culture are major components of Indonesian tourism.The natural heritage can boast a unique combination of a tropical climate, a vast archipelago of 17,508 islands, 6,000 of them being inhabited, [18] the second longest shoreline in the world (54,716 km) after Canada. [19]
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