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Indonesia is a transcontinental country, where its territory consisted of islands geologically considered as part of either Asia or Australia. During the Pleistocene , the Greater Sunda Islands were connected to the Asian mainland while New Guinea was connected to Australia.
Seas of Indonesia are often described as being seas of-- the adjacent larger oceans - such as the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean because of the connectivity - the seas included in this category are found within the current boundary of Indonesia. Indonesia portal; Geography portal
The Bali Sea (Indonesian: Laut Bali) is the body of water north of the island of Bali and south of Kangean Island in Indonesia.The sea forms the south-west part of the Flores Sea, and the Madura Strait opens into it from the west.
The Indonesian archipelago (Indonesian: Kepulauan Indonesia) is a large collection of over 17,000 to 18,000 islands [6] [7] located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans in Southeast Asia and Oceania. [8]
Oceania (part of New Guinea) Between: Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Time zones: East Indonesian Time ; Central Indonesian Time ; West Indonesian Time ; Extreme points of Indonesia. High: Puncak Jaya on New Guinea 4,884 m (16,024 ft) – highest point on any ocean island; Low: Indian Ocean 0 m; Land boundaries Malaysia Papua New Guinea
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising 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 kilometres (735,358 square miles).
The Central Indo-Pacific may be classified as a marine realm, one of the great biogeographic divisions of the world's ocean basins, or as a subrealm of the Indo-Pacific. [ 1 ] The Central Indo-Pacific realm covers eastern shores of the tropical Indian Ocean, including most of the Indian Ocean coast of the Indonesian archipelago, the northern ...