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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).
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries.
London is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the Latinised form Londinium. [34] Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: Latin (usually Londinium), Old English (usually Lunden), and Welsh (usually Llundein), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages.
The city is home to several alternative, weekly, and monthly publications, among which are free weekly print magazine publications including CityBeat [212] and La Jornada Latina. The city's weekly African American newspaper, The Cincinnati Herald , was founded by Gerald Porter in 1955 and purchased by Sesh Communications in 1996.
The total area is 30,977 square miles (80,231 km 2) with a land area of 30,078 square miles (77,901 km 2), [4] comparable to the size of the Czech Republic. Scotland's only land border is with England, and runs for 96 miles (154 km) between the basin of the River Tweed on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west.