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The boundary is separated into three segments, with the first two broken by the Timor Gap. The first is between the Australia – Indonesia – Papua New Guinea tripoint at 10° 50' S, 139° 12' E, and the point whether the territorial waters of the two countries touch the eastern limits of the territorial waters claimed by East Timor at 9° 28' S, 127° 56' E.
The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [ 1 ] Countries or territories that are connected only by man-made structures such as bridges, causeways or tunnels are not considered to have land borders.
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.
Indonesia spans both areas, but is ordinarily considered to be an Asian country. [1] East Timor is sometimes considered to be part of Australasia or Melanesia, but due to its being surrounded by Indonesia, and its once being politically part of Indonesia, it is generally considered to be in Southeast Asia.
Some key dates in Indonesia's history: 1670-1900 - Dutch colonists bring the whole of Indonesia under one government as the Dutch East Indies. 1942 - Japan occupies Dutch East Indies.
Section Key: ( * ) = represents a sea (or other body of water)'s parent ocean; [ clarification needed ] also it may represent a dependency's parent country (Note: All official and unofficial claims by countries and/or governments on the continent of Antarctica are excluded from this section list.)
Uninhabited, located at , bordering Vietnam, used as stopover point by Indonesian and foreign fishermen. 0.3 Nipa: Batam, Riau Islands: Uninhabited, bordering Singapore, consists for 80% of dead coral and for 20% of sand which is mainly exported to Singapore. 0.60
Dampier Strait (Indonesia) Bird's Head Peninsula and Raja Ampat Islands: Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) New Britain and Umboi Island: Danish straits: Refers collectively to the Danish straits Oresund, Fehmarn Belt, Little Belt and Great Belt between Scandinavia and Jutland. Dardanelles: Europe and Asia Davis Strait: Baffin Island and ...