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The English name of "Singapore" is an anglicisation of the native Malay name for the country, Singapura (pronounced), which was in turn derived from the Sanskrit word for 'lion city' (Sanskrit: सिंहपुर; romanised: Siṃhapura; Brahmi: 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳𑀧𑀼𑀭; literally "lion city"; siṃha means 'lion', pura means 'city' or 'fortress'). [9]
The followings are the contiguous urban areas in Indonesia, with a population of over one million, according to Demographia's "World Urban Areas" study. Demographia defines an urban area (urbanised area agglomeration or urban centre) as a continuously built up land mass of urban development that is within a labor market ( metropolitan area ...
Map of Indonesia This is a list of places in Indonesia having standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as " town twinning " (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
The term Nusantara derives from a combined two words of Austronesian and Sanskrit origin, the word nūsa (see also nusa) meaning "island" in Old Javanese, is ultimately derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word *nusa with the same meaning, [12] and the word antara is a Javanese loanword borrowed from Sanskrit अन्तरा (antarā) meaning "between" or "in the middle", [13] thus ...
Indonesia-Singapore trade volume reaches S$36 billion (US$29.32 billion). Singapore is Indonesia's top foreign investor, with a cumulative total of US$1.14 billion in 142 projects. Trade between the two countries also hit around $68 billion in 2010. At the same time, Indonesia's non-oil and gas exports to Singapore are the highest in the region ...
The terms kota besar (big city), and kota kecil (small city or town), were used since the implementation of the Act Number 22 of 1948. Kota Besar was an urban equivalent of kabupaten (), which was the country's second level subdivision, just below province.
The Authority Secretariat (Indonesian: Sekretariat Otorita Ibu Kota Negara), headed by a Secretary of the Authority, is tasked to coordinate Authority program implementation, to provide administrative guidance and support, as well as to handle the organizational administration of the Authority and its apparatus. To this end, the Secretariat is ...
Postal codes in Indonesia, known in Indonesian as kode pos consist of 5 digits. The first digit indicates the region in which a given post office falls in, The second and third digits indicate the regency (kabupaten) or city (kota madya), The fourth digit indicates the district or kecamatan within the kabupaten or kota,