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Java [a] is one of the islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 153.8 million people, Java is the world's most populous island, home to approximately 54% of the Indonesian population. [2] Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta, is on Java's northwestern coast.
The islands of Indonesia, also known as the Indonesian Archipelago (Kepulauan Indonesia) or Nusantara, may refer either to the islands composing the country of Indonesia or to the geographical groups which include its islands. [3] Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state, stretching from Sumatra in Asia to the western part of New ...
Herpestes exilis by Paul Gervais in 1841 was a specimen from Tourane in Vietnam. [4] Herpestes rafflesii by John Anderson in 1875 was a specimen from Sumatra. [5] Mungos rubifrons by Joel Asaph Allen in 1909 were eight adult specimens collected around Wuzhi Mountain in Hainan Island, China. [6]
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).
Although dense, the distribution of the population is uneven, about 55% of Indonesia's population lives on the island of Java, the most populous island in the world. A map of ethnic groups in Indonesia. The Indonesian archipelago is characterized by significant ethnic diversity, comprising approximately 600 distinct native ethnic groups.
Java is an island in Indonesia - islands of Java, refer to those islands found within the areas of the provinces of Java Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
West Java, also called Jawa Barat, a province on the Indonesian island of Java; Chek Jawa, a cape and the name of its 100-hectare wetlands located on the south-eastern tip of Pulau Ubin off coast of Singapore; Karimunjava, an archipelago of 69 islands in the Java Sea, Indonesia, approximately 80 kilometres northwest of Jepara
Java is an island in Indonesia, with provinces in Banten, West Java, Special Region of Yogyakarta Central Java, East Java For more information, see Java . Subcategories