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embraces a total area of five million square kilometers, about one million square kilometers more than the total land area of the United States. The surrounding sea area is three times larger than the land, and Indonesians are one of the few peoples in the world who include water within the boundaries of their territory, calling their country Tanah Air Kita, literally "Our Land and Water." Of the country's 17,110 islands |
INDONESIA
A country of incredible and diverse beauty, Indonesia sprawls across one-eighth of the globe, stretching from Malaysia to Australia. This nation encompasses mind-stupefying extremes: the 5,000-meter-high snowcapped mountains of Irian Jaya, sweltering lowland swamps of eastern Sumatra, open eucalyptus savannahs of Timor, lush rainforests of western Java. Restless volcanoes spew lava the whole length.
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Indonesia claims the better part of three of the world's largest--New Guinea, Borneo, and Sumatra. Only 6,000 are named, and 992 permanently settled. Not all the islands in insular Southeast Asia belong to Indonesia. The massive island of New Guinea consists of Papua New Guinea on the east and Irian Jaya to the west, only the latter an Indonesian territory. The northern one-quarter of the island of Borneo belongs to Eastern Malaysia and Brunei, while the southern three-quarters comprises the Indonesian provinces of Kalimantan. |
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