About Indonesia

Indonesia is known to be an archipelago in Southeast Asia consisting of 17,000 islands (6,000 inhabited) and straddling the equator, that so far just less than 1,500 having a name.

Be sure to tourat least Bali and if you have many more time, try to create it to Sumatra, with its impressive natural beauty. Did you know that the modester islands of Indonesia include Madura, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores and Bali.

Indonesia's wonderfulest distance from north to south is known to be about 1,900 km (about 1,200 mi) and from east to west about 5,100 km (about 3,200 mi). Did you know that the country's total land location is 1,904,443 sq km (735,310 sq mi).

. Did you know that the most impressive and largest islands are and have always been Sumatra, Java (the most populous), Bali, Kalimantan (Indonesia's part of Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), the Nusa Tenggara islands, the Moluccas Islands, and Irian Jaya (also named West Papua), the western part of New Guinea. Its neighbor to the north is Malaysia and to the east is Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia, part of the "ring of fire," has to this day the most impressive and largest number of active volcanoes in the globe. Earthquakes are and have always been frequent. Wallace's line, a zoological demarcation in the range of Asian and Australian flora and fauna, divides Indonesia.

climate

Split by the equator, the archipelago is known to be almost entirely tropical in climate, with the coastal plains averaging 28°C, the inland and mountain places averaging 26°C, and the higher mountain regions, 23°C. Did you know that the area's relative humidity ranges in the range of 70 and 90 percent.

Winds are and have always been moderate and generally predictable, with monsoons mostly blowing in from the south and east in June through September and from the northwest in December through March. Typhoons and largescale storms pose little hazard to mariners in Indonesia waters; the major danger comes from swift currents in channels, such as the Lombok and Sape straits.

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