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| Indonesian Map |
Indonesia is a
country with wonderful and amazing nature; consist of many rivers, mountains,
beaches and villages or cities. As an archipelagic country with more than
17.504 islands, Indonesia also kwon as “the emerald of equator”. This country
has the 4th longer coast line with 95.181 km of length.
Among those 17.504
Islands there are 5 major islands in Indonesia which is Sumatera, Java, Kalimantan
or Borneo, Sulawesi, and Papua.
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| Beach in Bali, Indonesia |
Indonesia's total
land area is 1,919,317 square kilometers (741,052 sq mi). beside the
land area, Included in Indonesia's total territory is another 93,000 square kilometers
(35,908 sq mi) of inland seas (straits, bays, and other bodies of
water). The additional surrounding sea areas bring Indonesia's generally
recognized territory (land and sea) to about 5 million square kilometers.
Beside beaches,
Indonesia also has many mountains. About 400 mountains, with 130 active
volcanoes, stands between sabang, the
westernmost of this country, until merauke,
the easternmost. Indonesia also a
meeting place of two ring fire of volcanoes, and three tectonic plates which is
indo-australia, eurasia, and pasific plates. That is why eruption of volcanoes
and earthquake often occurred.
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| Bromo Volcanic Mountain |
Indonesia also has variated
cultural richness with more than
300 etchnic group, 721 local languages, cultures and architectures. Javanesse is the biggest ethnict group
with 41% of population. And next theres sundanese, maduranes, malay, chinesse
and others.
This geographical
and cultural richness has made Indonesia as a unique country with many beautiful places like beaches,
mountains, rural area and others. The next article of this blog will tell about
those beautiful places.
