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Indonesia (Republik Indonesia) is located in Southeast Asia between the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Other seas near Indonesia include Java Sea, Flores Sea, Arufurazee, Banda Sea, Timor Sea and South China Sea. The archipelago comprises 13,677 islands, of which approximately 990 are inhabited. Indonesia has a land area of approximately 1.95 million km2 and about fifty times larger than the Netherlands. 64% of the total area of Indonesia consist of water. That is why Indonesians call their country Tanah Air Kita, "our land and water". The biggest islands are Kalimantan (539,460 km2), the Indonesian part of Borneo, Sumatra (473,606 km2), Irian Jaya (421,981 km2), the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Sulawesi (189,216 km2) and Java (132,187 km2) . Together they cover more than 90% of the total territory of the republic. Other special islands to travel are: Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi (Celebes), Kalimantan (Borneo), Ambon, Seram, Ternate, Tidor, the Banda and Aru Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia adjacent to East Timor (228 km) , Malaysia (1782 km) and Papua New Guinea (820 km).
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Asian Countries