Indonesia
Indonesia is a huge tropical archipelago scattered across both sides of the Equator between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One of the world's most ecologically diverse countries, it comprises over 17,000 islands, many of them lush and rainforested, fringed by beaches and dotted with active volcanoes.Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Jakarta and East Java.
Jakarta
Jakarta is Indonesia's capital and largest city, with about 10 million inhabitants, and a total 41.9 million in Greater Jakarta on the Java island, making it the largest city in Southeast Asia and, by some measures, the largest city in the world.East Java
East Java covers the eastern third of the island of Java, Indonesia, as well as the island of Madura and several small offshore islands.Bandung
Bandung is the capital city of West Java province, and the third largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya. Nicknamed Parijs van Java by the Dutch for its resemblance to Paris and European atmosphere back in colonial times, it is locally called…Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Java and Sumatra.
Java
Java is an island in Indonesia. The much smaller but still sizable island of Madura, off the coast of and covered as part of the region of East Java, is also included in this article.Sumatra
Sumatra is a region of Indonesia and the sixth largest island in the world. Wild and rugged, Sumatra has great natural wealth.Nusa Tenggara
Bali
Bali, the famed "Island of the Gods", is the most visited part of Indonesia. Its diverse landscape of mountainous terrain, rugged coastlines and sandy beaches, lush rice terraces and barren volcanic hillsides provide a picturesque backdrop to its colourful, spiritual and unique culture.Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the main islands of Indonesia, and the eleventh largest island in the world. With four spindly arms spinning outward, Sulawesi's spidery shape is easily recognizable.Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, the third largest island in the world. The Indonesian part covers around 580,000 km2 although the vast area is home to only 12 million people, so most of the area, particularly the interior, is very sparsely populated.Maluku
The Maluku Islands, also known as the Moluccas or the Spice Islands, are a region of Indonesia lying between Sulawesi and Papua. They are divided into North Maluku Province and Maluku Province.Papua
Papua, also known as Western New Guinea and formerly Irian Jaya, is the easternmost part of Indonesia. It comprises the western half of the island of New Guinea, the world's largest and highest tropical island, while the eastern half is the independent country of Papua New Guinea.Indonesia
- Type: Country with 238,000,000 residents
- Description: island country in Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Also known as: “Ấn Độ Nê Tây Á”, “Ấn Ni”, “Cộng hoà Indonesia”, “Cộng hòa Indonesia”, “Den indonesiske republikk”, “Éng-dô-nà̤-să̤-ā”, “id”, “ID”, “IDN”, “Ìn-nî Kiōng-hô-kok”, “Ìn-tō͘-nî-se-a”, “INA”, “Indoneesia Vabariik”, “Indonesia dásseváldi”, “Indonesia Kiōng-hô-kok”, “Indonesia tääʹssväʹldd”, “Indonesia täsiväldi”, “Indonesian republic”, “Indonesian tasavalta”, “Indonésiya”, “Indonéská republika”, “Indonéz Köztársaság”, “Indonezijska republika”, “Indonézska republika”, “Indoniessa”, “iRephabhliki yase-Indonesia”, “Jindonezjô”, “Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia”, “Netherland India”, “Netherlands Indies”, “NKRI”, “Repubblika tal-Indoneżja”, “Republic of Indonesia”, “República d’Indonesia”, “República d’Indonèsia”, “República da Indonésia”, “República de Indonesia”, “Repùblica de Indonèsia”, “República ning Indonesia”, “Republiek de Verenigde Staten van Indonesië”, “Republik Indonesia”, “Republik Indonesia Serikat”, “Republik Indonesien”, “Republika Indonezija”, “Republika Indonezji”, “Republika ning Indonesia”, “Republiken Indonesien”, “Republikken Indonesia”, “République d’Indonésie”, “Républyique d’Îndonésie”, “Respubliko Indonezio”, “RI”, “United States of Indonesia”, “Yin-thu-nì-sî-â”, “Δημοκρατία της Ινδονησίας”, “Индонезиа Ареспублика”, “Република Индонезија”, “Република Индонезия”, “Республика Индонезия”, “Республіка Індонезія”, “РИ”, “ინდონეზიაშ რესპუბლიკა”, “جمهورية إندونيسيا”, “இந்துனீசியா”, “ಎನ್ಕೆಆರ್ಐ”, “ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್ ಇಂಡೋನೇಶಿಯಾ”, “റിറിപ്പബ്ലിക് ഓഫ് ഇന്തോനേഷ്യ”, “ᮄᮔ᮪ᮓᮧᮔᮦᮞᮤᮃ”, “ᮛᮦᮕᮥᮘᮣᮤᮊ᮪ ᮄᮔ᮪ᮓᮧᮔᮦᮞᮤᮃ”, “หมู่เกาะมลายู”, “หมู่เกาะอินเดีย”, “อินโด”, “ແອງໂດເນຊີ”, “ᨕᨗᨉᨚᨊᨙᨔᨗᨕ”, “ប្រទេសឥណ្ឌូណេស៊ី”, “សាធារណរដ្ឋឥណ្ឌូណេស៊ី”, “ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី”, “ꦆꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦴꦤꦺꦱꦶꦪ”, “ꦫꦺꦥꦸꦧ꧀ꦭꦶꦏ꧀ꦆꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦴꦤꦺꦱꦶꦪ”, “인니”, “努山達拉人民國”, “印度尼西亚共和国”, and “印度尼西亚共和國”
- Historically known as: “Dutch East Indies”
- Languages: Indonesian, English, Dutch, and Javanese
- Neighbors: Australia, India, Malaysia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam
- Categories: sovereign state, archipelagic state, constitutional republic, island country, historical unrecognized state, unitary state, and locality
- Location: Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
-3.6° or 3° 36′ south
Longitude of center
119.7° or 119° 42′ east
Population
238,000,000
Area
1,919,440 km² (741,100 miles²)
Elevation
412 metres (1,352 feet)
Capital
Currency
Rupiah (IDR)
Phone code
62
Internet domain
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Indonesia” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Индонезиа”
- Achinese: “Indônèsia”
- Adyghe: “Индонезие”
- Afrikaans: “Indonesië”
- Akan: “Indɔnehyia”
- Albanian: “Indonezi”
- Albanian: “Indonezia”
- Amharic: “ኢንዶኔዢያ”
- Amharic: “ኢንዶኔዥያ”
- Amis: “Indonesia”
- Angika: “इंडोनेशिया”
- Arabic: “إندونيسيا”
- Arabic: “اندونيسيا”
- Aragonese: “Indonesia”
- Armenian: “Ինդոնեզիա”
- Arpitan: “Endonèsie”
- Arpitan: “Indonèsia”
- Assamese: “ইণ্ডোনেচিয়া”
- Assamese: “ইণ্ডোনেছিয়া”
- Asturian: “Indonesia”
- Atayal: “Indonesia”
- Avaric: “Индонезия”
- Awadhi: “इण्डोनेशिया”
- Aymara: “Indunisya”
- Azerbaijani: “İndoneziya”
- Balinese: “Indonésia”
- Balinese: “ᬇᬦ᭄ᬤᭀᬦᬾᬲᬶᬬ”
- Bambara: “Ɛndonezi”
- Banjar: “Indunisia”
- Bashkir: “Индонезия”
- Basque: “Indonesia”
- Batak Mandailing: “Indonesia”
- Batak Toba: “Indonesia”
- Bavarian: “Indonesien”
- Belarusian: “Інданезія”
- Belarusian: “Інданэзія”
- Bengali: “ইন্দোনেশিয়া”
- Betawi: “Indonésia”
- Bhojpuri: “इंडोनेशिया”
- Bishnupriya: “ইন্দোনেশিয়া”
- Bislama: “Indonesia”
- Bosnian: “Indonezija”
- Brahui: “Inđoneşíá”
- Breton: “Indonezia”
- Buginese: “ᨕᨗᨉᨚᨊᨙᨔᨗᨐ”
- Bulgarian: “Индонезия”
- Burmese: “အင်ဒိုနီးရှား”
- Burmese: “အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “Indonèsia”
- Cebuano: “Indonesia”
- Cebuano: “Indonesya”
- Central Bikol: “Indonesya”
- Central Kanuri: “Indonesia”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیندۆنیزیا”
- Chamorro: “Indonesia”
- Chavacano: “Indonesia”
- Chechen: “Индонези”
- Chechen: “ХӀиндонези”
- Cherokee: “ᎢᏂᏙᏂᏍᏯ”
- Cheyenne: “Indonesia”
- Chinese: “印度尼西亚 / 印度尼西亞”
- Chinese: “印度尼西亚”
- Chinese: “印度尼西亞”
- Church Slavic: “Їндонисїꙗ”
- Chuvash: “Индонези”
- Cornish: “Indonesi”
- Corsican: “Indunesia”
- Crimean Tatar: “İndoneziya”
- Croatian: “Indonezija”
- Czech: “Indonésie”
- Dagbani: “Indonesia”
- Danish: “Indonesien”
- Dhivehi: “އިންޑޮނޭޝިޔާ”
- Dimli (individual language): “İndonezya”
- Dotyali: “इण्डोनेशिया”
- Dotyali: “इण्डोनेसिया”
- Dutch: “Indonesië”
- Dutch: “Nederlands-Indië” (historical)
- Dutch: “Nederlandsch-Indië” (historical)
- Dutch: “Oost-Indien” (historical)
- Dutch: “Republiek Indonesië”
- Dzongkha: “ཨིན་ཌོ་ནེ་ཤི་ཡ།”
- Dzongkha: “ཨིན་ཌོ་ནེ་ཤི་ཡ”
- Dzongkha: “ཨིན་རྡུ་ནི་ཤིས་ཡ།”
- Eastern Mari: “Индонезий”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اندونيسيا”
- Erzya: “Индонезия”
- Esperanto: “Indonezio”
- Estonian: “Indoneesia”
- Ewe: “Indonesia nutome”
- Ewe: “Indonesia”
- Extremaduran: “Indonesia”
- Extremaduran: “Indonésia”
- Faroese: “Indonesia”
- Fiji Hindi: “Indonesia”
- Fijian: “Idonisia”
- Fijian: “Indonesia”
- Finnish: “Indonesia”
- French: “Indonésie”
- French: “Indes orientales néerlandaises” (historical)
- Fulah: “Enndonesii”
- Fulah: “Inndonesiya”
- Gagauz: “İndoneziya”
- Galician: “Indonesia”
- Gan Chinese: “印度尼西亞”
- Ganda: “Yindonezya”
- Georgian: “ინდონეზია”
- German: “Indonesien”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Indonesia”
- Gilaki: “أندؤنزي”
- Goan Konkani: “Indonesia”
- Goan Konkani: “इंडोनिशिया”
- Goan Konkani: “इंडोनेशिया”
- Gorontalo: “Indonesia”
- Greek: “Ινδονησία”
- Guarani: “Indonesia”
- Guarani: “Indonésia”
- Guianese Creole French: “Endonézi”
- Gujarati: “ઇન્ડોનેશિયા”
- Gujarati: “ઈંડોનેશિયા”
- Haitian: “Endonezi”
- Hakka Chinese: “Yin-nì”
- Hausa: “Indonesiya”
- Hausa: “Indunusiya”
- Hawaiian: “‘Inidonesia”
- Hawaiian: “ʻInidonesia”
- Hebrew: “אינדונזיה”
- Hindi: “इंडोनेशिया”
- Hindi: “इन्डोनेशिया”
- Hungarian: “Indonézia”
- Iban: “Indonesia”
- Icelandic: “Indónesía”
- Ido: “Indonezia”
- Igbo: “Indonesia”
- Iloko: “Indonesia”
- Inari Sami: “Indonesia”
- Indonesian: “Indonesia”
- Ingush: “ХIиндонези”
- Ingush: “ХӀиндонези”
- Interlingua: “Indonesia”
- Interlingue: “Indonesia”
- Inuktitut: “ᐄᓅᓯᐊ”
- Inupiaq: “Indonesia”
- Inupiaq: “Intunisia”
- Irish: “an Indinéis”
- Irish: “An Indinéis”
- Italian: “Indonesia”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Indoniija”
- Japanese: “Indoneshia”
- Japanese: “インドネシア”
- Japanese: “インドネシア共和国”
- Javanese: “Indhonésia”
- Javanese: “Indonesia”
- Javanese: “Indonésia”
- Jèrriais: “Îndonésie”
- Kabardian: “Индонезиэ”
- Kabiyè: “Ɛndonezi”
- Kabuverdianu: “Indonézia”
- Kabyle: “Indunisya”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Indonesia”
- Kalaallisut: “Indonesia”
- Kalmyk: “Эндонесин Орн”
- Kannada: “ಇಂಡೋನೇಶಿಯಾ”
- Kannada: “ಇಂಡೋನೇಷ್ಯಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Indoneziya”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Индонезия”
- Kashmiri: “اِنٛڈونیشِیا”
- Kashmiri: “اِنڑونیشِیا”
- Kashubian: “Indonezjô”
- Kazakh: “Индонезия”
- Khmer: “ឥណ្ឌូណេស៊ី”
- Kikuyu: “Indonesia”
- Kildin Sami: “Индонэзия”
- Kinyarwanda: “Indonesiya”
- Kirghiz: “Индонезия”
- Kölsch: “Indonesien”
- Komering: “Indonesia”
- Komering: “Indonesiya”
- Komi: “Индонезия”
- Kongo: “Indonesia”
- Korean: “인도네시아”
- Kurdish: “Endonezya”
- Kurdish: “Indonesiya”
- Kurdish: “Îndonezya”
- Ladin: “Indonesia”
- Ladino: “Indonesia”
- Lampung Api: “Indonesia”
- Lao: “ປະເທດອິນໂດເນເຊຍ”
- Lao: “ອິນໂດເນເຊຍ”
- Latin: “Indonesia”
- Latvian: “Indonēzija”
- Lezghian: “Индонезия”
- Ligurian: “Indonexia”
- Limburgan: “Indonesië”
- Lingala: “Indonezi”
- Lingala: “Indonezí”
- Lingala: “Indoneziá”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Indonesia”
- Literary Chinese: “印度尼西亞”
- Lithuanian: “Indonezija”
- Livvi: “Indonezii”
- Lojban: “bidgu’e”
- Lombard: “Indunesia”
- Low German: “Indonesien”
- Low German: “Indonezie”
- Lower Sorbian: “Indoneziska”
- Luba-Katanga: “Indonezi”
- Lule Sami: “Indonessa”
- Luxembourgish: “Indonesien”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Indonezia”
- Macedonian: “Индонезија”
- Madurese: “Inḍonèsia”
- Magahi: “इण्डोनेसिया”
- Maithili: “इन्डोनेसिया”
- Malagasy: “Indonezia”
- Malagasy: “Indônezia”
- Malay: “Indonesia”
- Malay: “ايندونيسيا”
- Malayalam: “ഇന്ഡോനേഷ്യ”
- Malayalam: “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യ”
- Maltese: “Indoneżja”
- Maltese: “l-Indoneżja”
- Manipuri: “ꯏꯟꯗꯣꯅꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ”
- Manx: “yn Indoneesh”
- Manx: “Yn Indoneesh”
- Maori: “Initonīhia”
- Marathi: “इंडोनेशिया”
- Mazanderani: “اندونزی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Éng-nà̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ìn-nî”
- Min Nan Chinese: “印尼”
- Minangkabau: “Indonesia”
- Mingrelian: “ინდონეზია”
- Mirandese: “Andonésia”
- Moksha: “Индонэзия”
- Mon: “အေန်ဒဝ်နဳရှာ”
- Mongolian: “Индонез”
- Moroccan Arabic: “أندونيسيا”
- Mossi: “Indonesia”
- N'Ko: “ߍ߲ߘߏߣߛߌ߫”
- Nauru: “Indonesia”
- Nauru: “Indonitsiya”
- Navajo: “Kéyah Dah Ndaaʼeełí Łání”
- Neapolitan: “Indonesia”
- Neapolitan: “Indonesie”
- Nepali: “इन्डोनेशिया”
- Nepali: “इन्डोनेसिया”
- Newari: “इन्दोनेसिया”
- Nias: “Indonesia”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Indonesia”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Indonishia”
- North Ndebele: “Indonesiya”
- Northern Frisian: “Indoneesien/fe”
- Northern Frisian: “Indoneesien”
- Northern Luri: “اندونزی”
- Northern Sami: “Indonesia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Indonesia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Indonesia”
- Norwegian: “Indonesia”
- Novial: “Indonesia”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Indonesia”
- Nyanja: “Indonesia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Indonesia”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Indonesia”
- Oriya: “ଇଣ୍ଡୋନେସିଆ”
- Oromo: “Indoneeshiyaa”
- Ossetian: “Индонези”
- Pa'o Karen: “အေန်ဒိုနီးသျားခမ်းထီ”
- Pali: “इन्दोनेशिया”
- Pampanga: “Indonesia”
- Pangasinan: “Indonesiya”
- Panjabi: “ਇੰਡੋਨੇਸ਼ੀਆ”
- Papiamento: “Indonesia”
- Persian: “اندوزی”
- Persian: “اندونزی”
- Picard: “Indonésie”
- Piemontese: “Indonesia”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Endonesya”
- Polish: “Indonezja”
- Portuguese: “Indonésia”
- Pushto: “اندونيزيا”
- Pushto: “اندونیزیا”
- Pushto: “اندونېزيا”
- Quechua: “Indonesia”
- Quechua: “Indunisya”
- Quechua: “Inrunisya”
- Romanian: “Indonezia”
- Romansh: “Indonesia”
- Rundi: “Indoneziya”
- Russia Buriat: “Индонез”
- Russia Buriat: “Индонези”
- Russian: “Индонезия”
- Rusyn: “Індонезія”
- Sakizaya: “Indonesia”
- Samoan: “Indyunisia”
- Samoan: “Initonesia”
- Samogitian: “Indonezėjė”
- Samogitian: “Induonezėjė”
- Sango: “Ênndonezïi”
- Sanskrit: “इण्डोनेशिया”
- Sanskrit: “इन्दोनेशिया”
- Santali: “ᱤᱱᱫᱳᱱᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Indonèsia”
- Saterfriesisch: “Indonesien”
- Scots: “Indonesie”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Innd-Innse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Innd-innse”
- Serbian: “Indonezija”
- Serbian: “Индонезија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Indonezija”
- Shan: “မိူင်းဢိၼ်ႇတူဝ်ႇၼီးသျႃး”
- Shona: “Indonesia”
- Shona: “Indonezha”
- Sicilian: “Indunesia”
- Silesian: “Indůnezyjo”
- Sindhi: “انڊونيشيا”
- Sinhala: “ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Skolt Sami: “Indonesia”
- Slovak: “Indonézia”
- Slovenian: “Indonezija”
- Somali: “Indoneesiya”
- Somali: “Indunisiya”
- South Azerbaijani: “اندونزی”
- Southern Dagaare: “Indonesia”
- Southern Sami: “Indonesije”
- Spanish: “Indonesia”
- Sranan Tongo: “Indonesikondre”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵏⴷⵓⵏⵉⵙⵢⴰ”
- Sundanese: “Indonésia”
- Sundanese: “Républik Indonésia”
- Swahili: “Indonesia”
- Swati: “INdonesiya”
- Swedish: “Indonesien”
- Swiss German: “Indonesie”
- Swiss German: “Indonesien”
- Sylheti: “ꠁꠘ꠆ꠖꠥꠘꠦꠡꠤꠀ”
- Tachelhit: “Indunisya”
- Tagalog: “Indonesia”
- Tagalog: “Indonesya”
- Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥟᥤᥢᥱ ᥖᥨᥝᥱ ᥢᥤᥰ ᥔᥦᥰ”
- Tajik: “Индонезия”
- Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Индонезия”
- Talysh: “Indonezijə”
- Tamil: “இந்தோனேசியா”
- Tamil: “இந்தோனேஷியா”
- Taroko: “Indonesia”
- Tatar: “Индонезия”
- Telugu: “ఇండోనేషియా”
- Telugu: “ఇండోనేసియా”
- Tetum: “Indonézia”
- Thai: “ประเทศอินโดนีเซีย”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐอินโดนีเซีย”
- Thai: “อินโดนีเซีย”
- Tibetan: “ཨིན་ཌོ་ནེ་ཤི་ཡ།”
- Tibetan: “ཨིན་རྡུ་ནི་ཤིས་ཡ།”
- Tigrinya: “ኢንዶኔስያ”
- Tigrinya: “ኢንዶኔዢያ”
- Tok Pisin: “Indonisia”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻInitonēsia”
- Tsonga: “Indonesia”
- Tulu: “ಇಂಡೋನೇಷ್ಯಾ”
- Tumbuka: “Indonesia”
- Tunisian Arabic: “إندونيسيا”
- Turkish: “Endonezya”
- Turkmen: “Indoneziýa”
- Twi: “Indonesia”
- Twi: “Indonisia”
- Tyap: “Ndonisiya”
- Udmurt: “Индонезия”
- Uighur: “ھىندونېزىيە”
- Uighur: “ھىندۇنېزىيە”
- Ukrainian: “Індонезія”
- Upper Sorbian: “Indoneska”
- Urdu: “انڈونیشیا”
- Uzbek: “Indoneziya”
- Venetian: “Indonèzia”
- Veps: “Indonezii”
- Vietnamese: “In-đô-nê-xi-a (Nam Dương)”
- Vietnamese: “Indonesia”
- Vietnamese: “Nam Dương”
- Vlaams: “Indonesië”
- Volapük: “Lindäna-Seänuäns”
- Võro: “Indoneesiä”
- Walloon: “Indonezeye”
- Waray (Philippines): “Indonesia”
- Welsh: “Indonesia”
- West Coast Bajau: “Indonesia”
- Western Armenian: “Ինտոնեզիա”
- Western Balochi: “ایندونیزیا”
- Western Frisian: “Yndoneezje”
- Western Frisian: “Yndonesië”
- Western Mari: “Индонези”
- Western Panjabi: “انڈونیشیا”
- Wolof: “Endoneesi”
- Wolof: “Indonesi”
- Wu Chinese: “印度尼西亚”
- Yakut: “Индонезия”
- Yiddish: “אינדאנעזיע”
- Yoruba: “Indonesia”
- Yoruba: “Indonésíà”
- Yue Chinese: “印尼”
- Zeeuws: “Indonesië”
- Zhuang: “Yindunizsihya”
- Zhuang: “Yinniz”
- Zulu: “i-Indonesia”
- Zulu: “I-Indonesia”
- “Indonesia”
- “Indonezija”
- “ma Intonesija”
- “इंडोनेशिया”
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