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date: 22 March 2025

Indonesia. 

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
Author(s):
R. Murray ThomasR. Murray Thomas

The Republic of Indonesia consists of three thousand inhabited islands and seven thousand islets spread 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometers) north to south and 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) east to west along the Equator in the seas of Southeast Asia. The archipelago includes some of the world's largest islands—Sumatra, Kalimantan (Borneo), New Guinea (Papua), Sulawesi (Celebes), and Java. In the early twenty-first century, Indonesia's 240 million inhabitants made the nation the fourth most populous in the world. The nation's name is a neologism coined by a German geographer in ... ...

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