Indonesia Statistics & Information
- Indonesia is the world's fourth most populated country in the world.
- Indonesia is a republic with an elected legislature and president.
- Indonesia's capital city is Jakarta.
- Indonesia shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia.
- Neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia and Palau.
- The Indonesian economy is the world's sixteenth largest by nominal GDP and fifteenth largest by purchasing power parity.
- Indonesia consists of hundreds of distinct native ethnic and linguistic groups. The largest and most dominant ethnic group are the Javanese.
- Indonesia derives from the Latin and Greek Indus, and the Greek nèsos, meaning "island".
- Indonesia lies between latitudes 11°S and 6°N and longitudes 95°E and 141°E.
- Indonesia consists of 17,508 islands. About 6,000 of these are inhabited. These islands are scattered over both sides of the equator.
- Indonesia's location on the edges of the Pacific, Eurasian, and Australian tectonic plates means that the country is known for numerous volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Indonesia has at least 150 active volcanoes including the famous Krakatoa and Tambora.
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