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The Indonesian archipelago is by far the world’s largest —–13,677 islands strewn across 5,120 kms (3,200 miles) of tropical seas. When superimposed on the map of North America, this means that Indonesia stretches from Oregon all the way Bermuda. Four-fifths of the intervening area is occupied by ocean, and many of the island are tiny, no more than rocky outcropped populated, perhaps, by a few seabirds. But 3,000 Indonesian islands are large enough to be inhabited, and New Guinea and Borneo rank as the second and third largest in the world (after Greenland). Of the other major islands, Sumatra is slightly larger than Sweden or California; Sulawesi is roughly the size of Great Britain and Java alone is as large as England or New York State. With a total land area of 2.02 million sq kms (780,000 sq miles), Indonesia the world fourteenth largest political unit.

Java

Jakarta (capital of Indonesia), Banten, West Java (Bogor, Bandung), Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java

Bali

Bali

Nusa Tenggara Islands

West Nusa Tenggara (Lombok), East Nusa Tenggara

Sumatra

Aceh Darussalam, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, West Sumatra, Jambi, Bangka Belitung, Bengkulu, Lampung

Sulawesi

North Sulawesi, Gorontalo, Central Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, South East Sulawesi

Kalimantan

West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan

Maluku

North Maluku, Maluku

Papua

Papua, West Papua