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Number of islands in Indonesia
The country of Indonesia consists of approximately 17,500 islands, of which more than 7,000 are uninhabited, and these islands are divided into groups: the Greater Sunda Islands (Sumatra), Java (Java), Borneo (Kalimantan), Sulawesi (Celebes), and the Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku, the western extension of the island of New Guinea, the capital Jakarta is located near the northwestern coast of Java, and Indonesia consists of an archipelago located next to the equator, and extends a distance equivalent to the price of the Earth’s circumference, and extends about 1,600 km from north to south, and more than 5,000 km from east to west , Which makes it the largest archipelago in the world, and some of the islands of Indonesia have a land border It is shared with some other countries, such as: East Timor, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea.
The constituent regions of the archipelago of Indonesia
The archipelago formed for Indonesia is divided into three main regions, and one of these regions consists of: Sumatra, Java and Kalimantan, in addition to the islands between them, located on the Sunda wharf, which have a depth of no more than 210 meters, and the other region consists of Irian Jaya and Alo Islands located On the Sahul wharf, between the two wharfs lies the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Maluku Islands, and Sulawesi, surrounded by the sea at a depth of 4,570 m.
General information about the islands of Indonesia
Some general information about the Indonesian islands include:
- Sumatra, Kalimantan and western New Kenya each have three quarters of Indonesia, while Silibis, Java and Maluku each represent the majority of the remaining area.
- The main Indonesian islands are characterized by volcanic mountains covered with dense forests in the interior, which descend down to the coastal plains covered in marshes.
- Borneo is the third largest island in the world, and the main island in Sunda Pier.
- Sumatra Island extends across the equator from the northwest direction towards the southeast at a distance of approximately 1600 km.
