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Indonesia

ID / IDN   -2.0°, 118.0°

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising between 13,000 and 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, it is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area. Indonesia has extensive tropical forests and marine ecosystems that support one of the world's highest levels of biodiversity.

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People are called
Indonesian
Driving side
Left
Calling code
+62
Capital
Jakarta
Population
275,439,000
Area
1,904,570 km2
Climate
Tropical
Government
Presidential republic
Currency
rupiah
Languages
Indonesian, English, Dutch
Sells
coal, palm oil, iron alloys, lignite
Sells to
China 24%, USA 9%, India 8%
Land borders
3: Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste
Drives on the
left
Calling code
+62
Founded
1945
Hemisphere
Southern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Indonesian

These are English demonyms for people from Indonesia. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

A sourced civilization and flag trail has not been added for Indonesia yet. No ancient flag is inferred from the modern one.

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Turning points

A curated timeline is not available yet. Explore the country's history and the historical figures below.

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

Indonesia in the study desk

Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Indonesia. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

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Largest cities

Jakarta  capital 8,540,121
Surabaya 3,018,022
Bekasi 2,648,272
Bandung 2,528,163
Medan 2,486,283

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Form of government

Presidential republic.

Climate and geography

tropical; hot, humid; more moderate in highlands

Climate zone

Highest point

Southern hemisphere.

Figures from its history

Sukarno
Sukarno Founding president Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967.
Suharto
Suharto Ruler, 1967-1998 Suharto was an Indonesian general and politician who served as the second and longest-serving president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998.
Raden Adjeng Kartini
Raden Adjeng Kartini Pioneer of women's education Raden Adjeng Kartini, also known as Raden Ayu Kartini, was a prominent Indonesian advocate of women's rights and female education.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Continents — Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
    The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: capitals, languages.