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Indonesia
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GEOGRAPHY

Indonesia is an equatorial archipelago of over 17,000 islands (6,000 inhabited) extending about 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometres) east to west and 1,250 miles (2,012 kilometres) north to south. It is divided into 33 provinces. The largest islands are Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes) and Papua (the Indonesian half of New Guinea). Most of the smaller islands except Madura and Bali belong to larger groups. The largest of these are Maluku (Moluccas) and Nusa Tenggara (Lesser Sundas).