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How Many Islands Does Indonesia Have ?
Indonesia has 17,508 islands out of which 11,508 remain uninhabited. The islands are archipelagic in nature and have active volcanoes too. Extending from the Malay Peninsula in the west to Melanesia in the east, there are islands that are submerged periodically depending on the tides. |
After the earthquake in September 2007, a group of 6 small new islands were produced and uplifted the others too. Most part of Indonesia remains partially active and the number of islands along with the sizes and shapes continue to be born with each earthquake or tidal wave.
The main islands of Indonesia are the Greater Sunda Islands which are:
- Borneo that is divided between the Kalimantan of Indonesia, Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah.
- Java which was formerly known as Jawa Dwipa
- Sumatra which was earlier called Swarna Dwipa and
- Sulawesi also called earlier as Celebes.
New Guinea is divided by the provinces that belong to Indonesia and the country of Papua New Guinea. These provinces are West Papua and Papua. Java has many islands and some of them are the Sangiang in the province of Banten, province of DKI Jakarta, province of West Java, which consists of Tangkuban Parahu, Pangandaran and Pelabuhan Ratu, the province of Central Java, has Karimun Jawa and the prison island Nusa Kambangan. East Java has the Bawean archipelago called Kepulauan Bawaen, the Kangean islands called Kepulauan Kangean, the Madura, the Raas and the Raja. In Sumatra, the province of Aceh has 119 islands; the province of North Sumatra has 419 islands; and the Province of Riau has about 3,200 islands.
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