Republic of Indonesia

since 1945 · up to 2,041 thousand km² · Asia

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Capital: Jakarta (1945–1946), Yogyakarta (1946–1948), Bukittinggi (1948–1950), Jakarta (1950–…)

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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Predecessors: Dutch East Indies, United States of Indonesia, Bone Sultanate, Tasik

Events on its territory

1955 Bandung Conference
c. 1976 Last traces of the Javan tiger