Introducing Indonesia
Indonesian islands extend one eighth
of the way around the Earth
Stretched across the world's largest archipelago, Indonesia is a crescent of more than 17,500 islands. But most of the land's 240 million people live on just five big islands: Java, Sumatra, New Guinea, Borneo, and Sulawesi.
At least 100 different languages are spoken across Indonesia (some say the number is more than 300), and the number of distinct tribal groups is probably even higher. So how did this diverse string of islands gather into the world's fourth most populous nation?
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