Geography
Indonesia lies between latitudes
11°S and
6°N, and longitudes
95°E and
141°E. It consists of 17,508 islands, about 6,000 of which are inhabited.
These are scattered over both sides of the
equator. The largest are Java, Sumatra,
Borneo (shared with Brunei and Malaysia), New Guinea (shared with Papua New Guinea), and Sulawesi. Indonesia shares land borders with Malaysia on Borneo, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea, and East Timor on the island of
Timor. Indonesia shares maritime borders across narrow straits with Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines to the north, and with Australia to the south. The capital, Jakarta, is on Java and is the nation's largest city, followed by Surabaya, Bandung, Medan, and Semarang.