asia • IDN
Indonesia
Location marker · geographic overview
5° S / 120° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Jakarta
- Population
- 283,487,931 2024
- Area
- 1,904,569 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Indonesian
- Currency
- Indonesian rupiah (IDR)
- Geography
- Island country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Indonesia
Indonesia is a huge tropical archipelago scattered across both sides of the Equator between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One of the world's most ecologically diverse countries, it comprises over 17,000 islands, many of them lush and rainforested, fringed by beaches and dotted with active volcanoes.
Landscape & landmarks
Hardly surprisingly in the world's largest archipelago, beaches are significant attractions. Aside from the obvious like Bali and Lombok, there are wonderful beaches in off-the-beaten-track locations, especially in Maluku, Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi. In a nation of 18,000+ islands, the options are almost endless.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
With 17,000 islands to choose from, Indonesian food is an umbrella term covering a vast variety of regional cuisines found across the nation. But, if used without further qualifiers, the term tends to mean the food originally from the central and eastern parts of the main island Java.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-20. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A few more connections
- National anthem source-listed
- Indonesia Raya Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.
A little more to discover +
- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- South-Eastern Asia
- Calling code
- +62
- Internet domain
- .id
- Land border codes
- TLS, MYS, PNG
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .id. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.