24 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage
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Berbak National Park © cifor.org – James Maiden/cc-by-sa-2.0
Sumatra is a large island in western
Indonesia that is part of the
Sunda Islands. It is the largest island that is located entirely in Indonesia (after
Borneo, which is shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the
sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km² (not including adjacent islands such as the Riau Islands and Bangka Belitung Islands). The
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra site was inscribed as a
UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. The 25,951 km² area of the World Heritage Site includes the National Parks
Gunung Leuser,
Kerinci Seblat and
Bukit Barisan Selatan.
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20 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks, UNESCO World Heritage
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Borobudur, the world’s largest Buddist temple © Gunawan Kartapranata/cc-by-sa-3.0
Indonesia is a country in
Southeast Asia, between the
Indian and
Pacific oceans. It is the world’s largest
island country, with more than
seventeen thousand islands, and at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358
square miles), the 14th largest by land area and the 7th largest in combined sea and land area. With over 261 million people, it is the world’s
4th most populous country as well as the most populous
Muslim-majority country.
Java, the world’s
most populous island, contains more than half of the country’s population.
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