List of islands of Indonesia

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This is a list of islands of Indonesia. Indonesia comprises more than 17,000 islands [1] according to estimates made by the Government of Indonesia, with 922 of those permanently inhabited. The country extends from adjacent the Malay Peninsula in its west and into Melanesia in its east. According to a 2002 survey by National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Indonesia has 18,306 islands. Counting tidal islands (periodically submerged) could be up to double the island figure (no precise figures); many islands have no name or share names, all of which makes tabulation very confusing even to the government of Indonesia. Exact figures should be considered merely "improved estimates" until a definitive study can be conducted.

Management of the islands sometimes includes a regency which covers a small island chain.

On September 21, 2007, an 8.4 earthquake struck Sumatra near South Pagai Island, producing a cluster of six small new islands, and enlarging others by uplift.[2] A large portion of Indonesia is seismically active; the number, size, submergence and emergence and shape of islands continues to evolve.

Map of Indonesia

Contents

[edit] Main islands

[edit] Other islands

[edit] Java

Province of Banten

Province of DKI Jakarta

  • Thousand Islands archipelago (Kepulauan Seribu) 105 islands. Only 11 islands are inhabited.

Province of Central Java

Province of East Java

[edit] Sumatra

[edit] Province of Aceh, 119 islands

[edit] Province of North Sumatra, 419 islands

  • Nias archipelago (Kepulauan Nias)
  • Hinako archipelago (Kepulauan Hinako)

Province of West Sumatra

Province of Lampung

  • Child of Krakatoa (Pulau Anak Krakatau)

Province of Riau

[edit] Province of Riau Islands, about 3,200 islands

Province of Bangka-Belitung Islands

[edit] Kalimantan

Province of East Kalimantan

Province of South Kalimantan

Province of Central Kalimantan

Province of West Kalimantan

[edit] Sulawesi

Province of North Sulawesi

Province of Central Sulawesi

Province of South Sulawesi

[edit] Province of Southeast Sulawesi

[edit] Lesser Sunda Islands

Province of Bali

Province of West Nusa Tenggara

Province of East Nusa Tenggara

[edit] Maluku

[edit] Province of Maluku

Small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea

[edit] The province of North Maluku

[edit] New Guinea

Islands on the west of the main New Guinea island

[edit] Province of West Papua

610 islands, 35 inhabited

North of New Guinea Island:

[edit] Province of Papua

[edit] See also

Indonesia portal

[edit] References

  1. ^ Based on "Seminar Nasional Penetapan Nama Pulau-pulau Kecil Dalam Presektif Sejarah or "National Seminary of Name For Little Islands From History Side", July 16 to 18 at Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, now we know they have a new amount of the islands total, 8,844 that have been named
  2. ^ Southern Sumatra Earthquake in 2007, coastal change, GSI
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[edit] External links

"Indonesia counts its islands before it's too late". Antara. May 17, 2007. http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/5/17/indonesia-counts-its-islands-before-its-too-late/. 

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