Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia ranks 80th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Cameroon, Philippines, and Ecuador. Memorable people born in present day Indonesia include Sukarno, Suharto, and Willem Einthoven. Memorable people who died in Indonesia include Abel Tasman, Sukarno, and Suharto. Indonesia has been the birth place of many politicians and badminton players and the death place of many politicians and explorers.

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres. With over 275 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Read more on Wikipedia