As human beings, we all need a place to live. What place suitable for us? Its not watering area or nor in the open air. We need a land to live. Human needs a good land to farming or if the land not fertile, we can do another way to explore the land. In different case, a land maybe have a rich mineral materials like coals, irons, gas or fossil fuels from deep of the earth.
The history shows us that many good places in the world or major cities located near a big river or seaside. This place good for fisheries and do international trade activities by water transportation. Some places not in the vast or wide land like America, Australia or Africa continent.
As we know, Indonesia is an archipelago country, Indonesia has so much islands. We can imagine, more over 17.000 islands. This chain of islands stretches around 3,500 miles, about the distance from New York to San Francisco. Indonesia is well-known as a largest archipelago country in the world.
Some Indonesian islands are among the largest on earth. The island of Papua (former Irian Jaya), part of which belongs to the nation of Indonesia, is the second largest island on earth. Another island that belongs partly to Indonesia, Kalimantan (former Borneo), is the third largest island on earth. The Indonesian island of Sumatera is the sixth largest on earth, Sulawesi (former Celebes) is the 11th largest, and Java is the 13th largest!
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