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indonesia

UK/ˌɪndəˈniːʒə/US/ˌɪndəˈniʒə/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,712 of 15,258mostly written

Indonesia is the Asian country made of seventeen thousand islands, including Bali. Travel to Indonesia, eastern Indonesia, the president of Indonesia.

It is the fourth most populous country in the world and has more Muslims than any other, though it is not an Islamic state. It sits on the ring of fire and has more active volcanoes than anywhere. Over seven hundred languages are spoken there.

Definitions of indonesia

  1. 1nounindonesiaA country of islands in south-east Asia.B1+

    “Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is on the island of Java.”

indonesia is a country.

Where it comes from

Indonesia (late nineteenth century) Attested circa 1850, composed of Ἰνδός + νῆσος; initially, in competition with Insulinde, of the same meaning, lexically constructed on a Latin basis, or in reference to the East Indies archipelago.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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