Java (island)

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Geography

Natural

Java is located in a chain of islands with Kalimantan (Borneo) to the north, Sumatra to the northwest, Bali to the east, Borneo to the northeast and Christmas Island to the south. It is the world's 13th largest island.

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Kalimantan - Borneo - Sumatra - Bali - Christmas Island - World's 13th largest island

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Java is almost entirely of volcanic origin, and contains no fewer than thirty-eight mountains of that conical form which indicates their having at one time or other been active volcanoes. See Volcanoes of Java.

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Volcanic - Volcanoes - Volcanoes of Java

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Human

Java contains the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta. Popular tourist destinations include the city of Yogyakarta, a massive pyramid-like monument to Buddha known as Borobudur, and Prambanan, the largest Hindu temple in Java.

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Indonesia - Jakarta - Yogyakarta - Buddha - Borobudur - Prambanan - Hindu

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Java is also the most densely populated island in Indonesia, with nearly 60% of the overall population of the country residing there http://www.bps.go.id/sector/population/table1.shtml. Since the 1970s the Indonesian government has run transmigration programs aimed at resettling the population of Java on other less-populated islands of Indonesia. This program has met with mixed results, and has been behind many instances of ethnic tension and even violence between the native people and the settlers.

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1970 - Transmigration program - Ethnic tension

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The island is divided into 4 provinces, 1 special region* (daerah istimewa), and 1 special capital city district** (daerah khusus ibukota):

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• Banten
• Jakarta**
• Jawa Barat (West Java)
• Jawa Tengah (Central Java)
• Jawa Timur (East Java)
• Yogyakarta*