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Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

Canada

Canada's coastline is about 202,000 km, more than the next several countries put together, because of the enormous fractal fringe of the Arctic archipelago. Indonesia, second, is about 55,000 km.

Which country has the most islands?

Sweden, with over 260,000

Sweden counts about 267,000 islands, most of them tiny uninhabited rocks in its lakes and archipelagos. Indonesia's 17,000-odd islands are far larger and far more populated.

Which island has the most people living on it?

Java

Java holds about 155 million people on roughly 130,000 km2, more than half of Indonesia's population on about 7 percent of its land. Honshu, second, is around 100 million.

Which country has the most active volcanoes?

Indonesia

Indonesia has roughly 130 active volcanoes, sitting where three tectonic plates meet along the Ring of Fire. Its 1815 Tambora eruption caused a year without a summer in Europe.

Which country moved its capital in 2024 to a purpose-built city called Nusantara?

Indonesia

Jakarta is sinking (parts by over 10 cm a year) and is badly congested, so Indonesia began relocating its capital to Nusantara on Borneo. Egypt, Kazakhstan and Nigeria all made similar moves earlier.

Which island is divided between three countries?

Borneo

Borneo is shared by Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. It is the only island split three ways between sovereign states. Hispaniola is shared by two, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Which country has the most species of bird?

Colombia

Colombia records around 1,900 bird species (roughly a fifth of the world's total) thanks to Andean altitude ranges meeting Amazon, Pacific and Caribbean habitats.

The Wallace Line, running through Indonesia, separates what?

Asian and Australian wildlife

On Bali the fauna is Asian; on Lombok, about 35 km away, it is Australasian. Deep water kept the two apart even when sea levels fell and joined the surrounding islands.