Java

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Topography of Java

Java (Indonesian: [Jawa] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is one of the Sunda Islands of Indonesia.

The area is 132,000 square km. It is the world's 13th largest island. Around 140 million people live there, which is half the people in Indonesia and more than on any other island in the world. Most of them speak the Javanese language and many also speak other languages.

The Java Sea is to the north, the Indian Ocean south. The capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, is in Java. The center is an east-west chain of volcanic mountains.

Climate

Most of Java has a tropical monsoon climate (Am in the Koeppen climate classification). The northern coast of the island is low-lying. The soil is fertile, because the island was made by volcanoes. It is an important area for growing crops in Indonesia.

Religion

The majority religion in Java island is Islam. Majority of the Javanese are Muslim and they follow the branch of Sunni Islam.

Gallery

• Straat van soenda.jpg

  Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra

• Mount Bromo at sunrise, showing its volcanoes and Mount Semeru (background).jpg

  Mount Bromo is a volcano

• Old harbour of Jakarta, 2005.jpg

  The old harbour in Jakarta

Java Media

• Bromo yang menakjubkan.jpg

  Mount Bromo in Malang, East Java

• COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De weg van Buitenzorg naar de Preanger Regentschappen TMnr 3728-429c.jpg

  Parahyangan highland near Buitenzorgcode: nl is deprecated (now Bogor, West Java), c. 1865–1872

• Cymbidium dayanum Orchi 04.jpg

  Cymbidium dayanum - typical orchid in Java

• Male Javan rhino shot in 1934 in West Java. Today only small numbers of Javan rhino survive in Ujung Kulon; it is the world's rarest rhino.

• The syntype fossils of Java Man (H. e. erectus), at Naturalis, Leiden

• Ngandong 14. Homo erectus.jpg

  Cast of Skull XI at the Hall of Human Origins, Washington, D.C.

• Sumbing, Java.jpg

  Mount Sumbing surrounded by rice fields. Java's volcanic topography and rich agricultural lands are the fundamental factors in its history.

• Borobudur-Temple-Park Indonesia Stupas-of-Borobudur-04.jpg

  The 9th century Borobudur Buddhist stupa in Central Java

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  "The Champion" (Sang Agul-agul). Sketch of a Javanese soldier leader by Swiss painter J. Schiess (1799–1844), from J.J.X. Pfyffer's 1829 "Sketches from Java," Plate VI. Photo: Leiden Univ. Library. Sources and related content

• Tea plantation in Java during Dutch colonial period, in or before 1936

Related pages

• List of Javanese people

Sources

• Taylor, Jean Gelman (2003). Indonesia: Peoples and Histories. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10518-6.