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    Indonesia is a big country.it lies between two continents, Asia and Australia,and between two oceans, the pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. it is the largest archipelago in the world. There are more than seventeen thousand islands in Indonesia.

    We have a lot of islands. The big ones are Papua, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Java. Java is the smallest, but it is the most populated one. We can find people from around Indonesia in Java.

    Indonesia is on the equator. It is a tropical country. The sun shines brightly every day, so it is mostly hot. It has two seasons,rainy and dry seasons.

    There are many seas in indonesia, the java, bali, arafuru, banda, timor and many other seas. We also have many straits, like the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, the Lombok Strait between Bali and Lombok, and many others.

    Indonesia also has many mountains. Many of them are still active and can erupt at any time. We call them volcanoes, like Sinabung and Marapi in Sumatra, Merapi in Java and Lokon in South Sulawesi. When they erupt, they emit very hot lava from underground.

Why is Indonesia called as the largest archipelago in the world? Because ....