Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands stretching across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, making it the largest archipelago-based country on Earth by island count and one of the largest by combined coastline. Only about 6,000 of its islands are permanently inhabited.
Record no. MRB-2026-005719
World's Largest Archipelagic Country
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