100 Questions on Indonesian Geography - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Tourism makes up 80% of the economy of this Hindu-majority island	Bali	100%
Capital and largest city	Jakarta	100%
World's most populous island	Java	100%
Only province where Sharia law is implemented and enforced	Aceh	80%
Biggest city of that island	Denpasar	80%
National currency	Indonesian Rupiah	80%
Indonesian name of Borneo	Kalimantan	80%
National park home to the world’s largest lizard species	Komodo National Park	80%
Country's second most populous city, nicknamed 'City of Heroes'	Surabaya	80%
Country's third largest city where a famous conference between non-aligned countries was held in 1955, at the height of the Cold War	Bandung	73%
Largest Buddhist temple in the world	Borobudur	73%
Airline and flag carrier of the country	Garuda Indonesia	73%
Largest city of Indonesian Papua, located only 35 km west of Papua New Guinea	Jayapura	73%
World's largest volcanic lake and country's largest lake, by both area and volume	Lake Toba	73%
Second largest Hindu temple in Southeast Asia located close to the previous answer	Prambanan	73%
Language mostly spoken in western Java. With 35 million speakers, it is the second most widely spoken regional language	Sundanese	73%
Built at the confluence of the Deli and Babura River, this city has been listed by the National Development Planning Agency as one of the four main central cities in Indonesia	Medan	67%
Volcano on the island of Sumbawa whose 1815 explosion is considered the largest and most-destructive volcanic event in recorded history, causing the world's average temperature to drop by as much as 3°C. This led to the year 1816 being called the “year without a summer" as crop failures in Europe and North America led to mass starvation	Mount Tambora	67%
Located off Jakarta's coast, this touristic archipelago made up of 342 islands is the smallest regency by area in the country. Do not trust its name!	Thousand Islands	67%
Named after one of the four cardinal directions in Malay, Indonesia shares this island with another country	Timor	67%
Last remaining Sultanate of Indonesia, its sultan is officially recognized by the national government	Yogyakarta Sultanate	67%
Most populous city of the Riau Islands	Batam	60%
Sulawesi's largest city that gave its name to the strait separating the island from Borneo	Makassar	60%
One of the country's most populous cities, with a Christian-majority population and served by the Sam Ratulangi International Airport	Manado	60%
Planned city set to be inaugurated as Indonesia's new capital in 2028	Nusantara	60%
That province's most populous city	Banda Aceh	53%
Archipelago comprising 2 main islands and many smaller islets lying between Borneo and Sumatra, accounting for 90% of Indonesia's tin production	Bangka Belitung Islands	53%
Coastal city sometimes referred to as the 'Venice of Java' for its extensive network of canals running through it and renowned for its preserved colonial-era city center as well as its prestigious universities	Semarang	53%
North Maluku's largest island	Halmahera	47%
Located at the epicenter of the Coral Triangle, this archipelago of over 1,500 islands in Southwest Papua was designated as an UNESCO biosphere reserve and offers some of the country's best sights	Raja Ampat	47%
Top palm oil producing province. It also has the largest planted area of oil palms, with 2.87 million hectares	Riau	47%
Capital and largest city of the province of Maluku, located on an island of the same name.	Ambon	40%
One of the 4 seas bordering the Maluku islands, which takes its name from a group of ten volcanic islands that were, until the mid-19th century, the world's only source of mace and nutmeg	Banda Sea	40%
West Sumatra's third largest and once nicknamed 'Paris of Sumatra', this city was home to the exiled emergency government during the country's war for independence	Bukittinggi	40%
Island of the Lesser Sunda Islands where a distinct human species used to live until 50,000 years ago, known for their small size (just over 1 meter) and nicknamed 'Hobbits' by their discoverers	Flores Island	40%
Name for predominantly rural Level 2 administrative subdivisions (Indonesian name required)	Kabupaten	40%
Largest river of the country, the city mentioned above sits on its delta	Kapuas River	40%
Name for Level 3 administrative subdivisions (Indonesian name required)	Kecamatan	40%
Name for predominantly urban Level 2 administrative subdivisions (Indonesian name required)	Kota	40%
Second-highest volcano in the country, located on the island of Lombok	Mount Rinjani	40%
Largest city of that archipelago and regency	Pangkalpinang	40%
Also named Equatorial City due to being located precisely on the equator, this city is one of Borneo's largest	Pontianak	40%
Country's highest mountain peak	Puncak Jaya	40%
Based in a neighbouring city and taking the name of Sunanate, this monarchy still endures to this day albeit stripped of its former political power, unlike the previous answer	Surakarta Sunanate	40%
Located on a small island sharing the same name, this city is North Maluku's most populous. From the 15th to the 20th century, it acted as the capital of a Sultanate which, at its greatest extent, stretched from Sumbawa to the south of Mindanao	Ternate	40%
Most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, along with Makassarese and Torajan	Bugis	33%
Generic term designating the Austronesian ethnic groups of Borneo. Divided into more than 450 subcultures, this large group accounts for around 2 million people in Indonesian Borneo	Dayak people	33%
East Kalimantan's capital city, located on the riverbanks of that river	Samarinda	33%
Major city of around 250,000 inhabitants. 45% of the population is estimated to be of Chinese descent. Hakka Chinese is commonly spoken in the city, even among other ethnicities	Singkawang	33%
Fictional line separating the Indomalayan biogeographic realm from the Australasian biogeographic realm, splitting Indonesia into two ecozones	Wallace Line	33%
Mountain range spanning the whole length of Sumatra, almost 1,700 km, covering the western side of the island from south to north	Barisan Mountains	27%
Derived from Jakarta's colonial name, Batavia, this term designates one of the most recently-formed ethnic groups of the country, native to this city and its surroundings. Their language, a Malay-based creole language of the same name, has become today one of the main sources of inspiration for Indonesian slang	Betawi people	27%
Large bay in northern Indonesian Papua, its name is Indonesian for 'Bird of Paradise'	Cenderawasih Bay	27%
High volcanic plain in Central Java forming the floor of a large caldera complex of the same name, known for its cool climate and 8th-9th century Hindu temples	Dieng Plateau	27%
String of three small but touristic islands off Lombok's west coast, with a redundant name	Gili Islands (gili means 'island' in sasak, Lombok's main language)	27%
Largest mud volcano in the world, located in East Java, which has, since its first eruption in 2006, caused the displacement of more than 40,000 people, destroyed 15 villages and caused nearly $3 billion in damage	Lusi mud volcano	27%
Large square in the center of Jakarta measuring around 100 hectares, it is the world's 3rd largest square. The National Monument stands in the middle of it	Merdeka Square	27%
Located between peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak, this regency made up of 272 islands constitutes the northernmost part of the Riau Islands	Natuna Regency	27%
Island off Sumatra's west coast famous for its unique culture, sometimes referred to as one of the world's few remaining Megalithic cultures, and its popular surfing spots	Nias Island	27%
Northernmost and least populated city, located less than 200 km away from India's Nicobar Islands	Sabang	27%
Capital city of the province of North Maluku	Sofifi	27%
One of the 5 districts of North Jakarta, it hosts a harbour of the same name which is Indonesia's busiest, handling more than 50% of Indonesia's trans-shipment cargo traffic	Tanjung Priok	27%
Tolled expressway spanning the entire island of Java, from the Port of Merak on its west coast to Banyuwangi on its east coast	Trans-Java Toll Road	27%
Indonesia's first national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Banten containing the largest population of the Critically Endangered Javan rhino	Ujung Kulon National Park	27%
South Papua's largest island, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait	Yos Sudarso Island	27%
Sea lying southwest of that island, spanning over 1,000,000 km² and bordered by Australia's northern coast to the south	Arafura Sea	20%
Peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea. Sorong, West Papua's second largest city lies on its western edge	Bird's Head Peninsula	20%
World's second-largest gold mine, located only 4 km west of it	Grasberg mine	20%
Indonesia's most Christian province, by percentage of the population	Highland Papua	20%
Named after Sumatra's second-highest peak, this ecosystem is considered to be one of the richest expanses of tropical rain forest in Southeast Asia and is the last place on earth where the Sumatran elephant, rhino, tiger and orangutan are found within one area	Leuser Ecosystem	20%
Longest river in East Kalimantan, with a fan-shaped delta	Mahakam River	20%
Spanning over 45,000 km², this regency in South Papua is the country's largest by land area	Merauke Regency	20%
Standing at 3,805 metres above sea level, this volcano is the highest volcano in Indonesia and is Sumatra's highest peak	Mount Kerinci	20%
Sumatra's second-longest river, its mouth was the site of an aviation disaster that killed 104 in 1997	Musi River	20%
Spanning 5.4 km, this bridge is the longest in the country and one of the longest in the Southern Hemisphere. It connects the islands of Java and Madura	Suramadu Bridge	20%
The largest island of that bay, theater of a major battle between American and Japanese forces during the Pacific War	Biak Island	13%
Largest, by land area, island of the Riau Islands	Bintan Island	13%
Marine national park off the coast of North Sulawesi that is said to host more than 70% of all the known fish species of the Indo-Western Pacific	Bunaken National Park	13%
Aceh city located on the shores of the Strait of Malacca. The Arun gas field, described as 'the most lucrative LNG operation in the 20th century' is located a few kilometers off the coast of this city	Lhokseumawe	13%
Archipelago off Sumatra's west coast located in one of the most seismically active zones in the world and home to more than 20 endemic species	Mentawai Islands	13%
Peninsula divided into North Sulawesi, Gorontalo and parts of Central Sulawesi that takes its name from the main ethnic group native to this region.	Minahasa Peninsula	13%
Largest island of that regency	Natuna Besar	13%
Small island of the Lesser Sunda, with Ba'a for capital it is the southernmost of the inhabited islands of Indonesia	Rote Island	13%
Medium-sized city in West Sumatra known as the site for the oldest coal mine in Southeast Asia which got classified as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019. After the closure of some mining sites, the city nearly became a ghost town	Sawahlunto	13%
Bay that separates the two aforementioned peninsulas named after a town lying on its northern shore	Bintuni Bay	7%
Gulf dividing the South and Southeast peninsulas of Sulawesi. It takes its name from a former Sultanate of South Sulawesi, now a regency's name of which Watampone is the capital	Gulf of Boni	7%
Mountain range extending over 692 km in the provinces of Central Papua and Highland Papua where you can find that mine	Maoke Mountains	7%
Another river of the same name originates in this mountain range at the center of Borneo	Müller Mountains	7%
Island southeast off Sulawesi where the oldest cave paintings in the world were found in 2026, dating back at least 67,800 years	Muna Island	7%
Much less known, this peak is the second highest freestanding mountain in the country	Puncak Mandala	7%
Sea of over 100,000 km² surrounded by the islands of Sumba, Timor and Flores	Savu Sea	7%
Smaller peninsula immediately south of it, with Fakfak as its largest settlement	Bomberai Peninsula	0%
Largest settlement by population and home to the only airport of the Aru Islands, the easternmost archipelago of the Maluku Province	Dobo	0%
Chain of small islands off the west coast of Indonesian Borneo that have given their name to the neighbouring strait linking the Java Sea to the South China Sea. The largest island of this archipelago has been classified as a nature reserve by the government	Karimata Islands	0%
Lake in South Sulawesi. With a depth of 590 m it is the deepest lake of the country, the 11th deepest lake in the world and the deepest lake on an island	Lake Matano	0%
Largest lake of Sulawesi and Indonesia's second-largest, its mineral-rich surroundings support one of the most biodiverse tropical forests in the world	Lake Towuti	0%
Karst area of 4,500 hectares in South Sulawesi, this UNESCO World Heritage Tentative Site is located 30 km north of Makassar and contains at least 238 prehistoric cave sites, among which 187 host cave drawings or rock images	Maros Pangkep Geopark	0%
With around 25,000 inhabitants, this regency in Papua is the country's least populous	Supiori Regency	0%
Regency and archipelago of North Sulawesi comprising the island of Miangas which lies 87 km south of Mindanao and is Eastern Indonesia's northernmost point	Talaud Islands	0%
Largest settlement on Sumba island	Waingapu	0%

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