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East Nusa Tenggara (Indonesian: Nusa Tenggara Timur) is the southernmost province of Indonesia.It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the north.
The official languages of Timor-Leste are Tetum and Portuguese, while in West Timor it is Indonesian, although Uab Meto is the local Atoni language spoken throughout Kupang, South Central Timur and North Central Timur Regencies. Indonesian, a standardized dialect of Malay, is also widely spoken and understood in Timor-Leste.
During the last stages of the Dutch colonial era, the area east of Java and Kalimantan was known as the Great East and later known as Eastern Indonesia. After Denpasar Conference , on 24 December 1946, the State of East Indonesia was formed covering the same area, excluding Western New Guinea , previously included during Malino Conference .
This is a list of some of the regions of Indonesia. Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. At different times of Indonesia 's history, the nation has been designated as having regions that do not necessarily correlate to the current ...
West Timor is one of the few areas in Indonesia that is mainly inhabited by Christians today. Similar to Timor-Leste, Christianity is the religion of the overwhelming majority (94.8%) of the people of West Timor, 54.1% being Protestant and 40.7% being Catholic.
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).
Kupang (Indonesian: Kota Kupang, Indonesian pronunciation:), formerly known as Koepang or Coupang, is the capital of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara.At the 2020 Census, it had a population of 442,758; [4] the official estimate as of mid-2023 was 444,661. [2]
The Riau Islands is one of the country's most prosperous provinces, having a GDP per capita of Rp 72,571,750 (US$8,300.82) as of 2011, the fourth highest among all provinces in Indonesia after East Kalimantan, Jakarta and Riau. [10]