Indonesia adds more than 1,100 to the official tally of its islands

Mongabay
Jan 12, 2017, 10:03 am120 ptsTrending
JAKARTA — The archipelagic country of Indonesia has revised upward the official count of its islands, from 13,466 to 14,572. The former figure was submitted in 2012 to the last UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. The next conference is scheduled to be held in August of this year.…

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