Q 01/05

Roughly how many islands does Indonesia consist of?

A) About 17,000

B) About 27,000

C) About 40,000

D) About 7,000

Answer · why

A) About 17,000

Only a fraction of them are inhabited, and the total stretches more than 5,000 km from Sumatra in the west to New Guinea in the east.

Q 02/05

Where does Indonesia rank among the world's countries by population?

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Sixth

Answer · why

B) Fourth

Only India, China and the United States have more people, and no country has more Muslims.

Q 03/05

More than half of all Indonesians live on which single island?

A) Sulawesi

B) Sumatra

C) Java

D) Borneo

Answer · why

C) Java

It packs roughly 56% of the country's population into about 7% of its land area, making it the most crowded large island on Earth.

Q 04/05

How many provinces did Indonesia have after the 2022 split of the Papua region?

A) 27

B) 33

C) 34

D) 38

Answer · why

D) 38

The count jumped from 34 in 2022 when four new provinces were carved out of the Papua region.

Q 05/05

Indonesia's highest peak, Puncak Jaya, is better known to mountaineers by what name?

A) Carstensz Pyramid

B) Mount Kinabalu

C) Mount Rinjani

D) Mount Semeru

Answer · why

A) Carstensz Pyramid

At 4,884 m it is the tallest island peak on Earth and the Oceania entry on most Seven Summits lists, and it still carries a shrinking equatorial glaci...