Karimunjawa
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Karimunjawa Islands or Karimunjava Islands () is an archipelago of 27 islands in the Java Sea, Indonesia, approximately 80 kilometres northwest of Jepara. They have a total land area of 45.62 km2. The main island is known as Karimun (2,700 ha), while the second-largest island is Kemujan (1,400 ha).
Key facts
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
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- Regency
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- District
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- Village
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Central Java
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Jepara
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- Karimunjawa
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- 5
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- District Head
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- Budi Krisnanto
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 45.62
- Settlement.population_total
- 10800
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- mid 2024 estimate
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- auto
- Settlement.website
- www.karimunjawa.go.id
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- WIB
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- +7
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- Karimunjawa Islands
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archipelago
- Has part
- Kemujan Island
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- Central Java
- Area
- 71.2
- Body of water
- Java Sea
- Official website
- karimunjawa.jepara.go.id
- Image
- Karimunjawa 2019-09-13 Landsat 8 T1 TOA.jpeg
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- Karimunjawa
- name
- Karimoendjowo
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Islands and administration
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- Economy
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Karimunjawa Islands or Karimunjava Islands () is an archipelago of 27 islands in the Java Sea, Indonesia, approximately 80 kilometres northwest of Jepara. They have a total land area of 45.62 km2. The main island is known as Karimun (2,700 ha), while the second-largest island is Kemujan (1,400 ha).
As of the 2020 Census, the population of the island group was 9,789 which lived on five of the islands. The official estimate as at mid 2024 was 10,800. The population is largely Javanese, with pockets of Bugis and Madurese inhabitants. Javanese culture is dominant in the islands which are the only islands off Java where Javanese is the lingua franca.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karimunjawa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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