Indonesia’s Island Count Keeps Shifting
Indonesia’s island tally refuses to stay still. The country is labelled an archipelago on maps, but its official number of islands has been revised again and again, depending on who counts, how they define an island, and what the sea is doing to the shoreline that day.On paper, the task seems simple: an island is a piece of land surrounded by water and exposed at high tide, a definition rooted in ...More
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