Asia
Indonesia
Everything you need to know about Indonesia for geography games and satellite imagery — capital, population, time zone, and how to recognise it from above.
Quick facts
Where is Indonesia?
Satellite view centred on Jakarta (-2.0°, 118.0°).
How to spot Indonesia from satellite imagery
Indonesia is the largest island nation on Earth — more than 17,000 islands strung along the equator from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific, spanning more than 5,000 kilometres east to west across three time zones. From orbit, the country has one of the most distinctive footprints of any nation: a long arc of tropical islands, many of them volcanic, almost all of them green, with characteristic coastline shapes, rice terrace patterns, and visible signs of one of the most active tectonic regions on Earth.
Identifying Indonesia from a satellite frame is usually straightforward once you have studied a few examples. The harder skill is regional disambiguation — telling Java from Sumatra from Sulawesi from Borneo at a glance. This guide walks through both.
Read the full satellite guideCan you find Indonesia from above?
Play satellite-imagery rounds from Indonesia on a 3D globe.
Themed Indonesia modes
Restrict the location pool to Indonesia and pick a theme — volcanoes, capitals, coastlines. Smaller pool, sharper learning curve.