Question

Which one of the following land territories of Indonesia is not touched by the Equator?
A) Sumatra
B) Sulawesi
C) Java
D) Kalimantan

Answer 1

Hint: Equator word is derived from the medieval Latin word, equator which means a circle that equalizes day and night. It is the imaginary line that divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.

Complete answer:
Java is one of the following land territories of Indonesia that is not touched by the Equator.
The Equator does not pass through Indonesia's Java island. It is an important economic region of Indonesia, located in the Malay Archipelago.

Indonesia is a Southeast Asian archipelago country sandwiched between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is strategically placed on or near key maritime lanes that connect East Asia, South Asia, and Oceania. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago. Indonesia's different regional cultures have been shaped by millennia of complicated interactions with its physical environment, though not particularly determined.

Indonesia is an archipelago that stretches 5,120 kilometres (3,181 miles) east to west and 1,760 kilometres (1,094 miles) north to south. Indonesia contains 13,466 islands, according to a geospatial survey undertaken by the National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping (Bakosurtanal) between 2007 and 2010. Indonesia contains 18,307 islands, according to a 2002 survey undertaken by the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN).

Java is one of the following land territories of Indonesia that is not touched by the Equator. Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: There are 17,508 islands, according to the CIA World Factbook. The disparity between the surveys is most likely due to older survey methods that included tidal islands, sandy cays, and stony reefs that surface at low tide and are submerged at high tide.