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| While still conducting their conquest of the Philippines, the Japanese began an offensive against the Netherlands East Indies. As they progressed southward, the U.S. attempted to assist the Dutch and sent to Java all the Army Air Force airplanes it could muster, from there, they carried out bombing attacks extending from the Malay Peninsula eastward to the Celebes but with such a token force, its efforts did little to stem the Japanese. Celebes fell in January 1942. | |
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1. Dependency status: one of the main islands of Indonesia 2. Government type: republic (Indonesia) 3. Location: The island is surrounded in the west by Borneo, the north by the Philippines, east by Maluku, and to the south by Flores and Timor 4. Border Countries: none (island) 5. Climate: ropical; hot, humid; more moderate in highlands6. Terrain: The island has a distinctive shape, dominated four large peninsulas (see Sulawesi peninsulas). The central part of the island is ruggedly mountainous, such that the island's peninsulas have traditionally been remote from each other, with better connections by sea than by road. 7. Area: 174,600 km2 8. Capital: Makassar (1.25 million)9. Administrative divisions: The island is subdivided into six provinces: Gorontalo, West Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, and North Sulawesi. 10. Population: 12,600,000 inhabitians (1989) 11. Languages: Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects, the most widely spoken of which is Javanese 12. Religions: Muslim 13. Currency: Indonesian rupiah (IDR) |
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