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Can you locate all 34 provinces of Vietnam?
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Indonesia has 38 provinces, and most maps of it still show 34. Four new ones were created on the island of New Guinea in 2022, which is recent enough that a great deal of what is printed, taught and drawn is the older map. This page is all of them, grouped by island the way the game groups them, and what tells you which one you are in.
A provinsi is the top tier of Indonesian government. Each has an elected governor and a provincial legislature, and below it sit the kabupaten and kota, regencies and cities, which run most of what people deal with day to day. Two of the 38 are not ordinary provinces. Jakarta is a special capital region, written DKI Jakarta, and Yogyakarta is a special region, written DI Yogyakarta, because its sultan is its hereditary governor. Aceh has its own special autonomy too, with sharia courts alongside the national ones.
The number that matters is 38. For a decade Indonesia had 34. In 2022 the parliament split Papua into four more, in three steps over a year:
What is left of Papua is the north coast and its hinterland around Jayapura. A map without Papua Pegunungan on it is a map from before 2022.
The traps are in the names. Papua Barat is not the whole west of the island. It is the eastern half of the Bird's Head and the coast below it, around Manokwari, with Papua Barat Daya cut from its western end around Sorong, and Papua itself is now only the north coast. Sumatera Barat is West Sumatra, a coastal province around Padang, while Jawa Barat is West Java, the most populous province in the country, and the two are as far apart as the names are alike. Riau and Kepulauan Riau are neighbours on the same strait: Riau is the mainland coast of Sumatra, and Kepulauan Riau is the islands off it.
Each group can be switched on and off on its own in the start dialog. Java and Bali and Nusa Tenggara are an evening each. Papua is the one most players have to relearn, since three of its six provinces are younger than most of the maps they learned it from.
Papua Pegunungan, the highlands province, around Wamena and the Baliem Valley. It is the only Indonesian province with no sea on it, which on this map makes it the block in the middle of New Guinea surrounded by its new siblings, and it is the answer to most questions about the interior of the island.
DKI Jakarta: the capital region, on the north coast of Java, and the smallest province on the map by a wide margin. It is a few pixels across with the whole archipelago in view, so it has a tap area to be clickable at all, and it sits inside Banten and West Java, which both reach the sea on either side of it.
Kepulauan Riau: over a hundred inhabited and uninhabited islands between Sumatra, Borneo and Singapore, with Batam and Bintan the two that matter. Its land is a small fraction of a province that covers most of the South China Sea approaches, so the game draws only the islands and gives them a tap area.
38, since November 2022. Indonesia had 34 for about a decade before that. Papua was split into Papua, Papua Tengah, Papua Pegunungan and Papua Selatan, and Papua Barat was split to make Papua Barat Daya, all in 2022.
Papua Selatan, Papua Tengah and Papua Pegunungan were established in June 2022, and Papua Barat Daya followed in November of the same year. All four are on the island of New Guinea.
By land, Kalimantan Tengah is the largest, with Kalimantan Barat, Kalimantan Timur and Papua Selatan next. The smallest is DKI Jakarta, then Yogyakarta and Bali. By population West Java is the largest by a wide margin, with more people than most countries.
A province is the top tier, run by a governor. A kabupaten, regency, or kota, city, is the tier below it, run by a bupati or a wali kota. Every province is made up of regencies and cities, and the regencies are the level that does most of the day to day governing.
Jakarta is the national capital, so it is run as a special capital region, DKI Jakarta, rather than as an ordinary province. Yogyakarta kept its sultanate when Indonesia became independent, and the sultan is the hereditary governor of the special region, DI Yogyakarta, which is the only province governed that way.
Riau and Kepulauan Riau, which share a name and a strait, and the three Papuan names that start with Papua and differ only by a word. West Sumatra and West Java also get swapped by players who read the compass word and forget the island.
More administrative maps in the region: Indonesia Regencies, Philippines Provinces, Thailand Provinces, Vietnam Provinces, India States and Japan Prefectures.
