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C. With more than 22 million people, the New York metropolitan are is the eighth most populous in the world and the largest outside of Asia. With more than 40 million people the Tokyo-Yokohama area is the most populous in the world. As Jakarta sucks out ground water for its growing population, it is sinking about 10 inches a year and almost half the city is now below sea level.
A. Brazil ranks fifth with 210 million people, compared with the 268 million people on Indonesia’s more than 17,000 islands. China has the largest population with nearly 1.4 billion people, followed by India with more than 1.3 billion and the United States with more than 329 million people.
D. Indonesia’s location on the edges of the three plates makes it the site of 150 active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Past volcanic eruptions have caused global climate changes and famines, including one prehistoric eruption believed to have killed most of humanity.
D. In addition to the planned capitals of Canberra, Australia, Brasilia, Brazil, and Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Nigeria built Abuja and Pakistan built Islamabad to serve as their capital cities. It could take up to a decade to build Indonesia’s new capital city.