Bali Profile

Bali Frofile
The province of Bali is comprised of several islands. The largest island is Bali, and the smaller islands are Nusa Penida, Nusa Ceningan, Nusa Lembongan, and Serangan islands, as well as Menjangan islands. The island of Bali covers an area of 5,632.86 square kilometers with a population of 3,021,247. These averages are out of inhabitants per km2.

On the western side of Bali, which is separated by the Bali strait, is the province of East Java, and on the eastern side is Lombok island, across the Lombok strait. Administratively, the Province of Bali is divided into 9 districts (8 regencies and 1 municipality), 51 sub districts, 565 villa, 79 local political districts.

Geographically, the Province of Bali is located 80 - 30°; - 40" to 80 - 50°; - 48" south of the Equator and 1140 - 25°; - 53" to 1150 - 42°; - 40" east longitude.

The relief and topography of Bali have their main features of a mountain range that transverse the islands from West to East. Among those mountains are two of significant sizes : the volcanoes of Gunung Agung (3.140 m) and the Gunung Batur (1.717 m).

As well as these features, Bali also has four lakes : lake Beratan (375,6 Ha), Lake Buyan (336 Ha), Lake Tamblingan (11 Ha) and Lake Batur (1.607,5 Ha). Rivers, which have their sources on this lakes, as well as forests, flow to the southern side of the island. Such rivers are; Unda , Petanu, Ayung, Pulukan, Loloan, and many others.