Bali (Bali, also translated as Bali), Bali provincial administration as it is one of 33 administrative regions in Indonesia, is one of the famous tourist destination. Bali from Jakarta, the capital, more than 1,000 km, and the island of Java, only 3.2 km wide Strait between the separated area of more than 5630 square kilometers, population about 315 million. Bali provincial capital located on the southern island of Dan Pasha. Geography Terrain Most of the mountainous island, lying east to west is low, there are four or more cone-shaped volcanic peaks, of which the volcano Agung (Bali) 3142 meters above sea level, the highest point of the island; also still active on the live Batur volcano. Climate The island is located in the tropical climate is tropical wet and dry season, very distinct wet and dry season, rainy season (October to next March), the northwest monsoon winds, the dry season (April to September), the south-east monsoon is blowing. (The monsoon pattern this makes it difficult to marine traffic, contact with the outside world is not easy to Bali one of the reasons why there is an independent historical development.) During the dry season, precipitation in the north and east are often inadequate, in addition to the rainy season may be a whole the days are no rainfall, there may be two to three hours of the squall, and sometimes cause rainfall event over the road more than 30 cm water. Most of Bali, the temperature did not change throughout the year, the lowest average temperature of about 24 degrees, the highest average temperature of about 31 degrees, the average humidity is about 78%. Mostly hot and humid weather, high apparent temperature. Traffic Outside the island transport links Bali and the island mainly depends on the traffic interface to pull the company of the International Airport (also known as Bali International Airport), located in southern Bali, the main link to Jakarta, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities all over. In addition to international routes, domestic routes but also access to other islands in Indonesia. Sea transport is based on the ferry connecting the island of Java, Lombok and other islands in Indonesia. Traffic island Bali, there is no rail facilities, so most of the mode of transportation for the car, the island along the coast of the island's north-south road and the road leading inland. Connection between the village and the village road quite a bit, so the car is relatively easy passage. Middle-class people below the main mode of transportation for the motorcycle taxi harmony, in addition to some areas also use the carriage travel. As many tourists, the island has many shuttle. In addition, the main tourist attractions in southern, such as Dan Pasha, Kuta (Kuta) and Sanur (Sanur), are driving a taxi, the price is quite low. Life, culture and language While in Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic country among the majority Hindu population of Bali. The land is rich in cultural resources, because many varieties and famous. Bali is Indonesia's classical dance in a folk dance, has a unique position. Elsewhere, the island's carving, weaving is very unique. Another name for Bali and its culture are as varied: a "Island of the gods," "Devil Island", "Paradise Island", "Magic Island", "Island of Flowers" and other nicknames. Language Bali Bali There are many native language, most can be said that modern Balinese Balinese, the Bali and Bahasa Indonesia is the most commonly used language. Bali, Indonesia, the most majority of almost two or three or more can speak the language of Bali as the tourism industry flourished, and English is commonly used in the third local language, is also a major foreign language Balinese. Economy and Tourism Major tourist attractions and tourism industry The beach and resort area in southern Bali's tourism industry, drawing from 1969, Ng Lai International Airport after a large-scale development, Sanur and Kuta become a popular tourist destination; in the 1980s, senior began to Nusa Dua resort development; in the 1990s, a wave of development Coulthard began to develop north-south, from Seminyak (Seminyak), Lei Jian (Legian), Jin Balan (Jimbaran) to the coastal zone, forming the majority of the tourist zone. North of Seminyak is where the famous temple of the sea attractions. Sanur and Kuta in the bombings, the authorities to take positive measures for law and order to remove a number of street vendors. The south coast of Bali, good quality waves, many surfers around the world have visited and become a surfing resort. Recently, many people living by surfing industry to increase, including surf shops and surf instructors, and even sponsored by the professional surfing surfer has also increased.
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Bali (BALI) -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 2007-08-28 I. Overview Bali is a province of Indonesia, from Bali and neighboring islands. Bali is located at longitude 114 ° -116 °, and between latitude 8 ° -9 °, is Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands, an area of 5,637 square kilometers (accounting for 0.29% of the total area of Indonesia), in thousand kilometers east of Jakarta Office . 140 km from east to west across the island, 95 km from north to south, west across the island of Java, Bali Strait, and east Lombok Strait Lombok and white, north and south of the Pro Java Sea and the Indian Ocean, respectively. More mountainous island, only the southern and northern coastal areas there are some narrow ground. Island average temperature between 24-28 ° C. Population 3.42 million (2006 statistics), 93% were Hindus. About 12 million Chinese, more than a dozen types of societies. Capital of Denpasar (Kota Denpasar), located south of the island population of about 464,000, has a modern international airport and the Batang Wu Lala by Pakistan and other international ports. Second, the economic development In 2005, the Bali provincial gross domestic product of about 34 local trillion rupiah. 2004 and 2005 Bali province's GDP grew 4.62% and 5.56%. Tourism is a pillar industry in Bali. October 2002 suffered a serious terrorist bombing attacks, the year 2003, direct foreign tourists visiting Bali, less than one million, to 993,029 passengers, compared with 1,285,844 passengers in 2002 plunged 22.77%. Direct foreign tourists visited in 2005 back to 142 million, mainly from the Asia-Pacific region, accounting for 57.5% of the total, including Japan, Australia and China Taiwan occupies the top three, while tourists from mainland China is 1.7 million. Bali's tourism industry is very significant in boosting the economy in 2005, commercial and hotel food and beverage industry accounted for 29.4% of the total value of local production, transport and communications sector accounted for 11.9%, services 16.2%, 7.1% of the financial leasing industry. Bali 2002, agriculture accounted for 20.77% of the total economy. As the most important tourism province of Indonesia, Bali Province, with local characteristics of foreign trade, wood carvings and other handicrafts are the main export commodities. Import and export volume in 2005 was $ 88,745,000, respectively, and 2.24 billion U.S. dollars, the main export destination is Japan, the United States, Singapore and Australia. In 2006 the amount of 132.6 million U.S. dollars of foreign investment. Third, tourism and cultural resources Bali is Indonesia and the world famous tourist destination, with its beautiful natural and cultural landscape is famous, the "Paradise Island", "Poetry of the island" and reputation. Well-known attractions are the sea temple, Kuta Beach, Uluwatu, Besakih Temple, Kintamani, Agung volcano and so on. Tanah Lot is the most important Hindu temple in Bali, the temple was built in the beach rock, which, on a charming evening at low tide, a large well-known local landscape. Bali is one of Indonesia's cultural treasures, its dance, music, sculpture and painting famous. The most representative dance and lion dance monkey dance. Ubud Arts and cultural village is famous for painting and sculpture. Wood carvings and paintings in the center where you can enjoy local art, local people can watch the live production, purchase wood carving, batik, silver, beads and other crafts. Fourth, the hotel Bali hotel industry is well developed, distinctive, and various grades of hotels spread all over, a total of 1477, including 36 five-star hotels, 29 four-star hotel, focused on the Nusa Dua, Kuta and Jimbaran and other places. V. Communication The transportation is very convenient to Bali, Ngurah Rai International Airport on the island, the United States, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, frequent flights flying to Bali.
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