The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. It was divided into three governorates, namely the

Great East The Great East ( nl, Groote Oost) was a governorate (''gouvernement'') of the Dutch East Indies between 1938 and 1946. It comprised all the islands to the east of Borneo (Celebes, the Moluccas, and West New Guinea, with their offshore islands) an ...

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and ea ...

( Kalimantan) and Sumatra, and into three provinces in

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mos ...

. Provinces and governorates were further divided into residencies. Residencies under the provinces were divided into regencies ( nl, regentschappen), and residencies under governorates were divided into departments ( nl, Afdeelingen, modern spelling ) and then further into ., sourced from from the earlier volume The following list is the divisions of the Dutch East Indies in 1942, prior to the Japanese occupation in World War 2.

Governorate of Sumatra

In 1938, all of the various Residencies and Gouvernements in Sumatra were reorganized under the new Gouvernement of Sumatra.

Java

comprised three provinces, West, Middle and East Java, the boundaries of which were similar to the island's pre-2000 boundaries.

West Java

Under control of Governorate of West-Java (Gouvernement West-Java)

Central Java

Under control of Governorate of Middle Java (Gouvernement Midden-Java):

East Java

Under control of Governorate of East Java (Gouvernement Oost-Java):

Borneo

In 1938 both of these Residencies were again united in a Governorate of Borneo (Gouvernement van Borneo) with its capital at

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The Great East

The governorate of the

(Dutch: 'Gouvernement Groote Oost') was created in 1938. It comprised the islands to the east of Borneo and Java, including the Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, Maluku and

Western New Guinea Western New Guinea, also known as Papua, Indonesian New Guinea, or Indonesian Papua, is the western half of the Melanesian island of New Guinea which is administered by Indonesia. Since the island is alternatively named as Papua, the region ...

Lesser Sunda Islands

Sulawesi

Maluku and Western New Guinea

In 1922 with the dissolution of to , was renamed to . In 1935 the was renamed to Governorate of the Moluccas until the creation of in 1938, in which became again.

Vorstenlanden

Vorstenlanden The VorstenlandenEncarta-encyclopedie Winkler Prins (1993–2002) s.v. "Vorstenlanden". Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum. ( Dutch for 'princely lands' or 'princely states', ) were four native, princely states on the island of Java in the coloni ...

were four native states on the island of

in the

Netherlands Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

that were nominally self-governing under suzerainty of the

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. Their political autonomy was however severely constrained by treaties and settlements. Two of them were the Governorate of Djokjakarta and the Governorate of Soerakarta, which controlled the and the of Soerakarta and Klaten respectively.

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