East Timor ... This article is about the current country. For the former Indonesian province, see East Timor (province). East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, ...
Timor-Leste
Country in Asia
Timor-Leste, or East Timor, a Southeast Asian nation occupying half the island of Timor, is ringed by coral reefs teeming with marine life. Landmarks in the capital, Dili, speak to the country's struggles for independence from Portugal in 1975 and...
Capital: Dili
Official languages: Tetun and Portuguese
Currency: United States Dollar
Population: 1.341 million (2022)
Prime minister: Xanana Gusmão
Gross domestic product: 3.205 billion USD (2022)
Date of Independence: May 20, 2002
Source: World Bank
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The eastern part of Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975, but Indonesian forces invaded and occupied the area nine days later. It ...
Timor-Leste became an independent nation in 2002, following over four hundred years of Portuguese colonization, twenty-four years of Indonesian occupation, ...
Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is divided between the sovereign states of East ...
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8 days ago · East Timor, island country in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, at the southern extreme of the Malay Archipelago. It occupies the eastern ...