Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste (officially Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) is a country in South-Eastern Asia, with its capital at Dili, and is home to roughly 1.4M people.
Its official languages are Portuguese, Tetum; the currency in circulation is United States dollar ($); people from here are called East Timorese.
- »It became independent in 2002, one of the youngest countries in the world.
- »Portuguese and Tetum are both official languages.
Timor-Leste has exactly one neighbour: Indonesia to the northwest.
Dili sits on the north coast and was the centre of both Portuguese rule and the long resistance to Indonesian occupation.
15,155 km² (5,851 sq mi), 156th largest of 198 countries and territories on file.
Population 1,400,638, 153rd of 198 on file. That averages 92 per km² (239 per sq mi).
The black triangle stands for the obscurantism to be overcome, the yellow for the traces of colonialism, with a white star of peace guiding the country.