Indonesia: linguistic neighbours

Shares no official language with another country; closest tie Hong Kong.

Data as of 1 Nov 2026 · 195 partner countries · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet · USITC DICL v2

Country

Who shares a language with Indonesia

Shared-language index of every country with Indonesia; the legend is the key.

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Small territories are not drawn at this scale.

Nearest

The countries whose people can talk most easily with Indonesia's.

How this is measured

Shared language is the common spoken language index from the USITC DICL: the sum over languages of the share of people in Indonesia who speak it times the share in the other country, native or acquired. It is not a probability and can exceed 1, because the shares overlap. Proximity measures how close different native languages sit on the language tree, so it is low for same-language pairs and highest for related-but-different languages. Countries under 1 million residents are left out of both boards.

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Hong Kong

7.5M residents

0.03

Malaysia

34.4M residents

0.01

Netherlands

18.2M residents

0.01

Singapore

6.1M residents

0.01

Taiwan

23.2M residents

0.00

China

1404.9M residents

0.00

Australia

27.8M residents

0.00

Madagascar

32.7M residents

0.00

Philippines

114.8M residents

0.00

East Timor

1.4M residents

0.00

#						Pairs
1	Hong Kong	0.03	—	0.01	7.5M	pairs
2	Malaysia	0.01	—	0.36	34.4M	pairs
3	Netherlands	0.01	—	0.00	18.2M	pairs
4	Singapore	0.01	—	0.07	6.1M	pairs
5	Taiwan	0.00	—	0.01	23.2M	pairs
6	China	0.00	—	0.01	1404.9M	pairs
7	Australia	0.00	—	0.00	27.8M	pairs
8	Madagascar	0.00	—	0.44	32.7M	pairs
9	Philippines	0.00	—	0.41	114.8M	pairs
10	East Timor	0.00	—	0.20	1.4M	pairs
11	Papua New Guinea	0.00	—	0.06	10.2M	pairs
12	Qatar	0.00	—	0.02	3.4M	pairs
13	New Zealand	0.00	—	0.02	5.4M	pairs
14	Haiti	0.00	—	0.02	11.9M	pairs
15	Mauritius	0.00	—	0.01	1.2M	pairs
16	Jamaica	0.00	—	0.01	2.8M	pairs
17	Saudi Arabia	0.00	—	0.01	35.3M	pairs
18	Thailand	0.00	—	0.01	65.7M	pairs
19	Canada	0.00	—	0.01	41.4M	pairs
20	Congo	0.00	—	0.01	6.1M	pairs

Farthest

The countries with the least language in common with Indonesia.

How this is measured

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Madagascar

32.7M residents

0.00

Philippines

114.8M residents

0.00

East Timor

1.4M residents

0.00

Papua New Guinea

10.2M residents

0.00

Qatar

3.4M residents

0.00

New Zealand

5.4M residents

0.00

Haiti

11.9M residents

0.00

Mauritius

1.2M residents

0.00

Jamaica

2.8M residents

0.00

Saudi Arabia

35.3M residents

0.00

#					Pairs
1	Madagascar	—	0.44	32.7M	pairs
2	Philippines	—	0.41	114.8M	pairs
3	East Timor	—	0.20	1.4M	pairs
4	Papua New Guinea	—	0.06	10.2M	pairs
5	Qatar	—	0.02	3.4M	pairs
6	New Zealand	—	0.02	5.4M	pairs
7	Haiti	—	0.02	11.9M	pairs
8	Mauritius	—	0.01	1.2M	pairs
9	Jamaica	—	0.01	2.8M	pairs
10	Saudi Arabia	—	0.01	35.3M	pairs
11	Thailand	—	0.01	65.7M	pairs
12	Canada	—	0.01	41.4M	pairs
13	Congo	—	0.01	6.1M	pairs
14	Cambodia	—	0.01	17.6M	pairs
15	Trinidad & Tobago	—	0.01	1.4M	pairs
16	United States	—	0.00	341.8M	pairs
17	Central African Republic	—	0.00	6.5M	pairs
18	Congo DR	—	0.00	116.5M	pairs
19	Ghana	—	0.00	34.4M	pairs
20	Guinea-Bissau	—	0.00	1.9M	pairs

Where these numbers come from

Pair figures come from the USITC Dynamic International Country Linguistics database, version 2 (CC BY 4.0). See Method.

Unicode CLDR territoryInfo (release 49) (Unicode License v3). Country-level language shares, official status and Tier 3 reach (populationPercent is total speakers, first plus second language).
Glottolog 5.3 (CC BY 4.0). Language names, ISO 639-3 codes, families.
Database of International and Intranational Linguistic distances (DICL v2), USITC (CC BY 4.0). Country-pair common spoken language and linguistic proximity (neighbours, linked-world score, pairs pages).
States (ISO 3166-2) sheet, MetroAreas workbook (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation). States, populations and the four language labels per state.
Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 Countries (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector) (Public domain). World outline for the language maps (world-110m.geojson, properties reduced to iso3 and name).
Country layer of this site (countries.json workbook population, World Bank iso2 and iso3, OWID country-population) (Citizen of Nowhere, own compilation; World Bank CC BY 4.0; OWID CC BY). Country population, iso2 and /countries slug joined onto languages, countries and families (speakers = share x population).