Borobudur

Borobudur is a district (kecamatan) in Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. Its name is also written in Javanese script, and the entry refers readers to the Borobudur temple, Candi Borobudur, under a separate heading. The description available here covers only the district as an administrative area, not the monument itself.

The district lies about 4 Km south of Kota Mungkid, the capital of Magelang Regency. Its centre of government is in the village of Borobudur. It is one of the southernmost districts of the regency and borders directly on the Special Region of Yogyakarta.

The catalogue files Borobudur under other or unclassified monuments and carries a date of 800. Nothing further about the structure, its builders or its excavation is stated in the material available for this entry, so those details are not known from it.

As wider background, Indonesia is one of the few places where megalith-building is still a living tradition. Among the Nias of North Sumatra, the Batak, the people of Flores and Sumba, and the Toraja of South Sulawesi, megalithic cultures remained preserved, isolated and undisturbed well into the late nineteenth century. Menhirs, dolmens, stone tables and ancestral stone statues are also found at sites in Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands and New Guinea. This describes the region in general and is not a statement about Borobudur itself.

Borobudur is a other / unclassified in Magelang, Indonesia. Wikidata describes it as: district in Magelang Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. Dating: 800 CE. Elevation: 275 m. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Indonesian article "Borobudur, Magelang", shown in the original language.