Bali, Indonesia

Bali (/ˈbɑːli/; Balinese: ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province consists of the island of Bali and a few smaller neighboring islands, quite Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the most populous metropolis in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the second-largest, after Makassar, in Eastern Indonesia. The upland city of Ubud in Greater Denpasar is regarded Bali's cultural center. The province is Indonesia's important vacationer destination, with a sizeable upward jostle in tourism given that the 1980s. Tourism-related commercial enterprise makes up 80% of its economy.

Bali is the solely Hindu-majority province in Muslim-majority Indonesia, with 86.9% of the populace adhering to Balinese Hinduism. It is famed for its relatively developed arts, consisting of ordinary and modern-day dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metalworking, and music. The Indonesian International Film Festival is held each yr in Bali. Other worldwide activities held in Bali encompass the Miss World 2013 and 2018 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. In March 2017, TripAdvisor named Bali as the world's pinnacle vacation spot in its Traveller's Choice award, which it additionally earned in January 2021.

Bali is phase of the Coral Triangle, the location with the very best biodiversity of marine species, in particular fish and turtles. In this location alone, over five hundred reef-building coral species can be found. For comparison, this is about seven instances as many as in the whole Caribbean. Bali is the domestic of the Subak irrigation system, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is additionally domestic to a unified confederation of kingdoms composed of 10 typical royal Balinese houses, every residence ruling a unique geographic area. The confederation is the successor of the Bali Kingdom. The royal houses are now not identified by using the authorities of Indonesia; however, they originated earlier than Dutch colonization.