{"id":70214,"date":"2025-10-26T14:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=70214"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:00:09","slug":"key-facts-about-timor-leste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-timor-leste\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts About Timor Leste"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Timor Leste Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Timor Leste (East Timor) formally admitted to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the group\u2019s first expansion since the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Timor Leste<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Timor Leste or East Timor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an <\/span><b>island country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, at the southern extreme of the <\/span><b>Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also includes an <\/span><b>exclave<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on this island&#8217;s northwestern side that is bounded by West Timor of Indonesia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is bounded by the <\/span><b>Wetar Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the north and the <\/span><b>Ombai Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the northwest, <\/span><b>Timor Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to southeast and <\/span><b>Western Timor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the southwest.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate and biodiversity:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The area has a <\/span><b>dry tropical climate and moderate rainfall<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Hilly areas are covered with sandalwood.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scrub and grass grow in the lowlands, together with coconut palms and eucalyptus trees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Point:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mount Tatamailau<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most significant rivers are the <\/span><b>Lakla, Lies and Seical.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural resources:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gold, petroleum, natural gas, manganese, marble<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Population:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the people are of Papuan, Malayan, and Polynesian origin\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dili<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/east-timor-formally-admitted-to-asean-in-the-groups-first-expansion-since-the-1990s\/article70204087.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timor Leste is an island country in the Eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, at the southern extreme of the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":70401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3407,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-70214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-timor-leste","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}