East Java (Indonesian: Jawa Timur, Javanese: Jawa Wétan) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes the neighbouring island of Madura and islands to its east (the Kangean and Sapudi groups) and to its north (Bawean and the Masalembu Islands. It has a land border only with Central Java (Jawa Tengah) province to its west. The provincial capital is Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia and a major industrial center and port.
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“The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-in house, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.”
—Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)