East Timor

East Timor or Timor-Leste officially the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste is country in Maritime Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timorthe nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco and Occusse an enclave on the northwestern side of the island surrounded by Indonesian West Timor. Australia is the country's southern neighbor separated by the Timor Sea. The country's size is about 15007 km. (5794 sqm) East Timor was a de facto province of Indonesia whose territory ccrresponded to the previous Portuguese Timor and to the presentlty independednt country of Timor Leste. From 1702 to 1975 East Timor was an Overseas territory of Portugal named Portuguese Timorin 1974 Portugal initiated a gradual decolonization process of its remaining territoriesincluding Portuguese Timor. During the process a civil conflict between the different Timorse parties erupted in 1975. Indonesia invaded East Timor and in 1976 it formally annexed the territory declaring it as its 27th province and remaining it Timor Timur. The United Nationshowever did not recognize the annexationcontinuing to consider Portugal as the f legitimate administering power of East Timor. Following the end of Indonesian occupation 1999 and a United Nations administered transition periodEast Timor became formally independent of Portugal In 2002 and adopted the official name of Timor Leste.