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Borobudur: Then and Now

Ninth-century Buddhist monument in central Java, a stepped mountain of stone carved with more than two thousand reliefs. It lay under volcanic ash and jungle until 1814.

Historical view
Borobudur, historical view
Borobudur as a pilgrimage site, painting by Hooijer (1910s). Gijsbert Brandt Hooijer (1848 - 1934), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Borobudur, today
Heri nugroho, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayIndonesia
StatusStanding
DateAD 825
Nearest city on the mapJakarta (about 402 km)
Location7.608° S, 110.204° E
Map showing Borobudur in AD 800Borobudur
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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–324 BCAustronesians
323 BC–201 BCUnclaimed / no data
200 BC–101 BCMalays
100 BC–599Unclaimed / no data
600–999Mataram
1000–1299East Java
1300–1491Kediri
1492–1649Malaysian Islamic states
1650–1814Dutch East Indies
1815–1879Unclaimed / no data
1880–1919Netherlands Indies
1920–1944Dutch East Indies
1945–todayIndonesia

More: Historic landmarks of Indonesia · All landmarks

Further reading

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.