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'''West Java''' ({{langx|id|Jawa Barat}}, {{langx|su|{{Sund|ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪}}|Jawa Kulon}}) is an [[Indonesia]]n [[Provinces of Indonesia|province]] on the western part of the island of [[Java]], with its provincial capital in [[Bandung]] and its largest city is [[Bekasi]]. West Java is bordered by the province of [[Banten]] and the country's capital region of [[Jakarta]] to the west, the [[Java Sea]] to the north, the province of [[Central Java]] to the east and the [[Indian Ocean]] to the south. With [[Banten]], this province is the native homeland of the [[Sundanese people]], the [[Ethnic groups in Indonesia|second-largest ethnic group in Indonesia]].
West Java was one of the first eight provinces of Indonesia formed following the [[Proclamation of Indonesian Independence|country's independence proclamation]] and was later legally re-established on 14 July 1950. In 1960, the city of [[Jakarta]] was split off from West Java as a 'special capital region' ({{lang|id|Daerah Khusus Ibukota}}), with a status equivalent to that of a province,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Jakarta|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106450/Jakarta#13148.toc|access-date=17 September 2007|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|archive-date=11 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061111193732/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9106450/Jakarta#13148.toc|url-status=live}}</ref> while in 2000 the western parts of the province were in turn split away to form a separate [[Banten]] province.
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