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Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 1991
Photograph by James L। Stanfield

A free-standing arch and crescent-shaped gate frame a mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. This Southeast Asian country, the largest archipelago in the world, is the most populous Muslim nation on Earth, with more than 245 million people, 88 percent of whom follow Islam.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ibn Battuta, Prince of Travelers," December 1991, National Geographic magazine)