Sunda Islands
The Sunda Islands are a group of islands in the Malay archipelago.[1]
They are further divided into the Greater Sunda Islands and the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Administration
The islands are divided up between four countries, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Much of the islands are the territory of Indonesia. The island of Borneo is divided up between Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The island of Timor is divided between East Timor and Indonesia. Two small islands also belong to East Timor.
List of islands
- Greater Sunda Islands
- Lesser Sunda Islands, from west to east
See also
- Banda Arc
- Greater Sunda Islands
- Islands of Indonesia
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sunda Arc
- Sundaland
- Sunda Trench
Notes
- ↑ For an early english language account see - ' Account of the Sunda Islands and Japan : discourse of the Hon. T.S. Raffles. pp. [190]-198 ; From the Quarterly journal of science articles, vol. 2 (1817) or Journal of science and the arts, Vol. 2 (1817)
External links
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sunda Islands". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.- Visible earth page on the lesser Sunda islands
- (English) (French) Map of a Part of China, the Philippine Islands, the Isles of Sunda, the Moluccas, the Papuans is a map from around 1760 featuring the Sunda Islands
Coordinates: 2°00′S 110°00′E / 2.000°S 110.000°E
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