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The Sunda Islands are a group of island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
s in the western part of Maritime Southeast Asia.

They are divided into two groups, with the Greater Sunda group being referred to much less than the Lesser Sunda.

*Greater Sunda Islands
Greater Sunda Islands

The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of islands within the Malay Archipelago. Islands included in the group are Sumatra, Java , Borneo, Sulawesi and adjacent smaller islands....






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The Sunda Islands are a group of island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
s in the western part of Maritime Southeast Asia.

They are divided into two groups, with the Greater Sunda group being referred to much less than the Lesser Sunda.

Indonesia 2002 Cia Map
*Greater Sunda Islands
Greater Sunda Islands

The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of islands within the Malay Archipelago. Islands included in the group are Sumatra, Java , Borneo, Sulawesi and adjacent smaller islands....
    • Borneo
      Borneo

      Borneo is the List of islands by area and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei....
    • Java
    • Sumatra
      Sumatra

      Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the list of islands by area in the world ....
    • Sulawesi
      Sulawesi

      Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands....
  • Lesser Sunda Islands
    Lesser Sunda Islands

    The Nusa Tenggara , or Lesser Sunda Islands, are a group of islands in the middle-south part of Maritime Southeast Asia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up the Sunda Islands....
    , from west to east
    • Bali
      Bali

      Bali is an Indonesian island located at , the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 Provinces of Indonesia with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island....
    • Lombok
      Lombok

      Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It is part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east....
    • Sumbawa
      Sumbawa

      Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast....
    • Flores
      Flores

      Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km? extending east from the Java island of Indonesia....
    • Sumba
      Sumba

      Sumba is an island in Indonesia, and is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It has an area of 11,153 km?, and the population was officially at 611,422 in 2005....
    • Timor
      Timor

      Timor is an island at the south end of the Malay Archipelago, north of the Timor Sea. It is divided between the independent state of East Timor, , and West Timor, belonging to the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara....
    • Alor archipelago
      Alor Archipelago

      The Alor archipelago is located at the easternmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, the chain that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west includes such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Solor and Lomblen....
    • Barat Daya Islands
      Barat Daya Islands

      The Barat Daya Islands are a group of islands in the Maluku Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. The Indonesian phrase barat daya means 'south-west', referring to the islands' location relative to the capital of Maluku province, Ambon, Maluku....
    • Tanimbar Islands
      Tanimbar Islands

      The Tanimbar Islands, also called Timor Laut, are a group of about 65 islands in the Maluku Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia, including Fordata, Larat, Maru, Molu, Nuswotar, Selaru, Selu, Seira, Wotap, Wuliaru and Yamdena....


The territory of the islands is divided between the present-day countries of Brunei
Brunei

Brunei Darussalam, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace , is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia....
, East Timor
East Timor

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro Island and Jaco , and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor....
, Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
, and Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
.

See also

  • Islands of Indonesia
    Islands of Indonesia

    Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands according to estimates made by the Politics of Indonesia, with about 6,000 of those inhabited. The country extends from adjacent the Malay Peninsula in its west and into Melanesia in its east....
  • Malay Archipelago
    Malay Archipelago

    The Malay Archipelago and Maritime Southeast Asia are names given to the archipelago located between mainland Southeast Asia and Australia....
  • Sundanese culture
    Sundanese culture

    Sundanese cultureIs the culture of the Sundanese people of West Java...


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