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The Riau Archipelago is a large group of more or less small islands located east of the island of Sumatra and south of the Malay Peninsula with Singapore at its tip in the Malay Archipelago. The largest islands in the archipelago are Batam and Bintan with the capital Tanjung Pinang. The islands belonged to the Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies.
There are around 3,200 islands in the province, which has its capital at Tanjung Pinang in the south of Bintan Island. The Riau Islands province includes the Lingga Islands to the south of the main Riau Archipelago, while to the northeast lies the Tudjuh Archipelago, between Borneo and mainland Malaysia; the Tudjuh Archipelago consists of four ...
The equator goes through the northern tip of Lingga Island, the main island in the archipelago. Administratively they form a Regency of the Riau Islands Province with a land area of 2,250.45 km 2 [2] and a population of 86,244 people at the 2010 census [3] and 98,633 at the 2020 census; [4] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 102,474. [1]
Merapas Island is an Indonesian island in South East Asia. It is part of the Riau Islands, situated between Pulau Kayuara and Pulau Redang, and is also near Pulau Mapur and the town of Kawal. It is best known for being an operational base for Operation Rimau during World War II. [1]
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands. The East Indies were targeted by the Japanese for their rich oil resources which ...
The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945. In May 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands, and martial law was declared in the Dutch East Indies. Following the failure of negotiations between the Dutch authorities and the Japanese ...
The Riau Archipelago is a geographic term (as opposed to administrative region) for the core group of islands within the Riau Islands Province in Indonesia, and located south of Singapore and east of Riau on Sumatra. Before the province of Riau Islands was formed, there was no ambiguity in term; however, in Indonesian language, both the ...
The Battle of Morotai, part of the Pacific War, began on 15 September 1944, and continued until the end of the war in August 1945.The fighting started when United States and Australian forces landed on the southwest corner of Morotai, a small island in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI), which the Allies needed as a base to support the liberation of the Philippines later that year.