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The province of Bali is the only part of Nusa Tenggara located on the Sunda Shelf and that is not within the Wallacea region and that is west of the Wallace Line. [5] There are a number of volcanoes located on the Lesser Sunda Islands. [6]
Sumba (Petjo: Soemba-eiland; Indonesian: pulau Sumba), natively also spelt as Humba, Hubba, Suba, or Zuba (in Sumba languages) is an Indonesian island (part of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago group) located in the Eastern Indonesia and administratively part of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial territory.
East Nusa Tenggara and its islands. Located in the east of Lesser Sunda Islands, East Nusa Tenggara faces the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the north. This province borders East Timor (Timor-Leste) in the western part of Timor island, and is also close to the province of West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat) and the ...
Administratively, the Alor archipelago forms its own regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) within the province of East Nusa Tenggara. The Regency is divided into seventeen districts and 158 villages, and has an area of 2,928.88 km 2 and a population at the 2020 Census of 211,872; [1] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 216,626. [2]
The country's tallest mountains are located in the Jayawijaya Mountains and the Sudirman Range in Papua. The highest peak, Puncak Jaya (4,884 metres (16,024 ft)), is located in the Sudirman Mountains. A string of volcanoes stretches from Sumatra to Nusa Tenggara, [24] and then loops around through to the Banda Islands of
Map of Sahul and Sunda. Geologically, the Sunda Shelf (/ ˈ s ʌ n d ə / [1]) is a south-eastern extension of the continental shelf of Mainland Southeast Asia.Major landmasses on the shelf include the Indonesian islands of Bali, Borneo, Java, Madura, and Sumatra, as well as their surrounding smaller islands. [2]
It is located on the island of Lombok, of which it comprises the eastern third (including minor offshore islands); the administrative capital is the town of Selong. The Regency covers an area of 1,605.55 km 2 and had a population of 1,105,582 at the 2010 Census [ 3 ] and 1,325,240 at the 2020 Census; [ 4 ] the official estimate as at mid 2023 ...
Kupang (Indonesian: Kota Kupang, Indonesian pronunciation:), formerly known as Koepang or Coupang, is the capital of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara.At the 2020 Census, it had a population of 442,758; [4] the official estimate as of mid-2023 was 444,661. [2]