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The island is roughly 1,300 km (810 mi) long and ranges from 50 to 230 km (31 to 143 mi) wide, and its total area is 227,960 km 2 (88,020 sq mi), [1] making it slightly larger than the island of Great Britain. Its land area has been increasing with land reclamation and coastal uplift in the north due to plate tectonics with a convergent ...
Some prominently large islands include Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, and Lesser Sunda Islands. Eastern Indian Ocean ...
Java, formerly Jawa Dwipa. Sumatra , formerly Swarna Dwipa . Borneo : divided between the Indonesian region Kalimantan , the country of Brunei and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak .
This is a list of Japan's major islands, traditional regions, and subregions, going from northeast to southwest. [13] [14] The eight traditional regions are marked in bold. Hokkaidō (the island and its archipelago) Honshū. Tōhoku region (northern part) Kantō region (eastern part) Nanpō Islands (part of Tokyo Metropolis) Chūbu region ...
Canada: Southampton Island (to the north-west) and Coats Island (to the south-east) Straits of Florida: Florida and Cuba: Formosa Strait: Taiwan and the Mainland China: Foveaux Strait: New Zealand, between the South Island and Stewart Island: Foxe Channel: Canada: the Foxe Basin (to the north) from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait (to the south ...
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.
Java [a] is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 153.8 million people, Java is the world's most populous island, home to approximately 54% of the Indonesian population. [2]
The Eastern Java-Bali rain forests and Eastern Java-Bali montane rain forests cover Bali, which is the only of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the Indomalayan realm, and not part of Wallacea. Bali was once attached to the Asian continent (see Sundaland ), and home to large Asiatic mammals like Asian elephants and the extinct Bali tiger .