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The discrepancy of the numbers of Indonesian islands is due to the earlier surveys including "tidal islands"; sandy cays and rocky reefs that appear during low tide and are submerged during high tide. As of 2023, 17,024 island have been named by Geospatial Information Agency and published in Indonesian Gazetteer. [1]
Indonesia map with name of islands larger than 1000 km 2. This list of Indonesian islands by area includes all Indonesian islands over 500 km 2 in descending order by ...
This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...
Borneo (/ ˈ b ɔːr n i oʊ /; also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 748,168 km 2 (288,869 sq mi), and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses).
To the south, across the Sumba Strait, is Sumba Island, and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi. Among all islands containing Indonesian territory, Flores is the 10th most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo , Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombok, and Timor, and also the 10th biggest island of Indonesia.
One of the majority of uninhabited islands of the Philippines. The land and sea area of the archipelago exceeds 2 million km 2. [1] The more than 25,000 islands of the archipelago consist of many smaller archipelagoes. [25] The major island groupings in the Indonesian Archipelago include the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, and the Sunda Islands.
Artificial island Taipa–Coloane: 129,648 (2016) [134] 6,030 15,600 [135] China ( Macau) Islands joined by a causeway and subsequently land reclamation Samosir: 108,869 (2020) 2,507.44 6,494.2 Indonesia ( North Sumatra) Peninsula within Lake Toba (connected to the island of Sumatra by a narrow isthmus which is crossed by a canal with no lock)
The islands of the Indian Ocean are part of either the eastern, western, or southern areas. Some prominently large islands include Madagascar , Sri Lanka , and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra , Java , and Lesser Sunda Islands .