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Lying at the collision of two tectonic plates, the Lesser Sunda Islands comprise some of the most geologically complex and active regions in the world. 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]
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 ...
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.
The East Sumba Regency is composed of twenty-two districts (kecamatan), whose areas (in km 2) and populations at the 2010 Census [2] and 2020 Census [3] are listed below, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. [1]
Sumbawa, [a] 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. . Along with Lombok, it forms the province of West Nusa Tenggara, but there have been plans (currently held in abeyance) by the Indonesian government to split the island off into a separate province.
Savu (Indonesian: Sawu, also known as Sabu, Havu, and Hawu) is the largest of a group of three islands, situated midway between Sumba and Rote, west of Timor, in Indonesia's eastern province, East Nusa Tenggara. Ferries connect the islands to Waingapu on Sumba, Ende on Flores, and Kupang in West Timor.
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 ecoregion is home to 273 bird species. It corresponds to the Northern Nusa Tenggara endemic bird area. [8] 17 species are endemic: [6] Flores green pigeon (Treron floris) Wallace's hanging parrot (Loriculus flosculus) Glittering kingfisher (Caridonax fulgidus) Scaly-crowned honeyeater (Lichmera lombokia) Bare-throated whistler (Pachycephala ...