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Internationally it is known as Borneo, derived from European contact with the Brunei kingdom in the 16th century during the Age of Exploration. On a map from around 1601, Brunei city is referred to as Borneo, and the whole island is also labelled Borneo.
Political map of the island of Borneo, with East Malaysia shown in orange. East Malaysia (Malay: Malaysia Timur), or the Borneo States, [1] also known as Malaysian Borneo, is the part of Malaysia on and near the island of Borneo, the world's third-largest island.
Map of Borneo, based on information from several maps. Light yellow = Indonesia; Light orange = Malaysia; Green = Brunei; Source: Image:Borneo2 map english names.PNG, by Astrokey44: Author: Mortadelo2005: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Borneo admin map-hu.svg. Image:Borneo2 map english names.PNG
A topographic and geographic limits map of Brunei. Brunei is a southeast Asian country consisting of two unconnected parts with a total area of 5,765 square kilometres (2,226 sq mi) on the island of Borneo. It has 161 kilometres (100 mi) of coastline next to the South China Sea, and it shares a 381 km (237 mi) border with Malaysia.
Location map of Borneo in SE Asia. The Red River Fault is included in the map. The base of rocks that underlie Borneo, an island in Southeast Asia, was formed by the arc-continent collisions, continent–continent collisions and subduction–accretion due to convergence between the Asian, India–Australia, and Philippine Sea-Pacific plates over the last 400 million years. [1]
The map also puts the islands of Sipadan and Ligitan within Malaysian territorial waters. Indonesia initially rejected the assertion that the islands belonged to Malaysia and both countries brought the dispute to the International Court of Justice. In 2002, the court decided that the sovereignty of the two islands belonged to Malaysia.
This is a list of islands of Malaysia. According to the Department of Survey and Mapping, Malaysia, there are 879 islands in the country. The state of Sabah has the most islands with 395 islands within its waters. [1] Apart from that, Malaysia also has 510 offshore geographical features which include rocks, sandbanks and ridges. [2]
Indonesia map with name of islands larger than ... Island's name Area (km 2 ... 303,381: 11,818,000 Indonesia (Western New Guinea) and Papua New Guinea: Borneo: 748,168: