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The name Flores is of Portuguese origin, meaning "Flowers". Flores is located east of Sumbawa and the Komodo Islands, and west of the Solor Islands and the Alor Archipelago. To the southeast is Timor. To the south, across the Sumba Strait, is Sumba Island, and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.
Blessed with a tropical climate and roughly 17,000 islands, Indonesia is the nation with the second highest biodiversity in the world. The flora of Indonesia reflects an intermingling of Asian, Australian and unique, Indonesian lineages. This is due to the geography of Indonesia, located between the aforementioned continents.
Nagekeo Regency (sometimes written as Nagé Kéo) is a regency on the island of Flores in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia, comprising the Nage people in the south and the Keo in the north (in Aesesa and Wolowae Districts).
The park is a World Heritage Site. Its islands offer good scuba diving. Every evening at Kalong Island (in the bay on the east side of Komodo island [9]), thousands of flying fox bats (burung kalong in Indonesian) rise from the mangroves and form a massive cloud that crosses the strait to Flores island in search of food.
Ngada Regency is one of the regencies on the island of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia.It is bordered by East Manggarai Regency to the west and Nagekeo Regency to the east, with the Flores Sea to the north and the Sawu Sea to the south.
West Manggarai Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Manggarai Barat) is one of the eight regencies which comprise the island of Flores, located in the province of East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur) in Indonesia. The Regency was created on 25 February 2003 by the separation off of the western districts from Manggarai Regency.
Paluʼe island is under the administrative region of Sikka Regency of East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. The island has an area of 39.69 km 2 and population of 9,497 people (at the 2020 Census); the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 9,874, [ 1 ] resident in eight mountain villages .
Maumere is the administrative seat of the Sikka Regency and the second largest town (its nominal population has recently overtaken Ende, but of these over 10,500 live in rural areas on outlying islands) on Flores Island, Indonesia. It lies on the north coast of the island and the port is in the north-west part of the town.