Greater Sunda Islands

The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of large islands within the Malay archipelago. Jawa (Java), smallest but by far the most populous and important; Sumatera (Sumatra) in the west, directly across the Strait of Malacca from Malaysia; large, compact, minicontinent Borneo, the Indonesian sector of which is called Kalimantan; and wishbone-shaped, distended Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) to the east. Together with the Lesser Sunda Islands they make up... More

The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of large islands within the Malay archipelago. Jawa (Java), smallest but by far the most populous and important; Sumatera (Sumatra) in the west, directly across the Strait of Malacca from Malaysia; large, compact, minicontinent Borneo, the Indonesian sector of which is called Kalimantan; and wishbone-shaped, distended Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) to the east. Together with the Lesser Sunda Islands they make up the Sunda Islands. The Greater Sunda islands are mostly territory of Indonesia. However, the island of Borneo is divided between the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It contains most of Brunei, the Indonesian provinces of Central, East, West, and South Kalimantan, and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.

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