Greater Sunda Islands

islands, Indonesia

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The Greater Sunda Islands are a significant island group within the Sunda Islands, located southeast of the Malay Peninsula and extending towards New Guinea. This group includes major islands such as Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes, along with their surrounding smaller islands. Geologically, most of these islands, with the exception of parts of Borneo and Sumatra, are situated in a volcanically active zone between Asia and Australia. The Greater Sunda Islands form a substantial portion of Indonesia's landmass, with only northern Borneo falling outside Indonesian political control.12

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…zone (southern Malaysia and the Greater Sunda Islands), typical tropical rainforests have developed. In southwestern Sri Lanka and on the Indonesian island of Java, they have been almost entirely replaced by an agricultural landscape in which mountain slopes and hills are covered with plantations of tea, coconut palms, and rubber…
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…zone (southern Malaysia and the Greater Sunda Islands), typical tropical rainforests have developed. In southwestern Sri Lanka and on the Indonesian island of Java, they have been almost entirely replaced by an agricultural landscape in which mountain slopes and hills are covered with plantations of tea, coconut palms, and rubber…
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