Back Pulo-pulo Meulayu ACE Maleise Argipel Afrikaans أرخبيل الملايو Arabic Archipiélagu malayu AST Malay arxipelaqı Azerbaijani Малай архипелагы Bashkir Kaislahan na Malay BCL Малайскі архіпелаг Byelorussian Малайскі архіпэляг BE-X-OLD Малайски архипелаг Bulgarian
 World map highlighting Malay Archipelago | |
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| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Maritime Southeast Asia, Melanesia |
| Total islands | 25,000 |
| Major islands | Java, Luzon, Borneo, Mindanao, New Guinea, Sulawesi, Sumatra |
| Area | 2,870,000 km2 (1,110,000 sq mi)[1] |
| Largest settlement | Quezon City |
| Largest settlement | Jakarta |
| Largest settlement | Port Moresby |
| Largest settlement | Bandar Seri Begawan |
| Largest settlement | Dili |
| Largest settlement | Kota Kinabalu (largest in the Malay Archipelago) |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 380,000,000 [2] |
| Ethnic groups | Predominantly Austronesians, with minorities of Negritoes, Papuans, Melanesians, Overseas Chinese, Arab descendants, and Overseas Indians |
The Malay Archipelago (Indonesian/Malay: Kepulauan Melayu, Filipino: Kapuluang Malayo) also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia. It has also been called the "Malay world," "Nusantara", "East Indies", and other names over time. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages.
Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, the archipelago of over 25,000 islands and islets is the largest archipelago by area and fifth by number of islands in the world. It includes Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia (specifically East Malaysia), Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines.[3][4] The term is largely synonymous with Maritime Southeast Asia.[5]
- ^ Moores, Eldridge M.; Fairbridge, Rhodes Whitmore (1997). Encyclopedia of European and Asian regional geology. Springer. p. 377. ISBN 0-412-74040-0. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
- ^ Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division (2006). "World Population Prospects, Table A.2" (PDF). 2006 revision. United Nations: 37–42. Retrieved 2007-06-30.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica – Malay Archipelago
- ^ "Maritime Southeast Asia Archived 2007-06-13 at the Wayback Machine." Worldworx Travel. Accessed 26 May 2009.
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