Archipelago between mainland Southeast Asia and Australia
This article is about the archipelago. For the book, see The Malay Archipelago.
Not to be confused with Maritime Southeast Asia.
Malay Archipelago
World map highlighting Malay Archipelago
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]
Philippines
Largest settlement
Quezon City
Indonesia
Largest settlement
Jakarta
Papua New Guinea
Largest settlement
Port Moresby
Brunei
Largest settlement
Bandar Seri Begawan
East Timor
Largest settlement
Dili
Malaysia
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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The MalayArchipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period...
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Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and the entire Malayarchipelago Brunei Malay, an official national language of Brunei distinct from standard Malay Kedah Malay, a...
interchangeably with the concepts of 'MalayArchipelago' and 'Nusantara'. Malayophones (peoples and nations that speak Malay/Indonesian as their native language...
Indonesian archipelago (inc. Acehnese, Banjarese, Bugis, Mandailing, Minangkabau and Javanese) as Malays. Indonesia is the birthplace of the Malay civilization...
of the Malay or Nusantara archipelago and include Makassar Malay, Manado Malay, Ambonese Malay, North Moluccan Malay, Kupang Malay, Dili Malay, and Papuan...
Kingdoms or polities, both historical and present, established in Malay world or MalayArchipelago. Most prominent among others are Malacca Sultanate, Johor-Riau-Lingga...
East Indies. By then it exerted territorial control over much of the archipelago, most notably on Java. In 1603, the first permanent Dutch trading post...
fieldwork in the MalayArchipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct...
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removed from the Malay heartlands in the western archipelago. It is sharply distinct from other eastern Indonesian varieties of Malay, differing both in...
Asia Archipelago as far as the Philippines. That contact resulted in a lingua franca ("trade language") that was called Bazaar Malay or low Malay and in...
term is used to refer to the MalayArchipelago, which today comprises the Philippine Archipelago, Indonesian Archipelago, Borneo, and New Guinea. Historically...
Sulu Archipelago, and around Manila. Malays made large contribution to Philippine history, and influenced modern-day lifestyles of Filipinos. The Malay language...
large continental landmasses and adjacent islands. The islands of the MalayArchipelago, north of Australia, mainly lie on the continental shelf of Asia,...
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19th century definitions encompassed the region as beginning in the MalayArchipelago, and as ending near the Americas. In the 19th century, many geographers...
Java, Indonesia other islands of the Sunda archipelago, as well as Luzon, Philippines. All these Old Malay inscriptions used either scripts of Indian...
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the Indonesian Archipelago, Malaysia, or Singapore. In addition, people from Brunei and the Philippines also consider themselves Malays. The term is a...
spread through the Bay of Bengal, which was a bridge between the MalayArchipelago and Indo-Islamic states of the Indian subcontinent. A large number...
ingredients from three sources: Persia, the Indian Subcontinent, and the MalayArchipelago (e.g., cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, star anise, cumin, bay leaves,...
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