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The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race , later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages .
This is a list of islands of Malaysia. According to the Department of Survey and Mapping, Malaysia, there are 879 islands in the country. The state of Sabah has the most islands with 395 islands within its waters. [1] Apart from that, Malaysia also has 510 offshore geographical features which include rocks, sandbanks and ridges. [2]
Name of the archipelago Number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays ... Malay Archipelago (inc. Indonesian and Philippine Archipelago) 25,000 (approx.)
The Malay Peninsula [a] is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia , Southern Thailand , and the southernmost tip of Myanmar ( Kawthaung ).
These are more than 25,000 islands of the area that comprise many smaller archipelagoes. [9] The major groupings are: Peninsular Malaysia [10] Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor, East Malaysia and Brunei. Sunda Islands. Greater Sunda Islands; Lesser Sunda Islands; Maluku Islands; Philippines. Visayan Islands; Sulu Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a book by the English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace which chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea.
Beaver Archipelago; Channel Islands; Dome Islands; Lake Erie Islands; Hen and Chicken Islands (USA) Hochelaga Archipelago; ... Malay Archipelago 380,000,000 inhabitants;
In 1850, the English ethnologist George Samuel Windsor Earl, writing in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, proposed naming the islands of Southeast Asia as "Melayunesia" or "Indunesia", favouring the former. [33] The name Malaysia gained some use to label what is now the Malay Archipelago. [34]