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Borneo (/ ˈ b ɔːr n i oʊ /; also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 748,168 km 2 (288,869 sq mi). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra.
The Borneo campaign or Second Battle of Borneo was the last major Allied campaign in the South West Pacific Area during World War II to liberate Japanese-held British Borneo and Dutch Borneo. Designated collectively as Operation Oboe, a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July 1945 were conducted by the Australian I Corps, under ...
Before the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific, the island of Borneo was divided into five territories. Four of the territories were in the north and under British control – Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan, an island, and British North Borneo; while the remainder, and bulk, of the island, was under the jurisdiction of the Dutch East Indies.
Geography of Indonesia. Indonesia is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia and Oceania, lying between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It is located in a strategic location astride or along major sea lanes connecting East Asia, South Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. [2]
New Guinea located in relation to Melanesia. Papua New Guinea map of Köppen climate classification. New Guinea is an island to the north of the Australian mainland, south of the equator. It is isolated by the Arafura Sea to the west, and the Torres Strait and Coral Sea to the east.
Papua New Guinea is one of the most heterogeneous nations in the world [118] with an estimated 8.95 million inhabitants as of 2020. [119] There are hundreds of ethnic groups indigenous to Papua New Guinea, the majority being from the group known as Papuans , whose ancestors arrived in the New Guinea region tens of thousands of years ago.
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and Freedom Tower, [note 1] is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City.. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the
001 – World. Southeast Asia[a] is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania. [5] Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of ...