Malay Archipelago
n.
group of islands of southeast Asia (includes the islands of Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia)
Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a vast
archipelago located between mainland
Southeastern Asia (
Indochina) and
Australia. Straddling the
Indian and
Pacific Oceans, this group of some 20,000
islands, the world's largest archipelago by area, constitutes the territories of
Indonesia, the
Philippines,
Singapore,
Brunei, the
Malaysian states of
Sarawak and
Sabah along with the Federal Territory of
Labuan,
East Timor, and most of
Papua New Guinea. There are, however, arguments for excluding the last-named country for cultural and geographical reasons: Papua New Guinea is culturally quite different from the other countries in the region, and the island of
New Guinea itself is geologically not part of the continent of
Asia, as the islands of the
Sunda Shelf are (see
Australia (continent)).
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Malay Archipelago
Noun
1. a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia
(synonym) East Indies, East India
(hypernym) archipelago
(part-holonym) Pacific, Pacific Ocean
(member-meronym) Malay, Malayan
(part-meronym) Sunda Islands
(class) curry
Malay Archipelago
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