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PRONUNCIATION OF GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS

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WHAT DOES GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Greater Sunda Islands

The Greater Sunda Islands are a group of large islands within the Malay Archipelago. Java, smallest but by far the most populous; Sumatra in the west, directly across the Strait of Malacca from Malaysia; large, compact Borneo, the Indonesian sector of which is called Kalimantan; and wishbone-shaped, distended Sulawesi to the east. Under some definitions, only Java, Sumatra and Borneo are included in the Greater Sunda Islands. Together with the Lesser Sunda Islands they make up the Sunda Islands.

Definition of Greater Sunda Islands in the English dictionary

The definition of Greater Sunda Islands in the dictionary is a group of islands in the W Malay Archipelago, forming the larger part of the Sunda Islands: consists of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS

British Virgin Islands
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Cook Islands
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Mariana Islands
Marshall Islands
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Northern Mariana Islands
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Synonyms and antonyms of Greater Sunda Islands in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Greater Sunda Islands» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS

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Translator English - Chinese

大巽他群岛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Mayores Islas de la Sonda
570 millions of speakers

English

Greater Sunda Islands
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्रेटर सुण्डा द्वीप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أكبر جزر سوندا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Большие Зондские острова
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Maiores Ilhas de Sonda
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বৃহত্তর Sunda দ্বীপপুঞ্জ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Grandes îles de la Sonde
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepulauan Sunda Besar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Große Sundainseln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大スンダ列島
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

큰 순다 제도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kapuloan Sunda Besar
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Lớn hơn quần đảo Sunda
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிரேட்டர் சுந்தா தீவுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्रेटर Sunda Islands
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Büyük Sunda Adaları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Greater Isole della Sonda
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Większe Archipelag Sundajski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Великі Зондські острови
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Greater Insulele Sunda
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Μεγαλύτερη Sunda Islands
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Groter Sunda Eilande
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Greater Sundaöarna
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Større Sundaøyene
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Greater Sunda Islands

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Greater Sunda Islands

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS»

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and ...
This book provides the first complete identification guides to the birds of this teeming tropical paradise.
John MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, 1993
2
World and Its Peoples: Indonesia and East Timor
Three groups of Indonesian islands are often recognized: the Greater Sunda Islands in the north and west, the Lesser Sunda Islands (known in Indonesia as Nusa Tenggara) in the south, and the Moluccas in the east. Farther east lies the ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2007
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The Islands
It consists of the four Greater Sunda Islands — Sumatra, larger than California; Java, about the size of New York State; Borneo, about the size of France ( presently called Kalimantan); and Celebes, about the size of North Dakota (now called ...
Albert Alberts, 1999
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
R666 (Zoology)] UF Leporillus conditor BT Stick-nest rats Greater Sunda Islands UF Greater Soenda Islands Greater Sundas Soenda Islands, Greater Sunda Islands, Greater Sundas, Greater BT Islands of the Pacific Malay Archipelago NT  ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2005
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The Birds of Northern Melanesia : Speciation, Ecology, and ...
... tigers, orang-utans, and gibbons. Alfred Russel Wallace (1892l recognized that those large mammals had walked out to the Greater Sunda Islands at Pleistocene times of low sea level, when the islands were part of the Asian mainland.
Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University Ernst Mayr Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology (Emeritus), Jared Diamond Professor of Physiology UCLA Medical Center, 2001
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Tips Dan Trik Sukses Un
Both islands are the second-and-third largest islands in the world, after Greenland, Many geographers divide the mote than 13,000 islands of Indonesia into three groups: (1) the Greater Sunda Islands, (2) the Lesser Sunda Islands, and (3) the ...
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Mangrove Forests, Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: ...
... based on diversity and floral composition: "Bay of Bengal" with low species diversity; "South China Sea" which includes the greater Sunda islands, west Sumatra and southern Java having between twenty seven and twenty nine core species ...
John Pernetta, 1993
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The Territories of Indonesia
The Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara in Indonesian, the South-Eastern Islands—the official name from 1954) continue the chain of the Greater Sunda Islands, with Sumatra (Sumatera) coming out of the north-west and ending with Java ...
Iem Brown, 2004
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Invasion Biology and Ecological Theory: Insights from a ...
Greater Sunda Islands 37 spp. Lesser Sunda Islands 19 spp. Pseudomys Group Mesembriomys Group Uromys Group H y d ro m y i n i Hydromys Group Other Group Rattini Other tribes Melanesia 114 spp. Indochina 37 spp. Philippines 56 ...
Herbert H. T. Prins, Iain J. Gordon, 2014
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The Stranger-Kings of Sikka: With an Integrated Edition of ...
In terms of geography, the region of Portuguese activity in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands was a corridor which was open toward the north to the Moluccas and to the west to the Greater Sunda islands and the Malay peninsula. In the most ...
E. Douglas Lewis, 2010

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS»

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Can China Rise Peacefully?
... the U.S. Navy beyond the “first island chain,” which is usually taken to include the Greater Sunda Islands, Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan. «The National Interest Online, Apr 14»
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Keith Rankin: Our Oceans Past - an Austronesian Enigma
Thus the Greater Sunda Islands of modern Indonesia - Borneo, Sumatra, Java - were part of a generally low-lying sub-continent of Asia, known ... «Scoop.co.nz, Mar 12»

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