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Asian islands are a huge part of Asia's physical features and have played a huge part in both World Wars. Learn about Asia's islands such as Bali, the Mariana Islands and Wake Island.
Featured Article: Geography of The Sunda Islands
Sunda Islands, an island group between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, forming most of Indonesia. See more »
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East Timor
East Timor, or Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, a country in Southeast Asia between the Savu and Timor Seas.
See more »Geography of Andaman And Nicobar Islands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India, consisting of two island groups.
See more »Geography of Bali
Bali, an island of Indonesia. It lies immediately east of Java between the Java Sea on the north and the Indian Ocean on the south.
See more »Geography of Celebes
Celebes (Indonesian: Sulawesi), one of the Greater Sunda Islands of Indonesia. It lies east of Borneo and south of the Philippines, and is bounded by the Celebes, Molucca, Banda, and Flores seas and by Makassar Strait.
See more »Geography of Corregidor
Corregidor, a small island at the entrance to Manila Bay off the western shore of the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
See more »Geography of East Indies Island
East Indies, a vaguely defined geographical term that has changed in meaning during the past several centuries.
See more »Geography of Halmahera
Halmahera, the largest island of the Moluccas (Spice Islands) of Indonesia. It lies between the Molucca Sea and the Pacific Ocean, 200 miles (320 km) northwest of New Guinea.
See more »Geography of Java Island
Java, the most populous island of Indonesia. It is bordered on the north by the Java Sea and on the south by the Indian Ocean.
See more »Geography of Krakatau Island
Krakatau, or Krakatoa, a volcanic island in Indonesia that was virtually destroyed in 1883 by one of the world's most violent eruptions.
See more »Geography of Matsu Island
Matsu Island, the largest of the six Matsu islands, which cover 12 square miles (31 km2) in the Taiwan Strait.
See more »Geography of Moluccas
Moluccas, or Maluku, a group of islands that forms a province in eastern Indonesia.
See more »Geography of Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn Island, a volcanic island in the South Pacific Ocean just south of the Tropic of Capricorn and midway between Australia and South America.
See more »Geography of Polynesia
Polynesia, the group of major island systems in the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii, Tuvalu, Tonga, French Polynesia and others.
See more »Geography of Quemoy Island
Geography of Quemoy Island, the largest of the six Quemoy islands, which cover 60 square miles (155 km2) in the Taiwan Strait.
See more »Geography of Sakhalin Island
Sakhalin, a Russian island off the northeastern coast of Asia. It lies between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, separated from Siberia by Tatar Strait and from Hokkaido, Japan, by La Perouse Strait.
See more »Geography of Sumatra Island
Sumatra, (Indonesian: Sumatera), the westernmost of the Greater Sunda Islands of Indonesia.
See more »Geography of The Kerguelen Islands
Kerguelen Islands, a French possession in the southern Indian Ocean about 1,200 miles (1,930 km) north of Antarctica.
See more »Geography of The Kuril Islands
Kuril (or Kurile ) Islands, a group of Russian islands in the Pacific Ocean. They extend in a chain for 730 miles (1,175 km) from the Kamchatka Peninsula on the north to the Japanese island of Hokkaido on the south.
See more »Geography of The Laccadive Islands
Laccadive Islands, or Cannanore Islands, a group of small coral islands and many reefs in the Arabian Sea, some 150 to 250 miles (240 to 400 km) west of the southwestern coast of India.
See more »Geography of The Loyalty Islands
Loyalty Islands, a group of coral islands in the South Pacific Ocean, forming part of the French Overseas Territory of New Caledonia.
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