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Java Sea

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A shallow sea of the western Pacific enclosed by the Indonesian islands of Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Sulawesi, sitting entirely on the Sunda continental shelf. Its warm, biologically rich waters support extensive fisheries central to the region's coastal economies.

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