Greater Sunda Islands

The Greater Sunda Islands are four large tropical islands within the Indonesian Archipelago: Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and Sumatra. They are internationally recognised for their ecological diversity and rich culture. Together with the Lesser Sunda Islands to their southeast, they make up the archipelago known as the Sunda Islands. The group is mainly part of Indonesia, and each island is diverse in its ethnicity, culture and biological attributes. The islands have a long and rich history that has shaped their cultural backgrounds, and they are among the most populous and biologically important landmasses of maritime Southeast Asia, with Java the most populous island in the world and Borneo and Sumatra among the largest.