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 (formerly Celebes) 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.
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