Also called the Oriental Realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya extends from Afghanistan through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the ecozone boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia.

The province also includes the Lingga Islands to the south of the main Riau Archipelago, while to the northeast lies the Tudjuh Archipelago, located between Borneo and mainland Malaysia ; the Tudjuh Archipelago consists of four distinct groups of islands-the Anambas Islands, Natuna islands, Tambelan islands and Badas Islands-which were also attached to the new province, although they were not geographically part of the Riau Archipelago.

The Java Sea lies between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south ; Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east.

Borneo () is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

The island is surrounded by Borneo to the west, by the Philippines to the north, by Maluku to the east, and by Flores and Timor to the south.

The largest cities or towns in the area are on Maimbung and Jolo of the Sulu Archipelago, plus the larger island of Palawan to its north, the coastal regions of the westward-extending Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao, and the northern part of the island of Borneo were formerly parts of the thalassocratic Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo.

Gibbons occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java.

The SASR first saw action in 1965 as part of the British Commonwealth force stationed in north Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation.

Island forms include nasutus ( Philippine lslands from Mindanao to Luzon and north Borneo ), suluensis ( Sulu Island ), bentet ( Sunda Islands and Sumatra other than Borneo ) and stresemanni of New Guinea.

Percival's finalised report in the late 1937, did confirm that north Malaya was a strategic position for the conquest of Singapore and Borneo.

Continuing without Horsfall, Beebe and Blair traveled to Batavia in Java, to the island of Madura just to the north, and to Belitung between Borneo and Sumatra.

It is found from the lower Himalayas in north eastern India in a broad south easterly band down into central Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and northwestern Borneo in evergreen forest ( including bamboo forest ), clearings and scrub.

From 1964 until early 1966, limited numbers of Indonesian soldiers, " volunteers ", and Malaysian communist guerillas were infiltrated into both north Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, where they engaged in jungle warfare with British and Commonwealth soldiers deployed to protect the nascent Malaysia.

The South China Sea is to the north, the Java Sea is to the south, and the province is separated from Borneo in the east by the Karimata Strait.

The Spanish and the Portuguese, the first Europeans to arrive, landed in Minahasa via the port of Makasar, but also landed at Sulu Island ( off the north coast of Borneo ) and at the port of Manado.

Dalrymple who made a treaty of allegiance in 1761 with Sulu, had to make a similar agreement with the rulers of Tempasuk and Abai on the north Borneo coast in 1762.

or locally in north Borneo mean buy or lease ALL, and not part of something, paying rental of $ 5000 per year is the clear evident of lease and not sale ).

The Rungus of Sabah in north Borneo build a type of longhouse with rather short stilts, the house raised three to five feet of the ground, and walls sloped outwards.

c. The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within the Andamans, Nicobars, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China south of 16 degrees north latitude, Malaya, Borneo, Netherlands Indies, New Guinea, Bismarcks and the Solomons, shall surrender to the Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia Command.

The sambar inhabits much of southern Asia ( as far north as the south-facing slopes of the Himalayan Mountains ), mainland Southeast Asia ( Burma, Thailand, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula ), southern China ( including Hainan Island ), Taiwan, and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia.

* M. m. rubidus, north Borneo

During the driest of the Pleistocene era the catchments forming west Borneo and the majority of Sumatra emptied through the Great Sunda River which arose between Belitung Island and Borneo flowing north east between the North and South Natuna Islands.

Dutch East Indies, British Borneo, Labuan, Sarawak, Brunei, the Cocos and Christmas Islands, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Portuguese Timor ( to be purchased from Portugal ).

The Indians named Borneo Suvarnabhumi ( the land of gold ) and also Karpuradvipa ( Camphor Island ).

The Javanese named Borneo Puradvipa, or Diamond Island.

Examples include Greenland, Long Island, and Sable Island off North America ; Barbados and Trinidad off South America ; Great Britain, Ireland and Sicily off Europe ; Sumatra, Borneo and Java off Asia ; and New Guinea, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island off Australia.

121 ° 04 ' E on its South coast, thence through Tapul and Lugus Islands and along the North coast of Tawitawi Island to Bongao Island off its Western end (), and from thence to Tanjong Labian, the Northeastern extreme of Borneo.

Early in 1942, Sakai was transferred to Tarakan Island in Borneo and fought in the Dutch East Indies.

Labuan was renamed Maida Island ( Pulau Maida, 前田島 ) after Marquis Toshinari Maeda, the first commander of Japanese forces in northern Borneo.

Finally, in May 1945, the division received orders to deploy overseas again and by 19 June they arrived on Morotai Island, where they began to prepare for operations in Borneo, as part of Operation Oboe.

A group of 10 Malay chieftains called Datus, fleeing from the island of Borneo settled in the Philippines, and were granted settlement by the Ati people, the tribes of Panay Island.

On 12 May 1945 at Tarakan Island, off North Borneo, Corporal Mackey led his men along a very narrow spur trail where it was almost impossible to move to a flank.

Anambas archipelago () is a small archipelago of Indonesia, located 200 nautical miles east of Batam Island in the South China Sea between the Malaysian mainland to the west and the island of Borneo to the east.

The expedition then headed back out into the Pacific, including a visit to Wake Island in 1841, and returned by way of the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, Borneo, Singapore, Polynesia and the Cape of Good Hope, reaching New York on June 10, 1842.

Sebatik Island ( Pulau Sebatik ) is an island off the eastern coast of Borneo, partly within Indonesia and partly within Malaysia.

The minimum distance between Sebatik Island and the mainland of Borneo is about one kilometer.

It is found in Bangladesh, southern China, northeastern India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula, the Riau Archipelago, Sumatra, Bangka Island, Belitung, Java, Bali, and Borneo.

The Amazonian southern lobe of the country, mostly south of the Guiana Highlands, is antipodal to the southeastern corner of Borneo.

The wintering range includes southern China, Taiwan, Korea, southern Japan, north-east India, Bangladesh and South-east Asia as far south as the Philippines, Borneo and Sumatra.

They range over the south of Europe, most of Africa, India, and the Maritime Southeast Asia as far east as Borneo.

The genus occurs in diverse habitats throughout much of south, east and southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Borneo, Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and New Zealand.

" Although it is most commonly practiced in Indonesia among the Chinese Indonesian communities, styles of kuntao are also practiced in Singapore, Malaysia ( especially Borneo ) and the Philippines, where Chinese martial arts were brought by merchants, labourers and other settlers from south China.

It migrates south to winter in the Indian subcontinent and South-east Asia with records as far south as Sri Lanka, Singapore and northern Borneo.

The Blue-winged Leafbird ( Chloropsis cochinchinensis ) is a species of leafbird found in forest and second growth from far north-eastern India and throughout Southeast Asia as far east as Borneo and as far south as Java.

Unlike the rest of the family, which is more widespread, the spiderhunters are confined to the Oriental zoogeographic region, occurring from India east to The Philippines and from the Himalayas south to Java ; they reach their greatest species diversity in the Thai-Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland ( the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali ) to the west, and Near Oceania including Australia and New Guinea to the south and east.

Subspecies malayensis is found from Selangor south into, Sumatra and Borneo.

By the 15th century, half of Luzon ( Northern Philippines ) and the islands of Mindanao in the south had become subject to the various Muslim sultanates of Borneo and much of the population in the South were converted to Islam.

This text, also called the History of Lambung Mangkurat, contains the history of the kings of Banjar and of Kota Waringin in southeast and south Borneo respectively.

This small partridge is a resident breeder in lowland rainforests in south Burma, south Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

North Java and south Borneo emptied in an easterly direction between southern Borneo and Java.

This Kapuas River should be distinguished from another Kapuas River, which starts on the other side of the same mountain range in central Borneo, but flows to the south, merging with the Barito River and discharging in to the Java Sea.