Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago is the collective name given to the islands of Southeast Asia whose indigenous people are mainly Austronesian peoples. The term Nusantara is often used with the same meaning in parts of the region other than Indonesia; in 21st-century Indonesian, it usually refers to Indonesia only.
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  • Type: Archipelago
  • Description: archipelago between mainland Southeast Asia and Australia
  • Also known as: “archipel Indien”, “archipel Malais”, “Archipielago malayo”, “Arquipélago indo-australiano”, “Arquipélago Indonésio”, “Arşipela Endonezya”, “Arşipela Malay”, “Arşîpela Malay”, “Asiatic Archipelago”, “Asie du Sud-Est insulaire”, “East Indian Archipelago”, “East Indies”, “Eastern Archipelago”, “Indian Archipelago”, “Indies Orientales”, “Indischer Archipel”, “Indonesia”, “Indonesischer Archipel”, “Inselindien”, “Insulásia”, “Insulhindio”, “Insulindia”, “Itä-Intian saaristo”, “Malaisie”, “maláj szigetcsoport”, “Malaja Arkipelago”, “Malajų salos”, “Malasia”, “Malaysia”, “Mundo malaio”, “Nusantara”, “Ostindische Inseln”, “Ostindischer Archipel”, “Primorska jugoistočna Azija”, “Quần đảo Malay”, “Sudeste Asiático marítimo”, “Sudeste Asiático Marítimo”, “Südostasiatischer Archipel”, “Μαλέι”, “Индийский архипелаг”, “Индонезийски острови”, “Индонезийския архипелаг”, “جزر الهند الشرقية”, “عالم الملايو”, “مجمع الجزایر مالایی”, “مجمع‌الجزایر مالایا”, “مجمعالجزایر مالایی”, “مجمع‌الجزایر مالی”, and “말레이 군도”

Malay Archipelago

Latitude of center
0°
Longitude of center
120° east
Elevation
515 metres (1,690 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 931544418
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Geo­Names ID
1636682
Wiki­data ID
Q208643
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Malay Archipelago” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pulo-pulo Meulayu”
  • Afrikaans: “Maleise argipel”
  • Afrikaans: “Maleise Argipel”
  • Arabic: “أرخبيل الملايو”
  • Armenian: “Մալայան կղզեխումբ”
  • Asturian: “archipiélagu malayu”
  • Asturian: “Archipiélagu malayu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Malay arxipelaqı”
  • Bashkir: “Малай архипелагы”
  • Basque: “Malaiar artxipelagoa”
  • Basque: “Malaysiar artxipelagoa”
  • Belarusian: “Малайскі архіпелаг”
  • Belarusian: “Малайскі архіпэляг”
  • Bengali: “মালয় দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Indonezijski arhipelag”
  • Bosnian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Bulgarian: “Малайски архипелаг”
  • Catalan: “arxipèlag malai”
  • Catalan: “Insulíndia”
  • Cebuano: “Malay Archipelago”
  • Cebuano: “Mga isla sa Malayo”
  • Central Bikol: “Kaislahan na Malay”
  • Chinese: “馬來群島”
  • Chinese: “马来群岛”
  • Croatian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Croatian: “Malajsko otočje”
  • Czech: “Malajské souostroví”
  • Dutch: “Indische Archipel”
  • Dutch: “Maleise archipel”
  • Esperanto: “Malaja insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Malaja Insularo”
  • Estonian: “Malai saarestik”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Malay Archipelago”
  • Finnish: “Malaijien saaristo”
  • French: “Insulinde”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago Malaio”
  • Georgian: “მალაის არქიპელაგი”
  • German: “Malaiischer Archipel”
  • Greek: “Μαλαϊκό Αρχιπέλαγος”
  • Hebrew: “הארכיפלג המלאי”
  • Hindi: “मलय द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “maláj szigetvilág”
  • Hungarian: “Maláj szigetvilág”
  • Icelandic: “Malajaeyjar”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Melayu”
  • Irish: “oileánra Mhalae”
  • Italian: “arcipelago malese”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago malese”
  • Japanese: “マレー諸島”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Malay arxipelagı”
  • Kazakh: “Малай архипелагы”
  • Khmer: “ប្រជុំកោះម៉ាឡេ”
  • Kirghiz: “Малайя архипелагы”
  • Korean: “말레이 제도”
  • Kurdish: “Arxîpela Malay”
  • Kurdish: “Komgirava Malezyayê”
  • Kurdish: “ئارخیپەلا مالای”
  • Latin: “Archipelagus Malaicus”
  • Latvian: “Malajas arhipelāgs”
  • Lithuanian: “Malajų salynas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Malayseschen Archipel”
  • Macedonian: “Малајски Архипелаг”
  • Malagasy: “Vondro-nosy Maley”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Melayu”
  • Malayalam: “മലയ് ദ്വീപസമൂഹം”
  • Marathi: “मलाय द्वीपसमूह”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mā-lài Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Má-lâi kûn-tó”
  • Northern Frisian: “Malaiisk Archipeel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Malayarkipelet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malayarkipelet”
  • Norwegian: “Malayarkipelet”
  • Ossetian: “Малайы архипелаг”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر مالایی”
  • Polish: “Archipelag Malajski”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago malaio”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Malaio”
  • Russian: “Малайский архипелаг”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Indonesisken Archipel”
  • Serbian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Serbian: “Малајски архипелаг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Slovak: “Malajské súostrovie”
  • Slovenian: “Malajsko otočje”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago malayo”
  • Swahili: “Funguvisiwa la Malay”
  • Swedish: “Malajiska arkipelagen”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Malay”
  • Tamil: “மலாய் தீவுக்கூட்டம்”
  • Tatar: “Малай архипелагы”
  • Thai: “กลุ่มเกาะมลายู”
  • Turkish: “Malay takımadaları”
  • Turkish: “Malezya Takımadaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Малайський архіпелаг”
  • Urdu: “مالے مجمع الجزائر”
  • Urdu: “مالے مجموعہ الجزائر”
  • Uzbek: “Malay arxipelagi”
  • Venetian: “arcipełago małeze”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Mã Lai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Malay”
  • Welsh: “Ynysfor Maleia”
  • Western Frisian: “Yndyske Arsjipel”
  • Western Frisian: “Ynjeske Arsjipel”
  • Wu Chinese: “馬來群島”
  • Yakut: “Малай архипелага”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬來群島”

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