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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: “Asiatic Archipelago”, “East Indian Archipelago”, “East Indies”, “Eastern Archipelago”, “Indian Archipelago”, “Indonesia”, “Malasia”, and “Malaysia”

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”
  • Arabic: “جزر الهند الشرقية”
  • Arabic: “عالم الملايو”
  • Armenian: “Մալայան կղզեխումբ”
  • Asturian: “archipiélagu malayu”
  • Asturian: “Archipiélagu malayu”
  • Asturian: “Indies Orientales”
  • Azerbaijani: “Malay arxipelaqı”
  • Bashkir: “Малай архипелагы”
  • Basque: “Malaiar artxipelagoa”
  • Basque: “Malaysiar artxipelagoa”
  • Basque: “Nusantara”
  • Belarusian: “Малайскі архіпелаг”
  • Belarusian: “Малайскі архіпэляг”
  • Bengali: “মালয় দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Indonezijski arhipelag”
  • Bosnian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Bulgarian: “Индонезийски острови”
  • Bulgarian: “Индонезийския архипелаг”
  • Bulgarian: “Малайски архипелаг”
  • Catalan: “arxipèlag malai”
  • Catalan: “Insulíndia”
  • Cebuano: “Malay Archipelago”
  • Cebuano: “Mga isla sa Malayo”
  • Central Bikol: “Kaislahan na Malay”
  • Chinese: “Má-lâi kûn-tó”
  • Chinese: “馬來群島”
  • Chinese: “马来群岛”
  • Croatian: “Indonezijsko otočje”
  • Croatian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Croatian: “Primorska jugoistočna Azija”
  • Czech: “Malajské souostroví”
  • Dutch: “Indische Archipel”
  • Dutch: “Maleise archipel”
  • Esperanto: “Insulhindio”
  • Esperanto: “Malaja Arkipelago”
  • Esperanto: “Malaja insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Malaja Insularo”
  • Estonian: “Malai saarestik”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Malay Archipelago”
  • Finnish: “Itä-Intian saaristo”
  • Finnish: “Malaijien saaristo”
  • French: “archipel Indien”
  • French: “archipel Malais”
  • French: “Asie du Sud-Est insulaire”
  • French: “Insulinde”
  • French: “Malaisie”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago Malaio”
  • Georgian: “მალაის არქიპელაგი”
  • German: “Indischer Archipel”
  • German: “Indonesischer Archipel”
  • German: “Inselindien”
  • German: “Insulinde”
  • German: “Malaiischer Archipel”
  • German: “Ostindische Inseln”
  • German: “Ostindischer Archipel”
  • German: “Südostasiatischer Archipel”
  • Greek: “Μαλαϊκό Αρχιπέλαγος”
  • Greek: “Μαλέι”
  • Hebrew: “הארכיפלג המלאי”
  • Hindi: “मलय द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “maláj szigetcsoport”
  • Hungarian: “maláj szigetvilág”
  • Hungarian: “Maláj szigetvilág”
  • Icelandic: “Malajaeyjar”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Melayu”
  • Irish: “oileánra Mhalae”
  • Italian: “arcipelago malese”
  • Italian: “Arcipelago malese”
  • Italian: “Insulindia”
  • Japanese: “マレー諸島”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Malay arxipelagı”
  • Kazakh: “Малай архипелагы”
  • Khmer: “ប្រជុំកោះម៉ាឡេ”
  • Kirghiz: “Малайя архипелагы”
  • Korean: “말레이 군도”
  • Korean: “말레이 제도”
  • Kurdish: “Arşipela Endonezya”
  • Kurdish: “Arşipela Malay”
  • Kurdish: “Arşîpela Malay”
  • Kurdish: “Arxîpela Malay”
  • Kurdish: “Komgirava Malezyayê”
  • Kurdish: “ئارخیپەلا مالای”
  • Latin: “Archipelagus Malaicus”
  • Latvian: “Malajas arhipelāgs”
  • Lithuanian: “Malajų salos”
  • 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: “مجمع الجزایر مالایی”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر مالایا”
  • Persian: “مجمعالجزایر مالایی”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر مالایی”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر مالی”
  • Polish: “Archipelag Malajski”
  • Polish: “Nusantara”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago indo-australiano”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Indonésio”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago malaio”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago Malaio”
  • Portuguese: “Insulásia”
  • Portuguese: “Insulíndia”
  • Portuguese: “Mundo malaio”
  • Portuguese: “Sudeste Asiático marítimo”
  • Portuguese: “Sudeste Asiático Marítimo”
  • Russian: “Индийский архипелаг”
  • Russian: “Малайский архипелаг”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Indonesisken Archipel”
  • Serbian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Serbian: “Малајски архипелаг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Malajski arhipelag”
  • Slovak: “Malajské súostrovie”
  • Slovenian: “Malajsko otočje”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago malayo”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago malayo”
  • Swahili: “Funguvisiwa la Malay”
  • Swedish: “Malajiska arkipelagen”
  • Swedish: “Malay Archipelago”
  • 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”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Malay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropod-an Malay”
  • Welsh: “Ynysfor Maleia”
  • Western Frisian: “Yndyske Arsjipel”
  • Western Frisian: “Ynjeske Arsjipel”
  • Wu Chinese: “馬來群島”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬來群島”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Malay Archipelago”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.