Indonesia:
- huge land area; multiple islands; as many as 17,500 islands but only a handful of large islands;
- five main islands
- Sumatra
- Java
- Sulawesi
- Borneo
- New Guinea
- geographically
- westernmost island: Sumatra
- westernmost island: south of Sumatra (Java)
- southern half of large island: Bornea Island (third largest island in the world) -- Kalimantan
- archipelago: large island -- Sulawesi
- far eastern island, east half -- the whole island is know as New Guinea; island shared with Brunei and Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Indonesia half is known as Papua;
Malaysia: very small country in / within region of Indonesia
- Peninsular Malaysia (extending from Thailand which in turns borders Cambodia, and Vietnam;
- East Malaysia on northern portion of Bornea
Singapore
- at the end of peninsular Malaysia
- a country;
- a main island;
- > 60 satellite islands/islets;
- one outlying islet.
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