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Kalimantan

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indonesian borneonounthe part of indonesia on the southern side of the island of borneo
borneonounA Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.

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borneonounA Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.
indonesian borneonounthe part of indonesia on the southern side of the island of borneo
east malaysianounThe eastern half of the country of Malaysia on the island of Borneo, consisting of Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan.
celebes seanounThe area of the western Pacific Ocean bounded by the Sulu Sea, the island of Borneo, the Sangihe Islands and Sulawesi.
amboynanounThe reddish, mottled or striped wood of this tree, used in cabinet-making.
butonnounAn island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.
bangkanounAn island lying east of Sumatra, Indonesia.
bajaunoun(ethnology) The indigenous people native to Bajau island (part of modern-day Indonesia), these ethnic group nowadays predominantly inhabit the Bajau island and its adjacent regions in Indonesia and also expanded to the southern Philippines.
butungnounAlternative form of Buton (“Indonesian island”). [An island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.]
belitungnounAn island on the east coast of Sumatra, Indonesia in the Java Sea.
big islandnoun(informal) An island of Islands of Hawaii, Pacific, Hawaii, United States; The largest of the Hawaiian Islands, for which the island chain and the state are named.
biaknounA language spoken on this island and others near it.
tanimbarnoun(attributive) Tanimbar Islands.
palinounA Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of Theravāda Buddhism.
komodonouna Komodo dragon
babar islandsnounAn island group in Maluku Province, Indonesia.
south china seanounThe western arm of the Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland and Taiwan, Borneo and the Philippines.
island southeast asianounA subregion of Southeast Asia, comprising the tropical islands lying between mainland Asia, New Guinea, and Australia.
boetonnounAlternative form of Buton (“Indonesian island”). [An island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi.]
malesianounA biogeographical region straddling the boundaries of the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones.

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