The
Greater Sunda Islands are a group of large
islands within the
Malay Archipelago. Many are included in present-day Indonesia:
Java, smallest but by far the most populous;
Sumatra in the west, directly across the
Strait of Malacca from Malaysia; large
Borneo, the Indonesian sector of which is called
Kalimantan; and wishbone-shaped, distended
Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) to the east. Under some definitions, only Java, Sumatra and Borneo are included in the Greater Sunda Islands.