What is malay archipelago
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The Malay archipelago is the archipelago between mainland Indochina and Australia. It has also been called the Malay World, Nusantara, Indo-Australian Archipelago, East Indies, Spices Archipelago and other names over time. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages.
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The Malay Archipelago refers to the archipelago between mainland Southeastern Asia and Australia.[3]
It has also been called the East Indies, the Indo-Australian Archipelago, Indonesian Archipelago and other names over time.
The archipelago is between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The group has over 25,000 islands. It is the largest archipelago by area, and third by number of islands in the world. It includes Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, East Malaysia and East Timor.[4]
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