What is "wallacea"

Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves. Wallacea includes Sulawesi, the largest island in the group, as well as Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, Timor, Halmahera, Buru, Seram, and many smaller islands.

The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali) to the west, and Near Oceania including Australia and New Guinea to the south and east. The total land area of Wallacea is 347,000 km².

Provinces and major islands in Wallacea

Sulawesi
6 provinces

North Maluku, including Halmahera

Maluku, excluding Aru Islands

West Nusa Tenggara
( Lombok, Sumbawa)

East Nusa Tenggara, including
Komodo, Flores, Sumba, West Timor
East Timor (independent)