Sundaland
Biogeographic region of Southeast Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Sunderland.
"Sundas" redirects here. For the Greater Sundas, see Greater Sunda Islands. For the Lesser Sundas, see Lesser Sunda Islands.
For the continental shelf of Southeast Asia, see Sunda Shelf.
Sundaland[1] (also called Sundaica or the Sundaic region) is a biogeographical region of South-eastern Asia corresponding to a larger landmass that was exposed throughout the last 2.6 million years during periods when sea levels were lower. It includes Bali, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra in Indonesia, and their surrounding small islands, as well as the Malay Peninsula on the Asian mainland.