Sumatra is an elongated landmass spanning a diagonal northwest–southeast axis. The Indian Ocean borders the northwest, west, and southwest coasts of Sumatra, with the island chain of Simeulue, Nias, Mentawai, and Enggano off the western coast.

2023年12月16日 · The explosion alone was heard as far west as Sumatra island, some 1,200 miles (2,000 km) away, and ashfalls were recorded on the islands of Borneo, Sulawesi, Java, and Maluku. Thick tropical rainforests cover much of the islands in Indonesia that eventually give way to coastal plains.

2025年1月6日 · Sumatra, Indonesian island, the second largest (after Borneo) of the Greater Sunda Islands, in the Malay Archipelago. It is separated in the northeast from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca and in the south from Java by the Sunda Strait.

2019年5月2日 · Sumatra is the sixth-biggest island on the planet occupying an area of approximately 182,812sq miles. It is one of the Greater Sunda Islands of the Malay Archipelago. Sumatra is one of the over 14,000 islands of the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia.

Sumatra is a region of Indonesia and the sixth largest island in the world. Mapcarta, the open map.

2024年12月6日 · Sumatra, the sixth-largest island globally, encompasses 182,812 square miles (473,481 square kilometers). This massive island contains vast rainforests, home to critically endangered species including Sumatran orangutans, tigers, and rhinoceros.

2023年11月10日 · This map shows where Sumatra is located on the World Map. You may download, print or use the above map for educational, personal and non-commercial …

Sumatra , Island (pop., 2000 including adjoining islands: 43,309,707), western Indonesia. It is one of the Sunda Islands and the second largest island of Indonesia. It is 1,060 mi (1,706 km) long and 250 mi (400 km) wide. A chief city is Palembang.

Few isles tempt the imagination with the lure of adventure quite like the wild land of Sumatra. An island of extraordinary beauty, it bubbles with life and vibrates under the power of nature. Eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis are Sumatran headline-grabbers.

Sumatra is an huge Indonesian island southwest of Southeast Asia and east of Java. Situated just a few miles across the important Straits of Malacca from Singapore and Malaysia, it is covered by mountains and plateaus in the west and wide, flat, swampy lowlands and brown meandering rivers in the east.