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Second largest island in the Malay Archipelago after Borneo with an area of 475,000 km2, Sumatra is the fifth largest in the world. It is the most westerly of the Sunda Islands and the closest to the Asian continent. Its general orientation is north-west/south-east, stretching between 95° and 107° longitude East. The city of Banda Aceh in the north and the Cape Cina in the south are 6° either side of the equator, i.e. to the latitudes of northern Malaya and north-west Java respectively (Fig.1).
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Laumonier, Y. (1997). Introduction. In: The Vegetation and Physiography of Sumatra. Geobotany, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0031-8_1
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