Timor island

Timor is an island on the southern coast of Maritime Southeast Asia, withinside the north of the Timor Sea. The island is split among the sovereign states of East Timor at the Japanese component and Indonesia at the western component. The Indonesian component, additionally referred to as West Timor, constitutes a part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Within West Timor lies an exclave of East Timor referred to as Oecusse District. The island covers a place of 30.777 rectangular kilometers . The call is a variation of timur, Malay for "east"; it's so referred to as it lies on the Japanese cease of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Mainland Australia is much less than 500 km away, separated through the Timor Sea.

Timor and its offshore islands along with Atauro, a former vicinity of exile more and more more acknowledged for its seashores and coral, in addition to Jaco along side Wetar and the opposite Barat Daya Islands to the northeast represent the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregion. The herbal plants become tropical dry broadleaf forests with an undergrowth of shrubs and grasses helping a wealthy wildlife. This is one of the most beautiful islands in the region that any visitor should explore at least once.

Location: on the southern coast of Maritime Southeast Asia