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The name Borneo is the Malay term for this island. In the Indonesian language, it is called Kalimantan.
Borneo is the third largest island in the world. It is only smaller than Greenland and New Guinea. As Asia' s largest island, it is 20 times the size of Taiwan!

Borneo is located south of Taiwan at ca. 2,644 kilometers, if measured along a straight line. Part of the Malay Archipelago, it is a continental island.
The entire island of Borneo is located in the tropics.
The equator passes through the center, dividing the island into two, at the boundary of the southern and northern hemispheres.