What is Timor?
[[File:Timor.png|thumb|right|250px|Topography of Timor]] [[File:Timor island2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Satellite image of Timor]] '''Timor''' is an [[island]] at the south end of the [[Malay Archipelago]], north of the [[Timor Sea]]. It is divided between the independent state of [[East Timor]], and [[West Timor]], belonging to the [[Indonesia]]n province of [[East Nusa Tenggara]]. The island's surface is 11,883 square miles (30,777 [[square kilometre|km²]]). The name is a variant of ''timur'', [[Malay language|Malay]] for “east”; it is so called because it is at the east end of a chain of islands. {{coord|9|14|S|124|56|E|type:isle}} {{Asia-stub}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Divided regions]] [[Category:Lesser Sunda Islands]] [[Category:Geography of East Timor]] [[Category:East Nusa Tenggara]]