Borneo

Borneo is a giant among the island of the world. Only Greenland and New Guinea are larger. Borneo is big enough to hold all of the states of Texas, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The island has an area about 743,000 square kilometers (287,000 square miles).

Borneo straddles the equator at the western end of the Pacific Ocean. Its neighbors to the northeast are the Philippines Islands. To the west, across the South China Sea, are Vietnam and the narrow finger of the Malay Peninsula. To the south and southwest are the large Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. To the east are Celebes; the fables sp0ice islands, the Moluccas; and New Guinea.
Politically Borneo is made up of the territories of three countries. Sabah (formerly North Borneo) and Sarawak are states of Malaysia. Brunei is tiny sultanate (ruled by a sultan). The third political unit of Borneo is known as Kalimantan and is part of Indonesia