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nouna group of many islands in a large body of watertype of:
Definition that contains archipelago
- japan a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
- philippines an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands
- indonesia a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
- nippon a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
- borneo 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
- malayan of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
- malayan a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
- timor an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands
- malay a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
- malay of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago