Editing Alor Archipelago

{{Short description|Archipelago at eastern Lesser Sunda Islands}}
[[File:Alor.png|thumb|400px|right|Location of the Alor Archipelago]]
[[File:Sirung volcano, Pantar island, Alor Archipelago, Indonesia.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Pantar, one of the islands]]
[[File:Kangge island, next to Pantar island, Alor Archipelago, Indonesia.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Kangge, one of the smallest islands in the archipelago]]

The '''Alor Archipelago''' ({{langx|id|Kepulauan Alor}}) is part of Indonesia and is located in the eastern part of [[Lesser Sunda Islands]].

[[Alor Island|Alor]] is the largest island in the archipelago which is located at its eastern end. [[Pantar]] is the second-largest island in the archipelago, situated between Alor and [[Lembata]]. Smaller islands in the group include [[Pura Island|Pura]], Reta, Ternate (not to be confused with [[Ternate]] in the [[North Maluku|North Moluccas]]), and [[Tereweng|Treweng]], all situated in the Pantar Strait between the two main islands, and Marisa, Rusa and Kambing off the west coast of Pantar in the Alor Strait. Administratively, the Alor archipelago forms its own [[Alor Regency|regency]] (Indonesian: ''kabupaten'') within the province of [[East Nusa Tenggara]].  The Regency is divided into seventeen [[districts of Indonesia|districts]] and 158 villages, and has an area of 2,928.88 km<sup>2</sup> and a population at the 2020 Census of 211,872;<ref>Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.</ref> the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 216,626.<ref>Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2023.</ref>

To the east of the archipelago is the [[Ombai Strait]], which separates it from the islands of [[Wetar]] and [[Atauro]], the latter belonging to [[East Timor]]. To the south, across the [[Strait of Alor]], lies the western part of [[Timor]]. To the north lies the [[Banda Sea]]. To the west lies Lembata and then the rest of the [[Sunda Islands]].

==External links==
* {{Wikivoyage-inline|Alor Archipelago}}
*[https://open.lnu.se/index.php/hn/article/view/262 Van Galen's Memorandum on the Alor Islands in 1946, part 1]
*[https://open.lnu.se/index.php/hn/article/view/276 Van Galen's Memorandum on the Alor Islands in 1946, part 2]
* [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2010.489356 Hans Hägerdal (2010) "Cannibals and pedlars: Economic opportunity and political alliance in Alor, 1600-1850", ''Indonesia and the Malay World'', 38 (111).]

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[[Category:Archipelagoes of Indonesia]]
[[Category:Lesser Sunda Islands]]
[[Category:Inner Banda Arc]]


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