Sumba

:This article is about the Indonesian island. For the village in the Faroe Islands, see Sumba, Suduroy.

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Sumba is an Indonesian island. Located to the northwest is Sumbawa. To the northeast is Flores. To the

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east is Timor. To the south and southeast is Australia. It is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Before colonization Sunda was divided into several small Majapahit kingdoms. In 1522 the first Europeans arrived and in 1866 it belonged to the Dutch East Indies.

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It is principally inhabited by the Wewewa. The Sumbanese are a mixture of Malay (Austroean) and Melanesian stock of people. 65-70% of the Sumbanese practise the animist Marapu religion, with the remainder practising a mixture of Marapu with a thin veneer of Christianity. A small number of Muslims can be found along the coastal areas. The biggest towns on the island are Waingapu and Waikabubak.

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Indonesian: The word Indonesian may refer to:...

Island: An island or isle is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. Although seldom adhered to, it is also proper to call an emergent land feature on an atoll an islet, since an atoll is a type of islan...

Sumbawa: Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain with Lombok to the west and Flores to the east. Sumba is further offshore to the southeast. It is in the province of West Nusa Tenggara....