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Sumba is an Indonesian Island . It has an area of 11,153 sq km. Located to the northwest is Sumbawa . To the northeast is Flores . To the east is Timor . To the south and southeast is Australia . It is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara . The largest town on the island is Waingapu . Before colonization, the island was inhabited by several small ethnolinguistic groups, some of which may have had tributary relations to the Majapahit Empire . In 1522 the first Europeans arrived and in 1866 it belonged to the Dutch East Indies , although the island did not come under real Dutch administration until the twentieth century. The Sumbanese speak a variety of closely related Austronesian languages, are a mixture of Malay (Austronesian) and Melanesian stock of people. Twenty-five to thirty percent of the population practises the animist Marapu religion. The remainder are Christian, a majority being Dutch Calvinist , a substantial minority Roman Catholic . A small number of Muslims can be found along the coastal areas. EXTERNAL LINK Anahumba portal |
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