Together, Indonesia’s islands form part of the Ring of Fire which includes about seventy-five percent of all the world's volcanoes. The islands of New Guinea and Borneo are two of the largest islands in the world. Indonesia's region of Papua shares the island of New Guinea with Papua New Guinea the region of Kalimantan shares the island of Borneo with Malaysia and Brunei. Indonesia’s main islands are Sumatera (473,606 sq km), Sulawesi (189,216 sq km), Papua (421,981 sq km), Kalimantan (539,460 sq km), Java (132,187 sq km), and the small but world-renown island of Bali. The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatera was added to the World Heritage List in 2004. The lush tropical forests of the islands provide refuge for the one-horned rhinoceros (Java) the orangutan (Kalimantan and Sumatera), the only great ape living naturally outside Africa the giant lizard known as the Komodo dragon (the Lesser Sunda Islands) and the Draco volans (flying dragon), a lizard which glides from trees and other high points.
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