Borneo
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- proper noun
- /ˈbɔrnioʊ/
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Borneo
- Many tourists visit Borneo to explore its unique rainforests and diverse wildlife.
- Indonesian Borneo
- Malaysian Borneo
- Borneo's rainforest
So I thought we, we, we learnt tracking in the jungles of Borneo.
- So I thought we, we, we learnt tracking in the jungles of Borneo.
- So I was born in the state of Sarawak, which is on the island of Borneo.
- Now name some countries, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Borneo, Fiji.
Examples
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The Proboscis Monkey is an endangered reddish-brown Old World monkey that is only found in Borneo.
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Our corporations ravage the sacred rainforests of Borneo and pollute the rivers of Southeast Asia.
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Lots of people go to Borneo for a vacation.
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I learned this from a native in Borneo.
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An American writer and instructor living in Borneo, Robert Raymer has published short stories in numerous literary journals.
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Next on our itinerary is the third-largest island in the world, Borneo, another haven for illegal logging.
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The southern two-thirds of Borneo constitute the Indonesian state of Kalimantan.
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Like most of the other non-Muslim peoples of Borneo, Selako cultivate swidden fields of dry rice and other crops.
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The Pygmy is a subspecies of the Asian elephant found only in North Borneo (East Sabah and extreme North Kalimantan).
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The Sebangau catchment in central Kalimantan supports the largest single orangutan population in Borneo (Morrogh-Bernard et al. 2003).
Academic text (2011)
Compounds
The southern part of the island of Borneo that belongs to Indonesia, called Kalimantan
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Borneo likely comes from the old name for the kingdom of Brunei, which early European sailors wrote as Bornéu. So the island was named after that coastal kingdom, which helps you remember that Borneo is the big island shared by Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia.