Flores

Flores

Topography of Flores
Geography
Location	Southeast Asia
Coordinates	8°40′29″S 121°23′04″E / 8.67472°S 121.38444°E / -8.67472; 121.38444
Archipelago	Lesser Sunda Islands
Area	14,731.67 km2 (5,687.93 sq mi)[1]
Area rank	60th
Length	354 km (220 mi)
Width	66 km (41 mi)
Highest elevation	2,370 m (7780 ft)
Highest point	Poco Mandasawu
Administration
Indonesia
Province	East Nusa Tenggara
Largest settlement	Maumere (pop. 91,550)
Demographics
Population	1,962,405 (mid 2023)
Pop. density	133.2/km2 (345/sq mi)

Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Administratively, it forms the largest island in the East Nusa Tenggara Province. Including Komodo and Rinca islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 14,731.67 km², and the population was 1,878,875 in the 2020 Census (including various offshore islands); the official estimate as of mid-2023 was 1,962,405.^[2] The largest towns are Maumere and Ende. The name Flores is of Portuguese origin, meaning "Flowers".

Flores is located east of Sumbawa and the Komodo Islands, and west of the Solor Islands and the Alor Archipelago. To the southeast is Timor. To the south, across the Sumba Strait, is Sumba Island, and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.

Among all islands containing Indonesian territory, Flores is the 10th most populous after Java, Sumatra, Borneo (Kalimantan), Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bali, Madura, Lombok, and Timor and also the 10th biggest island of Indonesia.

Until the arrival of modern humans, Flores was inhabited by Homo floresiensis, a small archaic human.