苏门答腊岛（Sumatra）.docVIP

苏门答腊岛（Sumatra） Sumatra The ancient name for suvara DV Sumatra PA (Sanskrit: Golden Island), Chinese literature is also known as the Golden State, the Malay language called Pulaw Emas, also refers to Jinzhou, apparently because since ancient times, gold produced in the mountains of sumatra. In sixteenth Century, the reputation of the Golden Island attracted many Portuguese explorers to Sumatra for gold Survey Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world, Indonesias second largest island, after the island of Kalimantan (Borneo), the worlds largest islands of the Malay Archipelago belongs to the Sunda Islands he one of the economic position after the island of java. Northeast Malacca Strait and Malay Peninsula, west of India ocean, east of the South China Sea and Java island, Southeast and Java Remote access,. The length of the north and the south is 1790 kilometers, and the width of the thing is 435 kilometers. An area of 434 thousand square kilometers, including the island about 475 thousand square kilometers, accounting for 1/4 of the national land area. The middle part of the equator through the west half of the mountain longitudinal, there are more than 90 volcanoes, the highest peak of the volcano, 3805 meters above sea level. The eastern half is plain, South and wide north, narrow, about 100 kilometers wide. Perennial hot and rainy, the temperature difference is not large, rainfall is obvious difference. The annual rainfall in the west coast is 1000 millimeters, and the mountain area can reach 4500~6000 millimeters. The annual rainfall of 2300~3100 millimeters is over the northern slope of the mountain and the coastal plain, and the annual precipitation in the north and south ends of the island is 1500~1700 millimeters. There are many rivers, Mu River, batanghari River, Yindela girI, gunbar River, much to navigation. Tropical rain forests are vast, covering 60%. There are oil, coal, iron, gold, copper, calcium and other mineral deposits. Agricultural product