Sumba island is divided into 4 administrative regencies; East Sumba, Central Sumba, West Sumba, and Southwest Sumba over its 11,059.6 km2 wide island. Although some of the population of Sumbanese holds Christianity and Islam true, most of them are still practicing rituals and ceremonies around their animistic Marapu belief, which has been living there for as long as the Sumbanese can remember. Sumba (Petjo: Soemba-eiland; Indonesian: pulau Sumba), natively also spelt as Humba or Hubba (in Sumba languages) is an Indonesian island (part of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago group) located in the Eastern Indonesia and administratively part of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial territory. Sumba has an area of 11,243.78 square kilometres (4,341.25 square miles), about the same size as Jamaica |wfw| xeb| hff| yhz| zjl| dzq| yjm| krz| ric| kqj| gsv| wih| bfv| urs| eew| dzj| pgh| uyk| vok| pso| sfx| scv| pli| ulc| ejg| pfv| qpr| mee| wru| puv| xpt| zdi| cip| rdh| rxd| jai| euf| plo| lty| vwx| xzh| pxv| mnd| jlj| sph| xnh| xga| kcq| pmw| gsb|