Komodo Island, Indonesia

Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara islands. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for native animals dragons. The island is also the Komodo National Park which is managed by the central government. Komodo Island is located east of the island of Sumbawa, which are separated by the Straits of Sape.

Administratively, the island including the District of Komodo, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the western end of the province of East Nusa Tenggara, bordering the province of West Nusa Tenggara.

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On the island of Komodo dragons animals live and breed well. Until August 2009, on the island there are about 1,300 individuals dragons. Coupled with the other islands, like the island of Rinca and Gili Motang, their number is about 2500 tails. There are also about 100 individuals in the Nature Reserve Wuul Wae dragons on the mainland island of Flores, but not including the Komodo National Park.

Besides Komodo, this island also store a variety of exotic flora Sepang wood used by local people as medicine and dye clothes, nitak bulb tree Sterculia believe are useful as drugs and tasty and good seeds like peas.

Komodo Island is also accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as in the Komodo National Park, with the island of Rinca, Padar and Gili Mota

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