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Indomalaya

The Indomalaya Ecozone was previously called the Oriental region.

It extends from eastern Iraq through the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia to southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Java, Borneo, Bali and the Philippines. It ends at the Wallace line, named after Alfred Russel Wallace.

The southeastern part of the zone, south and east from the base of the Malay Peninsula, is often treated as a sub-region, Malesia.

There is one endemic bird family - Irenidae - the leafbirds and fairy bluebirds. Also characteristic are pheasants, pittas, Old World babblers, and flowerpeckers.

See also:

List of Indomalaya ecoregions

Malesia

Sundaland

Ecoregions of India

Ecoregions of the Philippines

Indomalaya Terrestrial Ecoregions

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Andaman Islands rain forests (India) Borneo lowland rain forests (Indonesia, Malaysia) Borneo montane rain forests (Indonesia, Malaysia) Borneo peat swamp forests (Indonesia, Malaysia) Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests (India) Cardamom Mountains rain forests (Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam) Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests (Thailand) Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests (Thailand) Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests (India, Myanmar) Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests (Australia) Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests (India) Eastern Java-Bali montane rain forests (Indonesia) Eastern Java-Bali rain forests (Indonesia) Greater Negros-Panay rain forests (Philippines) Hainan Island monsoon rain forests (China) Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal) Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests (Myanmar) Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests (Myanmar) Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests (China) Kayah-Karen montane rain forests (Myanmar, Thailand) Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) Luang Prabang montane rain forests (Laos) Luzon montane rain forests (Philippines) Luzon rain forests (Philippines) Malabar Coast moist forests (India) Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests (British Indian Ocean Territory, India, Maldives) Meghalaya subtropical forests (India) Mentawai Islands rain forests (Indonesia) Mindanao montane rain forests (Philippines) Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests (Philippines) Mindoro rain forests (Philippines) Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar) Myanmar coastal rain forests (Myanmar) Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests (Japan) Nicobar Islands rain forests (India) North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India) North Western Ghats montane rain forests (India) Northern Annamites rain forests (Laos, Vietnam) Northern Indochina subtropical forests (China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam) Northern Khorat Plateau moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand) Northern Thailand-Laos moist deciduous forests (Laos, Thailand) Northern Triangle subtropical forests (Myanmar) Northern Vietnam lowland rain forests (Vietnam) Orissa semi-evergreen forests (India) Palawan rain forests (Philippines) Peninsular Malaysian montane rain forests (Malaysia, Thailand) Peninsular Malaysian peat swamp forests (Malaysia, Thailand) Peninsular Malaysian rain forests (Indonesia, Malaysia) Red River freshwater swamp forests (Vietnam) South China Sea Islands (disputed between China, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam) South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests (China, Vietnam) South Taiwan monsoon rain forests (Taiwan) South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (India) South Western Ghats montane rain forests (India) Southern Annamites montane rain forests (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests (Indonesia) Sri Lanka lowland rain forests (Sri Lanka) Sri Lanka montane rain forests (Sri Lanka) Sulu Archipelago rain forests (Philippines) Sumatran freshwater swamp forests (Indonesia) Sumatran lowland rain forests (Indonesia) Sumatran montane rain forests (Indonesia) Sumatran peat swamp forests (Indonesia) Sundaland heath forests (Indonesia) Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests (Bangladesh, India) Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests (Taiwan) Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests (Malaysia' Myanmar, Thailand) Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests (Cambodia, Vietnam) Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests (Cambodia, Vietnam) Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests (India) Western Java montane rain forests (Indonesia) Western Java rain forests (Indonesia)
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (India) Central Indochina dry forests (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) Chota-Nagpur dry deciduous forests (India) East Deccan dry-evergreen forests (India) Irrawaddy dry forests (Myanmar) Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests (India) Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests (India) Northern dry deciduous forests (India) South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests (India) Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand) Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests (Vietnam) Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests (Sri Lanka)
Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests
Himalayan subtropical pine forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan) Luzon tropical pine forests (Philippines) Northeast India-Myanmar pine forests (India, Myanmar) Sumatran tropical pine forests (Indonesia)
Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal) Northern Triangle temperate forests (Myanmar) Western Himalayan broadleaf forests (India, Nepal, Pakistan)
Temperate coniferous forests
Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal) Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (India, Nepal, Pakistan)
Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands (Bhutan, India, Nepal)
Flooded grasslands and savannas
Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh (India, Pakistan)
Montane grasslands and shrublands
Kinabalu montane alpine meadows (Indonesia)
Deserts and xeric shrublands
Deccan thorn scrub forests (India) Indus Valley desert (India, Pakistan) Northwestern thorn scrub forests (India, Pakistan) Thar desert] (India, Pakistan)
Mangrove
Godavari-Krishna mangroves (India) Indochina mangroves (Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam) Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves (Pakistan) Myanmar coast mangroves (India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand) Sunda Shelf mangroves (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia) Sundarbans mangroves (Bangladesh, India)

Terrestrial biomes

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests | Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests | Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests | Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests | Temperate coniferous forests | Boreal forests/taiga | Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands | Flooded grasslands and savannas | Montane grasslands and shrublands | Tundra | Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub | Deserts and xeric shrublands | Mangrove

Ecozones

Afrotropic | Antarctic | Australasia | Indomalaya | Nearctic | Neotropic | Oceania | Palearctic