An island of Indonesia separated from Borneo by the Java Sea, an arm of the western Pacific Ocean. Center of an early Hindu-Javanese civilization, Java was converted to Islam before the arrival of the Europeans(mainly the Dutch) in the late16th century.

• 爪哇印度尼西亚的一个岛屿，被大西洋西部的爪哇海从婆罗洲分开。它是早期印度－爪哇文化的中心，后来改信伊斯兰教，直到16世纪晚期欧洲人（主要是荷兰人）到来