of East Nusa Tenggara. Timor-Leste, previously under Indonesian control from 1975 to 1999, has a population of around 1.3 million. Within West Timor lies an exclave of Timor-Leste called Oecusse District. The island had previously been divided between the Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires.

History

The earliest historical record about Timor island is the 13th-century Chinese Zhu Fan Zhi,

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