Editing Timor (section)

== Geography ==
{{See also|Geography of Timor-Leste|Geography of West Timor}}

Timor is located north of [[Australia]] and [[Oceania]], and is one of the easternmost [[Sunda Islands]] and the easternmost of [[Lesser Sunda Islands]]. Together with [[Sumba]], [[Babar Island|Babar]] and associated smaller islands, Timor forms the southern outer [[archipelago]] of the [[Lesser Sunda Islands]] with the inner islands of [[Flores]], [[Alor Island|Alor]] and [[Wetar]] to the north, and beyond them [[Sulawesi]]. 

Timor is the principal island of the [[Outer Banda Arc]], which is being uplifted by arc-continent collision with the [[Australian continent]]. Timor consists mostly of rocks from the Australian continental margin that are accreted to the Banda Arc. It occupies a forearc position in front of the active volcanic arc that forms the islands in the Flores region to the north. The orientation of the main axis of the island also differs from its neighbors. These features have been explained as the result of being on the northern edge of the [[Indo-Australian Plate]] as it meets the [[Eurasian Plate]] and pushes into [[Southeast Asia]].<ref>Audley-Charles, M.G. (1987) "Dispersal of Gondwanaland: relevance to evolution of the Angiosperms" ''In'': Whitmore, T.C. (ed.) (1987) ''Biogeographical Evolution of the Malay Archipelago'' Oxford Monographs on Biogeography 4, Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 5–25, {{ISBN|0-19-854185-6}} Harris, R.A. "The Nature of the Banda Arc-Continent Collision in the Timor Region" ''In'' In: D. Brown and P.D. Ryan, Arc-Continent Collision, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-88558-0_7, Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 163-211.</ref> The climate includes a long dry season (April-November) with hot winds blowing over from Australia. Rivers on the island include the [[North Laclo River|North]] and [[South Laclo River]]s in Timor-Leste. The mountains, which reach up to nearly 3000m elevation are one of the most mature parts of the Banda Range, which stretches from Sumba to Seram. Mutis is the highest mountain in West Timor and Ramelau is the highest mountain in Timor Leste.

The largest towns on the island are the provincial capital of [[Kupang]] in West Timor, Indonesia and the Portuguese colonial towns of [[Dili]] the capital, and [[Baucau]] in Timor-Leste. Poor roads make transport to inland areas difficult, especially in Timor-Leste.<ref>{{Cite journal | jstor = 4029980| volume=15| issue = 3/4| pages=502–513| title = Post-Conflict Pro-Poor Private-Sector Development: The Case of Timor-Leste| journal = Development in Practice| last1 = Kusago| first1 = Takayoshi| year = 2005| doi=10.1080/09614520500075995| s2cid=55022366}}</ref> Sources of revenue include gas and oil in the Timor Sea, coffee growing and tourism.