Malacca Island
Native name: Pulau Melaka | |
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Malacca Straits Mosque and apartments on Malacca Island seen from the nearby pier on the mainland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Strait of Malacca |
| Coordinates | 2°10′46.98″N 102°15′3.82″E / 2.1797167°N 102.2510611°E |
| Area | 1.2 km2 (0.46 sq mi) |
| Administration | |
| State | Malacca |
| District | Melaka Tengah |
| Mukim | Malacca City Centre |
| Additional information | |
| Time zone | |
| Postal code | 75000 |
Malacca Island (Malay: Pulau Melaka) is a man-made islet approximately 0.5 km off the coast of Malacca City – the capital city of the Malaysian state of Malacca, just south of its business district of Taman Melaka Raya. It is formed from the reclamation of land around an islet named Jawa Island (Malay: Pulau Jawa, not to be confused with Indonesia's Java Island and originally a tidal island) in the mid-1990s, when the Malacca State Government under then Chief Minister, Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik was planning to turn it into a "Malacca Manhattan" for business and recreational purposes.