Complex sentence: Réunion (,; previously "Île Bourbon") is a French island with a population of 844,994 inhabitants (as of January 2014) located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island.
Split into simpler sentences: Réunion (,; previously "Île Bourbon") is a French island located in the Indian Ocean. It is situated east of Madagascar and about southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island.