OrangUtan Kingdom : Animalia Phylum : Chordata Class : Mammalia Order : Primates Suborder : Haplorhini Infraorder : Simiiformers Family : Hominidae Subfamily : Ponginae Genus : Pongo The orangutans (also spelled orang-utan , orangutang , or orang-utang ) are the two exclusively Asian s pecies of extant great apes. Native to I ndonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are currently found in only the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Classified in the genus Pongo , orangutans were considered to be one species. Since 1996, they have been divided into two species: the Bornean orangutan ( P. pygmaeus ) and the Sumtran orangutan ( P. abelii ). In addition, the Bornean species is divided into three subspecies. Based on genome sequencing, the two extant orangutan species evidently diverged around 400,000 years ago. The orangutans are also the only surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae, whic