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DIY: Max Area of an Island

Understand how to identify and calculate the maximum contiguous area of land represented by 1s in a binary matrix. Learn to traverse the grid to find connected cells forming islands and return the largest land area. This builds essential skills in grid traversal and connected component analysis, useful for coding interviews focused on algorithm design.

Problem statement

Given an m x n binary matrix grid containing 0s and 1s, you have to return the maximum contiguous area that is occupied by an island.

Each cell in the grid represents either land or water. A cell with 1 ...