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This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.
[1] [2] Japan is the third-largest island country in the world, behind Indonesia and Madagascar. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia. According to a survey conducted by the Japan Coast Guard in 1987, the number of islands in Japan was 6,852. At that time, the survey only counted islands ...
Slightly more than 8,000 islands had some form of buildings in 2013, most uninhabited. More than 1.6 million (17% of population) people lived on an island in 2013. This figure is high because there are densely populated islands in the larger cities of Sweden. List [60] Scotland See United Kingdom. 900 118 More than 900 islands, of which 118 are ...
Hokkaidō has the third-largest population of Japan's five main islands, with 5,111,691 people as of 2023. [ 3 ] [ 53 ] It has the lowest population density in Japan, with just 61 inhabitants per square kilometre (160/sq mi).
Okinawa Prefecture (Japanese: 沖縄県, Hepburn: Okinawa-ken, Okinawan: Uchināchin [2]) is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. [3] It has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km 2 (880 sq mi).
Japan has 14,125 [1] islands, approximately 430 of which are inhabited. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, or claimed by, Japan . List
The Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main islands of Japan. ... with 37.4 million people (2024). [245] Japan is an ethnically ... rate (2 per 1,000 live ...
The 2010 census shows 90.7% of the total Japanese population live in cities. [27] Japan is an urban society with about only 5% of the labor force working in agriculture. Many farmers supplement their income with part-time jobs in nearby towns and cities.