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This a list of significant islands, island groups, and archipelagos ordered alphabetically by country or region. (See also island
The 100 biggest islands range from the likes of expansive Greenland to independent Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands. But look a little closer, and you’ll see just how much the top contender outshines the rest.
Several islands are quite large in their own right—the most imposing being Greenland, New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar, and Baffin Island. Listed below are the 10 largest islands in the world by area followed by the next 15 largest islands.
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water, and by other classifications. For rank-order lists, see the other lists of islands below.
List of islands by area. Dymaxion map (Fuller map) with continental landmasses (I,II,III,IV) and largest islands (1–30) roughly to scale. This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown.
Named in 1852 for Francis Egerton, 1st earl of Ellesmere, this desolate island, located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is believed to have been visited by Vikings in the 10th century. Discover the ten biggest islands in the world by land mass.
The most populated island is Indonesia’s Java with 143 million people. The least populated is Canada’s Banks Island with just 136. The United States does not have a single island in the top 26, with the largest being Hawai’i (Big Island), which is only the 76th largest in the world.
Greenland is the world’s largest island, with an area of over 2.1 million km2 (0.8 million sq mi), while Australia, the world’s smallest continent, has an area of 7.6 million km2 (3.3 million sq mi), but there is no standard of size that distinguishes islands from continents.
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Many island countries are small and sparsely populated, but some are large and rank among the world's most populous countries. There are island countries in every part of the world, in each of the world's oceans.