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This is a list of countries by number of islands, with figures given for the numbers of islands within their territories. In some cases, this figure is approximate and may vary slightly between sources depending on which islands are counted. The criteria for inclusion appear to differ considerably between the countries so they are not necessarily directly comparable. Different languages use ...
Greenland is generally considered as the largest island on Earth and listed among the island territories. Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea is officially an unincorporated territory of the United States. Indonesia is the world's largest island country by area (1,904,569 km 2), and by total number of islands (17,504 islands). [4]
Location (total number of islands) Archipelago Sea (Åland Archipelago) 50,000 (Approx.) Finland: Canadian Arctic Archipelago: 36,563 Canada: Stockholm Archipelago ...
United States Minor Outlying Islands (the) [13] [ai] United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges, [14] Navassa Island, and Wake Island [c] [d] United States: UM: UMI: 581: ISO 3166-2:UM [aj] United States of America (the) the United States of America: UN member US: USA: 840: ISO 3166-2:US.us United States Virgin Islands – See Virgin Islands ...
List of archipelagos by number of islands; List of islands by name; Lists of islands; References This page was last edited on 13 December 2024, at 17:26 (UTC). Text ...
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. Lists of islands by country
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.
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...