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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 fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Australia, 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 ...
Honshu has a total population of 104 million people, according to a 2017 estimate, 81.3% of the entire population of Japan. [11] The largest city is Tokyo (population: 13,988,129), [ 20 ] the capital of Japan and part of the Greater Tokyo Area , the most populous metropolitan area in the world.
Japan has 14,125 [1] islands, approximately 430 islands are inhabited. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, or claimed by, Japan . List
Chichijima (父島) is the largest and most populous island in the Japanese archipelago of Bonin or Ogasawara Islands.Chichijima is about 240 km (150 mi) north of Iwo Jima. 23.5 km 2 (9.1 sq mi) in size, the island is home to about 2,120 people (2021). [1]
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 ...
2 Most densely populated islands (over 1,000 people per km 2) 3 Densely populated archipelagos. 4 Other notable islands. ... Rokkō Island Japan: Osaka Bay: 19,253 (2017)
Yonaguni (Japanese: 与那国島, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima, Yonaguni romanization: Dunan-chima, older Juni-shima, [2] Yaeyama romanization: Yunoon-zïma, Okinawan romanization: Yunaguni-jima), one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost inhabited [3] island of Japan, lying 108 kilometers (58 nmi; 67 mi) from the east coast of Taiwan, between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.