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List. 32 islands and 208 islets; coastal islands/islets only. There are currently two islands and two banks in Barbados. An additional historical island (Pelican Island) no longer exists. Canada has several large inhabited islands, including Prince Edward Island, Vancouver Island, Montreal, and Manitoulin Island.
Although it hasn't one-tenth as many islands as Norway, Indonesia is the country in the world with the most inhabited islands. Over 6,000 of Indonesia's 17,508 islands are inhabited, contributing to the nation's 4th best 267 million residents. For comparison, in Norway, less than 1,000 islands are inhabited.
Largest armies in the world by active military personnel 2024. ... Sweden has the most islands with 267,570, the majority of which are uninhabited. Even the capital of Stockholm is built across a ...
180K. 200K. 220K. 240K. Island Countries 2024. An island country is a country that is made up of one or more islands, or land that is surrounded completely by water. Island nations are very unique because of their locations. The main supply of food is fish, and these countries rely heavily on imports from continental nations.
- Sweden - 267,570
- Norway - 239,057
- Finland - 178,947
- Canada - 52,455
- United States - 18,617
- Indonesia - 17,504
- Australia - 8,222
- Philippines - 7,641
- Japan - 6,852
- Chile - 5,000
One of earth's northernmost countries, Sweden has 221,831 counted islands, about 24,000 of which are open to the public through the country's Right of Public Access policy, which allows anyone to hike through lush forests and fields, and forage for berries or mushrooms without asking landowner permission, so long as they show respect for the natura...
Norway is renowned for its hundreds of thousands of islands, the most famous of which are the Lofoten Islands that dot the Norwegian Sea, above the Arctic Circle. The Lofoten Islands are being certified as a sustainable destination, which is a designation given to places that mitigate the negative impacts of tourism by preserving the natural enviro...
Like its neighboring countries of Sweden and Norway, Finland is made up of a large number of rocky islands off its coast, totalling 178,947, with many in the region of Archipelago Finland running from the country's southwestern coast to the Baltic Sea. Archipelago Finland includes the Aland Islands, at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. Ownership...
As the second-largest nation by land area at just under 3,860,000 square miles (10 million square km), Canada boasts a total of 52,455 islands in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, which helps account for its status as the country with the longest coastline in the world. Of its islands, three rank in the top 10 largest in the world: Baffin Is...
The United States claims ownership of 18,617 islands, including well-known locales like the Hawaiian Archipelago, and census data is collected from some of those island areas as well as its 50 states and the District of Columbia. These islands include Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern M...
Indonesia, known as the fourth most-populated nation in the world, includes about 17,504 islands in what is known as the largest single archipelago in the world. The Indonesian Archipelago consists of five major islands and 30 smaller groups of islands and islets, with about 6,000 islands being inhabited. The Indonesian islands straddle the equator...
Though technically a continent and not considered an island itself, Australia and its surrounding area is comprised of about 8,222 islands in the Pacific Ocean. Australia itself dominates the islands around its coastal fringe, which range in size from smaller rocks that are not covered by water at high tide to some that are twice the size of the Au...
The Philippines are one of the most renowned archipelagos, comprised of 7,641 islands southeast of the Asian mainland between Taiwan and Borneo. The islands are divided into three zones: Luzon in the north, Visayas in the central regions, and Mindanao to the south. Luzon is the largest island and lays claim to the capital city, Manila, whereas Visa...
Like the Philippines and Indonesia, the country of Japan is an archipelago, made up of 6,852 islands in the Pacific Ocean with the main four landmasses being Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. Nearly four-fifths of the islands topography is mountainous, with the Japanese Alps running down the centre of Honshu including the famed Mount Fuji, a c...
Home to at least 5,000 islands, Chile is known for Robinson Crusoe Island, the only inhabited island in the Juan Fernández Archipelago with a population of about 700. Most of the archipelago is filled with rich flora and fauna rather than people, lending the islands to plant species that rarely exist elsewhere. The islands of Chile, such as Chiloé,...
The northernmost countries, Norway, Sweden, Canada and Finland, captivate with a uniquely rugged landscape and have the most islands worldwide — by far. The dreamy island worlds of Southeast Asia come only in the second line. Here you will find a ranking of the 50 countries with the most islands in the open sea (without inland islands).
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Finland comes in third, home to 178,947 islands. Japan, a nation made up solely of islands, has the fourth most in the world, with 120,729 islands, 430 of which have residents. There's a steep drop to Canada and Chile in fifth and sixth places (52,455 and 43,471, respectively), followed by another noteworthy drop to the United States with ...
