Most Populous Islands on a World Map

With the help of a map, try to name the 100 most populous islands in the world.
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Some islands are visible on the map but many are not, so each island is represented by an orange circle
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Last updated: April 16, 2026
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First submittedJanuary 30, 2021
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Population
Island
145 m
Java
104 m
Honshū
66.4 m
Great Britain
64.3 m
Luzon
59.2 m
Sumatra
28.5 m
Madagascar
27.0 m
Mindanao
23.9 m
Taiwan
23.8 m
Salsette
23.7 m
Borneo
22.3 m
Hispaniola
21.9 m
Sri Lanka
20.2 m
Sulawesi
14.8 m
New Guinea
12.7 m
Kyūshū
11.3 m
Cuba
10.1 m
Hainan
8.06 m
Long Island
7.03 m
Ireland
5.89 m
Singapore
5.38 m
Hokkaidō
4.80 m
Sicily
4.66 m
Negros
4.52 m
Panay
4.32 m
Bali
4.31 m
Cebu
4.00 m
Madura
3.92 m
North Island
3.82 m
Shikoku
3.31 m
Lombok
3.29 m
Puerto Rico
3.18 m
Timor
2.95 m
Jamaica
2.89 m
Zhongshan (Macau)
Population
Island
2.63 m
Leyte
2.29 m
Zealand
2.04 m
Xiamen
2.01 m
Island of Montreal
1.83 m
Flores
1.76 m
Bhola Island
1.75 m
Samar
1.69 m
Manhattan
1.58 m
Sardinia
1.56 m
Haizhu
1.39 mil
Sumbawa
1.38 mil
São Luís
1.33 m
Mindoro
1.30 m
Okinawa
1.27 m
Hong Kong
1.27 m
Trinidad
1.22 m
Mauritius
1.21 m
Bohol
1.20 m
South Island
1.15 m
Batam
1.10 mil
Bahrain
1.09 m
Cyprus
1.01 m
Oahu
961 k
Bangka
907 k
Tenerife
897 k
Zanzibar (Unguja)
887 k
Palawan
870 k
Vancouver
862 k
Majorca
860 k
Penang
839 k
Gran Canaria
838 k
Réunion
763 k
Cangshan
Population
Island
760 k
São Vicente
756 k
Nias
707 k
Masbate
686 k
Sumba
662 k
Viti Levu
623 k
Crete
622 k
Jeju
615 k
Chongming
542 k
Tasmania
530 k
Jolo
525 k
Phuket
522 k
Newfoundland
514 k
New Britain
503 k
Zhoushan
496 k
Staten Island
490 k
Margarita
472 k
Sakhalin
468 k
Mactan
466 k
Funen
459 k
Basilan
450 k
Halmahera
447 k
Buton
441 k
Ambon
438 k
Île Jésus
434 k
Seram
423 k
IJsselmonde
420 k
Santa Catarina
407 k
Pemba
400 k
Sandwip
390 k
Martinique
386 k
Malta
383 k
Marajó
375 k
Iceland
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22 Comments
+13
Level 51
Jan 17, 2022
What did I gain from forcing myself to learn all of these? Nothing. However, fantastic quiz with a lot of effort put into its creation!
+12
Level 69
Jan 18, 2022
Thank you! Learning useless stuff for the sake of it is most of JetPunk in a nutshell lol
+6
Level 30
May 5, 2024
it's called passion for geography
+4
Level 74
Feb 3, 2022
Great quiz! Love having the map for this. My best score on the no-map version is 71, but I got 80 on this version because I could see which ones I was missing.
+2
Level 53
Oct 1, 2022
For Grande Comore You should accept Ngazidja (Traditional, correct way to spell it and how it appears on a good bit of maps, and Grand Comoro (Anglicized). Sat there and guessed both like 4 times and still got it wrong. Even googled both to make sure I wasn’t crazy they’re both correct ways to spell it alongside Grande Comore. Almost like accepting Côte d’Ivoire but not Ivory Coast if this were countries.
+3
Level 69
Oct 8, 2022
Didn't know that! I used the official type-ins provided by Jetpunk, and it seems they missed those variants. Fixed :)
+1
Level 66
Oct 1, 2022
Iceland?
+2
Level 69
Oct 8, 2022
It's really close between Iceland and Grand Comore for the 100th spot, but I took the answers for the quiz from this other quiz, which doesn't have Iceland on it.
+1
Level 70
Nov 4, 2023
Södertörn should probably been on the list. It is considered as an island by Statistics Sweden.
+2
Level 69
Nov 9, 2023
You can take it up with Wikipedia, because the data is taken from there (I try my best to be consistent with the original "Most Populous Islands" quiz).
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Level 70
Apr 16, 2026
Wikipedia list Södertörn as number 68.
+1
Level 69
Apr 16, 2026
I want this quiz to have the same data as Quizmaster's Most Populous Islands. Once he updates his quiz, I'll update mine as well :)
+2
Level 95
Nov 9, 2024
Love it. Should really be featured
+1
Level 23
May 1, 2025
No Australia?
+2
Level 69
May 3, 2025
Australia is usually classified as the smallest continent (at least in the English-speaking world), and I'm excluding continental landmasses on this quiz (to be more accurate, Quizmaster excluded them on his own "Most Populous Islands" quiz, and I just made a map version of it).
+1
Level 51
Feb 16, 2026
You have Martinique in there, but Guadeloupe is even more populated in the Lesser Antilles, it's second behind Trindad
+5
Level 85
Feb 16, 2026
Guadeloupe's population is too split up among several islands for any of them to make the list
+3
Level 75
Apr 17, 2026
Guadeloupe is an archipelago, the "main butterfly" of which is actually two islands (inaccurately named "Basse-Terre", the most montane, and "Grande-Terre" which is actually the slightly smaller one) separated by a narrow strait, the Rivière Salée.
+3
Level 82
Mar 31, 2026
Alternate quiz title: Name All The Islands of Indonesia and the Philippines
+1
Level 73
Apr 16, 2026
Södertorn Island in Sweden has a population of at LEAST 850.000. Should be on this list.
+2
Level 61
Apr 16, 2026
Please accept Laval for Île Jésus, as we mostly refer to it with this name here in Québec ⚜️
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Level 69
Apr 16, 2026
Okay! I've submitted the change, should be up any moment.