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Countries With the Most Islands of at Least 10 Km²

Can you name the countries that have the most islands of at least 10 square kilometers in size?
INCLUDES OVERSEAS TERRITORIES
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Last updated: December 25, 2018
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First submittedOctober 12, 2016
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Rating4.86
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Country
388
Canada
305
United States
251
Indonesia
201
Russia
157
Chile
146
Denmark
116
Norway
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Country
101
United Kingdom
95
Australia
87
Philippines
86
Greece
79
Japan
78
France
62
China
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Country
52
Papua New Guinea
48
South Korea
43
Solomon Islands
41
Finland
40
Brazil
37
Mexico
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102 Recent Comments
Quizmaster
+34
Level ∞
Oct 24, 2016
Thanks to all the people who pointed out errors in the previous version. This version uses a better methodology. I started with this geospatial data. Then I wrote a program to count the islands. This time I wrote additional code to filter out islands less than 10 square km in size. Finally, I checked Wikipedia to see if there were any missing islands. This increased the # of islands in Greece, although certain countries might still be missing islands. I think this quiz is mostly accurate now!
sulfuratus
+8
Level 67
Jan 27, 2017
Did not expect the USA to be that high up on the list. And I cannot believe I forgot the Philippines. Dishonor on me and my family.
Malbaby
+7
Level 70
Jan 27, 2017
Wow, you really take quizzes seriously!
SpencerGT
+15
Level 68
May 2, 2021
There is no greater honor than getting quizzes right on the internet.
boracay99
+1
Level 70
Aug 25, 2021
Probably includes Except-Alaska-and-Hawaii :)
Antofagasta
+2
Level 71
Jan 27, 2017
Nice quiz. I think it was actually more interesting with the island size minimum which made it trickier.
thequizmaster15
+1
Level 51
Jan 27, 2017
Nice quiz
RealDad12
+2
Level 67
Jan 27, 2017
19/20. Never in a billion years would I have picked the Solomon Islands. Grrr.
kogatora
+4
Level 93
Sep 14, 2018
even though it has islands in the name?
Wistful
+5
Level 72
Nov 6, 2023
The Solomon Islands are surprisingly large. Its total area is larger than Haiti, for example.
catlover2496
+1
Level 44
Jan 27, 2017
Bahamas?
Gamer1162
+1
Level 59
Jan 27, 2017
Not enough to make the list
TVart
+3
Level 64
Jan 28, 2017
Good quiz, looking forward to seeing a 1 and 100 sq km version of this
LongHistory3
+1
Level 21
Jan 28, 2017
Finished at 53 seconds, i tried 5 times :)
senatvs
+1
Level 46
Jan 28, 2017
Wow Indonesia has 17,500 islands and only 251 are above 10 square km?
wakandakiing
+3
Level 56
Aug 25, 2021
yes, mostly are small islands and are inhabited :)
KataJ
+2
Level 36
Jan 29, 2017
Croatia has over 1000 islands
bridog8456
+15
Level 47
Aug 13, 2017
Perhaps try reading the instructions before commenting.
Sifhraven
+8
Level 72
May 5, 2019
perhaps try reading what he wrote before commenting. He just says how many islands croatia has. Not that it should be in the quiz or that the quiz is wrong.
HydratedMite
+2
Level 67
Nov 9, 2023
That's not what they were implying
eggsaregreat
+1
Level 43
Nov 1, 2024
why would he have mentioned it unless he thought it should be an answer in the quiz? bridog8456 is correct, he most likely didn't read the caveats
walmartdrivethru
+2
Level 24
May 8, 2019
@Sifhraven so right. also great burn XD
jajaco2017
+1
Level 57
Feb 4, 2017
the Maldives ?
tshalla
+10
Level 76
Jun 18, 2018
According to the criteria, the Maldives has no islands.
communisteggplant
+9
Level 73
Jun 18, 2018
Man, you hold grudges. Does this bother you in real life? Like, when someone asks how your day is, do you say, "well, my good man, according to this jerk's criteria the Maldives HAVE NO ISLANDS, so how can my day possibly be going well?"
Dollyfroggy
+3
Level 61
Apr 20, 2023
I can't say I see your point. tshalla's just explaining why the Maldives isn't on this quiz factually.
communisteggplant
+2
Level 73
Nov 8, 2023
Pretty sure there was a comment that merited the sarcasm that was deleted. So now it doesn't make any sense
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
May 5, 2019
According to your comments, either you cant read, or well something else is going on, but dont want to be too rude.

when someone says "islands smaller than 10km2 are excluded" and you accuse them of saying that those arent islands, something goes very wrong in your logic.

In an amusement park when it says girls shorter than 1.20m arent allowed in this ride. Would you complain to the owner of the park and accuse him of claiming that girls under 1.20m arent girls? sounds preposterous right?

(PS I changed it to girls instead of kids, because well it is not universally agreed upon what ages you are considered a kid)

zack22
+5
Level 67
Jan 31, 2022
I think tshalla's logic is that the title of the quiz just says islands, but then only counts islands of a certain criteria. It would be like a quiz saying "countries with most girls", but only counting girls over a certain height, and then someone saying "are you saying shorter girls aren't girls!?".

Personally, I can see the logical jump. (but I don't think there is anything wrong with the title or methodology)

jajaco2017
+1
Level 57
Feb 4, 2017
Denmark has 400 islands
bridog8456
+6
Level 47
Aug 13, 2017
Perhaps try reading the instructions before commenting.
Sifhraven
+5
Level 72
May 5, 2019
Again perhaps try reading the comments before commenting. People just might be proud of their countries and want to share that theirs have a lot of island eventhough not enough above 10km2 to make it to the list.

I could add, my country has about 45 (more like 55 if you count the ones that used to be islands but are now connected with dams for instances)

eggsaregreat
+1
Level 43
Nov 1, 2024
again, why would he mention it unless he thought it should be an answer in the quiz? please stop "correcting" everybody when neither of us know what they are implying.
walmartdrivethru
+1
Level 24
May 8, 2019
@Sifhraven thanks again for correcting everybody
Hugh2000
+2
Level 68
Mar 2, 2017
I already made this quiz, before this one was released.
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Sep 13, 2017
Yes Nelly and you went and made quizzes that I made long before........ that's the way it goes on jetpunk.
Stursi
+1
Level 40
Jul 18, 2017
Indonesia has over 18 000 islands
bridog8456
+5
Level 47
Aug 13, 2017
Perhaps try reading the instructions before commenting.
Sifhraven
+12
Level 72
May 5, 2019
ugh
doneill123
+2
Level 55
Sep 8, 2017
I actually completed this quiz first time, I can't believe it!!
leni
+2
Level 77
Jun 17, 2018
Here is some information you might want to take into consideration for your next version of this quiz:

6.000 islands

Greece has 6.000 islands in total, scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Seas, of which only 227 are inhabited. They take up 7,500 km of the country's total 16,000 km coastline. Spreading in two main seas, the Aegean and the Ionian Sea, the Greek islands are divided into smaller groups.

Therefore, even if you were to use only the 227 islands that are INHABITED -- it would put Greece up near the top.

Thank you

WhatIsLove
+13
Level 60
Jun 19, 2018
Sigh.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
May 5, 2019
sigh? I assume you are referring to that you think the poster is wrong and forgot to read the instructions? But he clearly says FOR YOUR NEXT QUIZ. So I dont see the need to sigh about anything ( ofcourse you could have plenty of other reasons in life to sigh, but that is not my bussiness)
BlackJohn
+1
Level 75
Dec 11, 2018
Κοπελιά, διάβασε ξανά τις οδηγίες..
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
May 5, 2019
.....Διαβάστε τι λέει. "για το επόμενο κουίζ"......
GeoGuy8
+7
Level 66
Jun 19, 2018
"Perhaps try reading the instructions before commenting." :D
GeoGuy8
+1
Level 66
Jun 19, 2018
Lol
GeoGuy8
+2
Level 66
Jun 19, 2018
Got 19/20, I'm with you, baconbburger... CURSE YOU SOLOMON ISLANDS (no insults or grudges to the Solomon Islands included in this message)!
JoshB04
+2
Level 26
Jul 23, 2018
WHY, SOLOMON ISLANDS, WHY!?
100Greats
+1
Level 57
Feb 10, 2019
Impressed by Quizmasters Islands quiz, surfed the web for lists of countries with most islands. The Telegraph and some other sources have recent lists. You can naturally ask what is the definition of an island? You are welcome to see the lists I used in "Top 10 Countries With the Most Islands"
Alssky
+1
Level 32
Apr 5, 2019
I'm Asian and only missed South Korea....... Well........
SirPhilippines
+1
Level 68
Jun 2, 2023
man... far shot bro...
bananacake
+1
Level 41
Apr 10, 2019
Really mad at forgetting Greece. Was thinking what European countries has a lot of islands and thought Croatia, France, Denmark, UK, Italy, Norway and Finland. Not sure why Greece didn't come to mind. anyway. 19/20 is more than I expected to get. I think being Australian helped me think about the Oceanic countries such as Solomon Islands which many missed.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
May 5, 2019
I allways have the same problem greece comes to mind last or not at all in quizes. This time it came to me, but as the last answers I was sure about, after that it was guess work.

I guess for me it might be that they dont totally feel part of western europe ( as much as the others) but also not really part of eastern europe. I have no other explanation. It keeps happening time and time again.

Algarve
+1
Level 70
May 5, 2019
The absence of Argentina here made me impressed. I thought they had some islands
MyNameWasTaken
+5
Level 46
Mar 27, 2021
But not the Falklands!
Caden
+1
Level 30
May 5, 2019
South korea has more than 48 islands, it has more than hundreds
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
May 5, 2019
And the Philippines has nearly 8,000, but most of them are not more than 10 square kilometers.
Sifhraven
+3
Level 72
May 5, 2019
My turn! : read the instructions ;) :D
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
May 5, 2019
Maybe it is allready done, but indeed an idea for a similar quiz to do this but then with inhabited islands?. Or just the named ones, surely that data is out there somewhere, I know it is for my country atleast.

Probably less hassle to get the data. And definitely less complaints and misunderstandings ;)

ammo55
+1
Level 47
May 6, 2019
Or maybe they could do a quiz inhabited islands over 10 sq KM
sorra
+1
Level 27
Aug 11, 2019
18/20. I missed out China and Papua New Guinea =(
dogmeat
+3
Level 68
Sep 3, 2019
I think New Zealand should make the cut.

Wiki lists 32 islands >10 kms plus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_New_Zealand

Then there are another seven in the Cooks which is not recognised as a sovereign nation on Jet Punk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands

waffpng
+1
Level 31
Apr 19, 2020
I got the solomon islands but missed Mexico..
emily56freeman56
+1
Level 45
Jul 16, 2020
Solomon islands, Damm i always underestimate them
Linen
+1
Level 53
Aug 18, 2020
can you accept solomon for solomon islands?
Clovis26
+1
Level 27
Aug 30, 2020
Damn It, Brazil! I live there but never thought it has more Islands than Mexico lol
JM00
+3
Level 58
Nov 8, 2020
There are more than 41 islands in Finland that are at least 10 square kilometres in size. According to Finnish Wikipedia, there are 67 islands located in the sea area and 59 islands in the inland water area. That makes 126 islands in total.
aboajaka
+2
Level 44
Dec 9, 2020
Nice effort but the poor resolution of the data kind of makes the quiz pointless. My country Sweden for example has almost 100 islands with an area over 10km2. Its not even on the list. I guess the same errors is expected for other countries.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Jul 1, 2021
if you take the total area of Sweden's islands and divide by the crazy high number of islands they claim the average size would be something like 2 football fields. Much less than 10 square km. Have you got a source for that 100 figure?
aboajaka
+2
Level 44
Nov 17, 2021
Yes, the swedish wiki page listes the biggest 50. The smallest of them is 22km2.

https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_%C3%B6ar_i_Sverige

Most swedish islands are small. But many are big.

https://www.dryden.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/blogg-flygfoto-02-stockholms-skargard.jpg

aboajaka
+4
Level 44
Nov 18, 2021
Also, what kind of logic is that. Do you think all islands are the same size? most are may be half a football field or smaller. thousands are 5-10 football fields. And with som many islands, a large number of the are bound to be larger than 10km2. The once mentioned in the wikipedia are just some of them.
zack22
+1
Level 67
Jan 31, 2022
I was curious by this and I am blown away by how many big islands Sweden has! I agree just by hand counting they have well over 50 islands that are large enough for this quiz.
nagerst
+1
Level 45
Oct 20, 2022
Norrbotten province (the northernmost province) alone has 17 030 islands with the largest inhabited one "Pitholmen" being 81km2. And all islands in norrbotten is growing fast as the land rises. Some islands might become peninsulars in a few hundred years. But for now norrbotten county has more islands than the enture USA.
hb0987654321
+4
Level 66
Dec 15, 2020
No Sweden??? Sweden has more than 200000 islands, surely there are some that are larger than 10km2
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Jul 1, 2021
Some. I found several lists that suggest Sweden has at least 20 islands bigger than 50 square km. But I haven't found a list that names and sizes more than 20. Have you?
Alexvucins
+4
Level 54
Aug 25, 2021
https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_över_öar_i_Sverige

The swedish Wikipedia page lists 50 islands with an area greater than 22 km2.

FacterLiger0804
+1
Level 40
May 25, 2021
Ayy, me country's on the list!

(FYI, I'm not where you think I live ;>)

y4r4
+6
Level 40
Aug 2, 2021
You are from:

Canada

United States

Indonesia

Russia

Chile

Denmark

Norway

United Kingdom

Australia

Philippines

Greece

Japan

France

China

Papua New Guinea

South Korea

Solomon Islands

Finland

Brazil

or Mexico

SpartanLlama
+1
Level 70
Jun 8, 2021
Missed Brazil and Mexico
Aficionado
+3
Level 73
Aug 25, 2021
India seems to be missing on this list. From my own research based on this article, I can safely say that India has more than 40 islands of area 10 sq km or larger. I have manually counted the minimum number of islands which could prove that India belongs in the top 20.

The exact number of islands could be much larger, since I didn't check the area of all the islands in the list. The majority (~35) of such islands are found in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I know this would be hard, but please update the quiz with the inclusion of India in the next update.

mrzli86
+1
Level 87
Aug 25, 2021
no Croatia..very close
maple
+1
Level 53
Aug 25, 2021
Ayy I got each one, at the end I just started guessing Oceanian countries because I was running out of time xD
BigGeographyGuy
+2
Level 62
Aug 26, 2021
I love the fact how 13/20 countries on this list are not Island Countries lol.
Mushroommate
+1
Level 39
Dec 25, 2021
Croatia has 1244 islands, just google it it's not that hard
EvanAviator
+2
Level 59
Dec 27, 2021
reading the caveats is also not that hard
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Dec 26, 2022
Perhaps try reading the instructions before commenting.
KrazyKookieKing
+1
Level 45
Sep 19, 2022
Sweden has 267,570 islands. But I guess it's not even close to the list.
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 64
Nov 28, 2022
Islands over 10 KM.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Dec 26, 2022
Perhaps try reading the instructions before commenting.
kogatora
+1
Level 93
Mar 20, 2023
See my comment above. It would depend on the cutoff but going down to some small size of island (cutoff not clear) the link in my comment has Sweden at #2 overall with 222,000 islands. This quiz is about 10km^2 and above.
KrazyKookieKing
+1
Level 45
Sep 19, 2022
I feel like the 10km limit mark can easily be avoided by google searching the number of islands for each country.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 61
Apr 20, 2023
That isn't necessarily very accurate and doing so will probably end up making a quiz from different sources, which may be inconsistent with one another (like being from different dates).
PringleG
+1
Level 41
Oct 3, 2022
yeah man sweden should be #1, or at least on this quiz.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Dec 26, 2022
Perhaps try reading the instructions before commenting.
anonymous810
+1
Level 44
Nov 14, 2022
I only missed Russia
Otterpotter63
+1
Level 57
Apr 13, 2023
Sweden should be here it has the most islands
Dollyfroggy
+3
Level 61
Apr 20, 2023
Please read either the instructions or at least a few comments before posting.
moret29
+1
Level 43
Aug 30, 2023
Where brazil, mexico, china islands?
baribarbart
+1
Level 22
Nov 8, 2023
First try got them all expect uk feel so stupid
connorwartzki
+1
Level 52
Nov 11, 2023
Australia has 130 islands over 10sq km. I just manually listed them all.
cyceryx
+1
Level 50
May 29, 2024
19/20 :3
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