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Countries with Multiple Populous Islands

Name the countries that have multiple islands or parts of islands with a population over 1 million.
Including external territories
Quiz by katalina
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Last updated: July 24, 2019
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# Islands
Country
12
Indonesia
9
Philippines
5
Japan
5
China
# Islands
Country
3
United States
2
Italy
2
United Kingdom
2
New Zealand
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Level 75
Mar 1, 2017
nice quiz!
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Level 52
Apr 18, 2017
Thank you :)
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Level 24
Dec 29, 2021
Got 8/8 with 0:34 left
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Level 76
Jun 3, 2017
And one that made me think. (Which is good.)
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Level 57
Oct 22, 2019
What about Australia? You have mainland Australia and Tasmania?
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Level 29
Nov 27, 2019
Tasmania only has 500,000 people
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Level 74
Nov 27, 2019
Australia is a continent, not an Island.

https://www.britannica.com/story/is-australia-an-island

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Level 83
Nov 28, 2019
I know 'island continent' is a popular designation of Australia, at least in Australia, but I think the terms are usually mutually exclusive. If something is a continental landmass, it is by definition not an island. Thus for consistency's sake, Australia is properly considered a continent. And yes, Tasmania's a long way off having a million people.
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Level 41
Mar 7, 2021
Australia is not a continent. Is an insular country.
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Level 38
Jun 4, 2021
Some people consider Australia the continent while others say Oceania or Australasia is the continent.
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Level 67
Dec 29, 2021
On planet earth a landmass can be one of two things, a continent, or an island, which in turn is allocated to a continent. If Australia is an island, then one of the other continents, Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North American or South American, must assume ownership of Australia. Which would you like it to be? Concerning the term Oceania, given we don't want another continent to own those pacific islands in question, which landmass is the continent Oceania, making the rest islands - was that Bora Bora, from the gentleman in the khaki suit? Ah we have a vote for Bougainville from the lady in the elegant petite robe noire!
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Level 68
May 9, 2022
How did you come to the conclusion that a landmass can be only a continent or an island, and how did you come to the conclusion that all islands must be "owned" by a continent?

I'm not outright disputing you (the concept of "continent" is by nature arbitrary), but I have not heard these ideas anywhere else.

Also, where you do place the islands of Oceania?? Is Tahiti part of South America, Australia, or Asia to you?

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Level ∞
Apr 15, 2017
The U.S. might have four, as the population of Oahu in 2015 was 998,000.
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Level 52
Apr 18, 2017
I 'll keep an eye on Oahu then :)
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Level 58
Dec 29, 2021
Oahu has population of 1,016,508 as of 2020
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Level 74
Jun 4, 2017
Or it might have two - is Puerto Rico the only external territory that factors into this list?
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Level 53
Jun 5, 2017
It, Manhattan, and Long Island are the three that are referenced in the quiz I assume
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Level 74
Dec 2, 2019
I think it's Hawai'i, Manhattan, and Long Island
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Level 63
Nov 3, 2020
hawaii isn't one island though
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Level 67
Nov 5, 2020
Hawaii is the name of the state and of the largest island but the most populated Hawaiian island is Oahu
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Level 50
Jul 1, 2022
Thought that Staten Island has more people than just about 500,000 people
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Level 75
Apr 15, 2017
It took a Jetpunk quiz to let me know the South Island has gone past a million people!
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Level 81
Jun 3, 2017
No shame in that!
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Level 74
Jun 3, 2017
Me too!
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Level 65
Jul 28, 2017
Wow... that's a lot of Kiwis...
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Level 46
May 14, 2020
Ironically, the fruit is from China.
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Level 73
Dec 29, 2021
How have none of the nerds on here mentioned that this is not irony?
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Level 65
Dec 29, 2021
Pretty Ironic, huh?
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Level 73
Dec 29, 2021
Ironically, my attempt to educate the comment section about the mislabelling of sarcasm has led to further questionable uses of sarcasm! What a world!
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Level 68
May 9, 2022
I ideologically refuse to use the word "irony" correctly, just to spite that dang robot.
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Level 60
Mar 17, 2023
Now that's ironic!
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Level 65
Apr 18, 2017
cool quizz ;) Thanks
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Level 52
Apr 18, 2017
Thank you!
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Level 43
Apr 19, 2017
Yep, good quiz. Got Italy with 2 seconds remaining.
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Level 25
Mar 28, 2020
I got it with one lol
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Level 58
Apr 19, 2017
Sorry to say but doesn't New Zealand have the Cook Islands and a main one called Stewart Island just south of the South Island?
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Level 64
May 12, 2017
Neither of them are very popoulus. I'm sure for NZ it's North Island and South Island = 2.
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Level 59
Apr 19, 2017
What are the three in the US? I checked Wikipedia, and the only ones it lists above one million are Long Island, Manhattan Island, and Puerto Rico, but I was under the impression that featured quizzes on Jetpunk never count territories such as Puerto Rico as a part of the country that owns them.
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Level 71
Apr 20, 2017
How about Hawaii?
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Level 44
Apr 20, 2017
Oahu maybe, but not The Big Island
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Level 66
Nov 27, 2019
Not a country ;)
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Level 69
Nov 27, 2019
@Sifhraven he means that hawaii(oahu) would count towards the US total islands....
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Level 61
Jun 3, 2017
Um, the quiz says it includes external territories.
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Level 46
May 14, 2020
Some quizzes include external territories, some don't you just have to look at the top in the description.
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Level 67
Apr 20, 2017
I guess there isn't a million people on Newfoundland and Vancouver island...
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Level 62
Jun 3, 2017
Vancouver Island: 759,366 (2011)

Newfoundland: 479,105 (2006)

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Level 61
Jun 4, 2017
I mean, the Island of Montreal has well over a million people (1,942,000), so just one of Vancouver Island or Newfoundland would do.
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Level 41
Apr 20, 2017
Enjoyed
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Level 67
May 21, 2017
Nice quiz.
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Level 65
Jun 3, 2017
Does it mean the entire country has a population over 1 million? Or each of the islands has a population over 1 million
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Level 40
Jun 3, 2017
Each of the islands
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Level 42
Jun 3, 2017
Where is Greece?
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Level 66
Jun 3, 2017
Just to the west of Turkey and due South of Macedonia - you can't miss it.
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Level 84
Jun 3, 2017
Greece has many populated islands, but none that are "populous" by the definition used here. Crete is home to only 623,000 people and it goes sharply down from there.
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Level 69
Jun 3, 2017
Darn Italy! Fun quiz
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Level 79
Jun 3, 2017
What about the UK, Ireland, Cuba, etc.?
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Level 74
Jun 3, 2017
Has to have multiple islands each with a population over 1 million.
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Level 59
Jun 13, 2017
UK is on the list. Ireland and Cuba have only one populous island.
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Level 58
Jun 11, 2017
Katalina, look at this link it shows oahu now having a larger population that one million: http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/hawaii-population/
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Level 52
Aug 2, 2017
From your link:"There are eight major islands in Hawaii. Oahu is the largest, with a population of 953,207."
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Level 66
May 24, 2019
still the EXACT same number.... 953.207 ... though it says 2019 data... I somehow doubt that...
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Level ∞
Jul 24, 2019
It's pretty sad really that Google can't take us directly to the Census data. It's not like accurate data is hard to find if you know where to look.
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Level 66
Nov 27, 2019
They, whoever "they" are should atleast be honest/clear about the year the data is from. For all we know it is from 2012, and they just kept updating the year (instead of the population count).

But well, there are sadder things to worry about.

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Level 25
Nov 20, 2017
I live in Canada and was sure you had forgotten that off the list. Now that I check, only Montreal has over 1 million. So, good on you for knowing something about my own country that I was unaware of.
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Level 67
Nov 27, 2019
Yeah, I thought I was going crazy...then I looked it up and discovered that Vancouver Island has only like 750,000 and Nova Scotia is not an island, which I always thought it was.
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Level 35
Oct 28, 2021
I thought Nova scotia was an island in Russia but now I realise the island is called Novaya Zemlya
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Level 74
Mar 4, 2018
I missed Japan ;(
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Level 62
Aug 21, 2019
what about Malaysia??
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Level 61
Nov 27, 2019
The western part of Malaysia (can't bother to look up what it's called) is connected by land to the continent of Asia.
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Level 54
Aug 17, 2020
Malaya, I think :-) It's what the other bit is called that's the question...
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Level 42
Dec 29, 2021
Only have one (Malaysian part of Borneo Island).
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Level 66
Nov 25, 2019
The wording is grammatically vague and could reference the one million population referring to the country rather than the islands.
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Level 67
Nov 27, 2019
No, it's grammatically correct. You're supposed to put the modifier right after what it's modifying, so the "with a population over 1 million" modifies "islands or parts of islands." To convey what you suggest, the instructions would have to read "name the countries with a population over 1 million that have multiple islands or parts of islands."
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Level 75
Oct 14, 2021
It may be grammatically correct but it can easily be misunderstood.

Name the countries that have multiple islands or parts of islands with (or - each of which have) a population over 1 million.

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Level 59
Dec 29, 2021
Is that a rule, though?
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Level 41
Nov 27, 2019
What about Malaysia?

I know that Malaysia has over 30 million in population and peninsula Malaysia has most of it. But I also know that East Malaysia has a population of at least 5.7 million.

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Level 67
Nov 27, 2019
You'd need a second island, as the quiz asks for countries with multiple islands with a population over one million. East Malaysia also shares Borneo with Brunei and Indonesia, so while it's definitely on an island, I don't know whether it would count within the meaning of this quiz because it has land borders with another country. It's a moot point anyway, unless there is a second Malaysian island with a population over one million.
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Level 61
Nov 27, 2019
(The western part of Malaysia is connected to Asia.)
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Level 50
Jan 11, 2020
Penang Island is not too far off (722,000), but still Malaysia fails to make the list for now.
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Level 74
Dec 29, 2021
I was confused by this. I "knew" that Penang had more than a million, but wasn't aware that the state of Penang includes the mainland area around Butterworth as well.
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Level 46
Nov 27, 2019
I did this thinking I was suppose to only name island countries and me being "smart" I named every single island country. I didn't know countries like USA, China and Italy count.
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Level 82
Nov 27, 2019
What about Tanzania and Zanzibar?
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Level 82
Nov 27, 2019
never mind, see that you need two island, each with over 1 million people.
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Level 85
Nov 28, 2019
I must say that I don't understand the difficulties some people have with the wording. Multiple populous islands, it's pretty clear that there must be at least two islands, each of them with a large population (and 1M is a logical choice).
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Level 69
Nov 29, 2019
I would imagine it's "non-English mothertongue people expecting that English complies with the grammar in their mental schemes", mostly. But also "people who can't read very well" are surely within the complainers.

Normally, whenever I'm part of any of these two, I keep my (metaphorical) mouth shut.

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Level 73
Dec 29, 2021
I would imagine that it is mostly "Earth-born humans who have silly non-precise, linear languages" who struggle to maintain exact grammatical phrasing comprehension.

But "computers who have gained the ability to reason" would surely avoid getting entangled in such discussion and keep its metaphysical mouth shut.

As a non-computer human I can algorithmically break down the grammatical parsing of the intended task accurately. Complainers should be reprogrammed. Conclude comment.

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Level 59
Dec 29, 2021
I would imagine that it's mostly "Americans whose parents were valedictorians" who interpret the caption with ease. :)
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Level 16
Dec 3, 2019
Great quiz. Some countries that are almost there: Spain has 2 islands above 900,000 (Tenerife and Mallorca) and 1 more at 860,000 (Gran Canaria). Malaysia has well over a million in East Malaysia, and more than 800,000 on Penang Island. Canada has well over a million on Île de Montréal and about 780,000 on Vancouver Island.
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Level 52
Dec 5, 2019
Thanks! Interesting info!
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Level 51
Feb 23, 2020
China? Got all but that surprised me when it counted
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Level 68
Jul 7, 2021
Surprised me too
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Level 42
Dec 29, 2021
Me too. I was curious and looked them up. They are, in order, Hainan, Zhongshan, Xiamen, Henan (Haizhu District) & Hong Kong Island, as of 2021.
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Level 37
Feb 25, 2020
What's the second UK island? Northern Ireland is connected to the country of Ireland.
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Level 46
May 14, 2020
Still has over a million people living within northern ireland.
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Level 42
Dec 29, 2021
Parts of islands are counted, according to the instruction.
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Level 51
Dec 29, 2021
Ireland is an island and Northern Ireland is a part of that island and the quiz says "Island or part of an Island
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Level 27
Apr 12, 2021
Just thinking about the Isle of man but that is only 84,000 population
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Level 51
Dec 29, 2021
I got all of them except for Indonesia lol.
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Level 56
Dec 29, 2021
I was expecting the answers with the same number of islands to be listed alphabetically, some of us use that common feature as a hint. Maybe rearrange?
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Level 47
Dec 29, 2021
8/8 first try although it took me some time to remember New Zealand home of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu hill!
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Level 28
Dec 31, 2021
..What happened to the "turipukakapikikimaungahoronuku" part? Isn't it spelled Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu instead?
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Level 28
Dec 31, 2021
Somehow I missed the most guessed. . . .
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Level 47
Jan 1, 2022
france (mayotte and corsica)
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Level 70
Jan 5, 2022
The quiz requires at least two islands have over a million inhabitants, and neither of those have even half of that.

The French island that gets the closest is actually Réunion at over 800k people, and if you get rid of the surprizingly many cows there you can definitely make it pass a million, but that would only make one island, which isn't enough.

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Level 21
Apr 13, 2022
Very nice quiz💯💯🙂🙂
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Level 48
Aug 7, 2022
Does Fyn have 1 million inhabitants?