Countries with Multiple Populous Islands

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Australia is a continent, not an Island.

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

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.

Australia is not a continent. Is an insular country.

Some people consider Australia the continent while others say Oceania or Australasia is the continent.

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!

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?

Oahu has population of 1,016,508 as of 2020

It, Manhattan, and Long Island are the three that are referenced in the quiz I assume

I think it's Hawai'i, Manhattan, and Long Island

Thought that Staten Island has more people than just about 500,000 people

How have none of the nerds on here mentioned that this is not irony?

Pretty Ironic, huh?

Ironically, my attempt to educate the comment section about the mislabelling of sarcasm has led to further questionable uses of sarcasm! What a world!

I ideologically refuse to use the word "irony" correctly, just to spite that dang robot.

Oahu maybe, but not The Big Island

Not a country ;)

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.

still the EXACT same number.... 953.207 ... though it says 2019 data... I somehow doubt that...

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.

I thought Nova scotia was an island in Russia but now I realise the island is called Novaya Zemlya

Malaya, I think :-) It's what the other bit is called that's the question...

Is that a rule, though?

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.

I would imagine that it's mostly "Americans whose parents were valedictorians" who interpret the caption with ease. :)