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This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents. For rank-order lists, see the other lists below. Animated map exhibiting the worlds oceanic waters. ... Animated, colour-coded map showing the various continents. ... This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents. ...

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List of islands by continent

This is a list of islands of Africa. ... This is a list of islands of Antarctica and sub-Antarctica. ... Australia has thousands of islands within its territory and several external territories. ... This is a list of islands in the world grouped by oceans and by continents. ... This is a list of the major islands and archipielagos of Europe: // British Isles (disputed in Ireland): Great Britain Ireland The Isle of Man The Orkney Islands The Shetland Islands The Hebrides The Isles of Scilly The Isle of Wight Anglesey (Welsh: Ynys Mon) Major Danish islands: Zealand Funen Lolland... This is a partial list of islands of North America. ... This is a list of islands of Central America. ... This is a list of islands of South America. ...

List of islands by ocean or sea

This is a list of islands in the Adriatic. ... This is a list of islands in the Aegean Sea. ... This is a list of islands of the Arctic Ocean. ... This is a list of islands in the Atlantic Ocean. ... This is a list of islands in the Baltic Sea. ... Islands of the Caribbean. ... Islands in the East China Sea include: Chongming Mount Putuo Ryukyu Islands Senkaku Islands (also Tiaoyutai Islands, Pinnacle Islands, Diaoyu Islands, Diaoyutai) Zhoushan Archipelago Zhoushan Island See also List of islands List of islands in the Arctic Ocean List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean List of islands in the... This is a list of islands in the Indian Ocean. ... This is a list of islands in the Irish Sea. ... This is a list of islands in the Mediterranean Adriatic Sea - see Adriatic islands Aegean Sea - see Greek islands Crete Rhodes Albanian islands Balearic Islands Ibiza Mallorca Menorca Formentera Cabrera Corsica Lavezzi Islands Cyprus Italian Islands Sardinia Sicily Ionian Islands Corfu Maltese Islands Malta Gozo Comino Parsley Island Categories: Lists... The Pacific Ocean has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands; the exact number is unknown. ... // Amwaj Islands Bahrain Hawar Islands Al Muharraq Sitrah Abbasak Abu Musa island Buneh island Dara island Farsi island Forur Bozorg island Forur Koochak island Forurgan island Germ island Greater and Lesser Tunbs Hendurabi island gghItalic textLink titlelink title{| class=wikitable |- ! MAYBE BYRON WILL LKE ME 1 ! header 2 ! header 3... Islands in the South China Sea includes the South China Sea Islands (Spratly Islands, Pratas Islands, Paracel Islands and Macclesfield Bank), islands on the China coast, on the Vietnam coast, on the Borneo coast, and the peripheral islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, etc. ... This is a list of islands of Antarctica and sub-Antarctica. ...

List of islands of Asia

This is a list of islands of Cambodia Kampong Som Group of Islands Koh Kong Island ... This is a list of islands of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Other Hong Kong topics Culture - Economy Education - History - Politics Hong Kong Portal The Hong Kong SAR consists of a mainland area and 262 islands. ... This is a list of islands under the Republic of China administration (all claimed by the Peoples Republic of China). ... This is a list of islands of India. ... Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands, according to satellite images. ... This is a list of Irans islands: Coastal islands Caspian Sea Ashooradeh archipelago Ashooradeh island Persian Gulf Abu Musa island Buneh island Dara island Farsi island Forur Bozorg island Forur Koochak island Forurgan island Greater and Lesser Tunbs Hendurabi island Hengam island Hormuz island Jonobi island Khark island Kish... The four main islands of Japan are: Hokkaidō HonshÅ« KyÅ«shÅ« Shikoku Okinawa is the fifth largest island except the disputed northern territories, and is the smallest island which has a prefectural capital. ... Kuwait has nine islands (ten including one former island). ... This is a list of islands of Malaysia. ... The following is a list of islands of Myanmar: Mergui Archipelago Ramree See also List of islands Geography of Myanmar Categories: Geography of Myanmar | Lists of islands ... Astola (aka Haft Talar) Bhit Shah Island Buddo Island Bundal Island Churma Island (aka Churna Island) Clifton Oyster Rocks Khiprianwala Island Malan Island Manora (aka Manoro) This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... This is a list of islands of the Philippines. ... This is a list of islands of Russia. ... Massive land reclamation work over the past centuries has removed much of Singapores natural islands and islets, although a few new ones are also created in the process. ... Some factual claims in this article or section need to be verified. ... . ... This is a list of islands of Thailand. ... This is a list of islands of Vietnam Phu Quoc Con Son (Con Dao) Halong Bay Islands ... The Liancourt Rocks are islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea). ... The Kuril Islands with the disputed islands highlighted The Kuril Island conflict is a dispute between Japan and Russia over sovereignty over the southernmost Kuril Islands. ... Kunashir Island (国後島:Kunashiri in Japanese, Кунашир (Kunashir) in Russian, Black Island in Ainu language), a southwestern island of the Kuril Islands, located in the Sakhalin Oblast of the Russian Federation. ... Iturup (Russian Итуруп; Ainu エト・オロ・プ; Japanese 択捉島, Etorofu) is the largest island of the Kuriles, located in the Sakhalin Oblast of Russia. ... Shikotan (色丹島) (Shikotan in Japanese, Шикотан in Russian), one of the bigger islands of the Kuril Islands, located in the Sakhalin Oblast of Russia. ... The Hobomai Rocks (Russian: Хабомай (Khabomai), Japanese: ??? (Habomai)) are a group of islets in the very south end of the Kuril Islands. ... // Aerial view of Uotsuri-jima / Diaoyu-dao Kuba Jima (久場島) or Huangwei Yu (黃尾嶼 Yellow Tail) is located at has an area of 1. ... The South China Sea Islands (or Nanhai Islands, simplified: 南海诸岛, traditional: 南海諸島, pinyin: NánhÇŽi ZhÅ«dÇŽo) is an archipelago of over 250 around 1-km² islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs, and sandbars in the South China Sea, most of which have no indigenous people. ... Woody Island is one of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. ... The Pratas Islands (or Dongsha Islands) are located in the middle of the South China Sea (see South China Sea Islands). ... MacClesfield Bank or Zhongsha Islands (Chinese 中沙群島 Pinyin: Zhongsha Qundao, literally Central Sand Islands) is an elongated atoll of underwater reefs and shoals in South China Sea and part of the disputed South China Sea Islands. ...

List of islands of Europe

This is a list of islands of Albania. ... A list of islands in Bulgaria. ... A vast majority of the Adriatic sea islands are located near the northeastern, Croatian coast. ... This is a list of islands of Cyprus. ... This is an incomplete list of islands of Denmark. ... This is a list of islands of Estonia. ... This is a list of islands of the Faroe Islands. ... This is a list of islands of Finland Åland Islands Hailuoto Raippaluoto See also: List of islands in the Baltic Sea, List of islands Categories: Lists of islands ... This is a list of islands of metropolitan France. ... This is a list of islands of Germany. ... This is a list of some of the 1400 islands of Greece, of which 227 are inhabited. ... . ... This is a list of islands of Iceland. ... This is a list of the principal islands of Ireland. ... This is a list of islands of the Isle of Man: Isle of Man (Population - c. ... This is a list of islands of Italy. ... This is a list of islands of Malta. ... Montenegros islands are relatively small and they are not as nearly as noumerous as in neighbouring Croatia. ... The Netherlands This is a list of islands of the Netherlands. ... This is a list of islands of Norway. ... This is a list of islands of Poland. ... This is a list of islands of Portugal. ... This is a list of islands of Romania. ... This is a list of the islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain, as well as a table of the largest Scottish islands. ... . ... This is a list of islands of Spain. ... This is a list of the largest islands of Sweden. ... This is a list of islands of Switzerland. ... This is a list of islands of Turkey. ... The British Isles consist of two major islands, many other inhabited islands, and countless uninhabited islands and rocks. ...

List of islands of North and Central America

This is a list of islands of Belize. ... This is an incomplete list of islands of Canada. ... This is a list of islands of Honduras. ... This is a list of islands of Mexico. ... This is a list of islands of Nicaragua. ... . ... This is a partial list of islands of the United States, including its insular areas. ... The Great Lakes islands consist of 35,000 islands created by uneven glacial activity in the Great Lakes basin. ...

List of islands of Oceania

The Pacific Ocean has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands; the exact number is unknown. ... Australia has thousands of islands within its territory and several external territories. ... New Zealand consists of a large number of islands. ... The Republic of Kiribati consists of 32 atolls, one raised coral island, and many other reefs. ...

List of ancient islands

  • The majority of the Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles
  • The ancient volcanic island of Cargados Carajos, which sank to a coral atoll
  • Emperor Seamounts (?) [Pacific, extension of Hawaiian Islands)
  • Ile Du Sud- African Banks (in the Amirantes)
  • Majority of the Great Chagos Bank
  • Intermontane Islands, Pacific
  • Insular Islands, Pacific
  • Nazareth
  • Owen Bank, Chagos Arch., submerged atoll
  • Owen Bank, Seychelles (not to be confused with Chagos atoll)
  • Saya De Malha, Formerly largest Mascarene Island
  • Majority of granitic Seychelles, which were remnants of India splitting from Africa.
  • Soudan, Mascarenes
  • Thorpe Bank, Seychelles
  • Topaze Bank, Seychelles
  • Unnamed bank just south of Madagascar was once a large tropical island
  • Island of the Batavians in the Netherlands. It used to be an island in the Rhine delta between the rivers Waal and Rhine. The island disappeared due to silting up of the Rhine, floods and the building of dikes, canals and dams for irrigation. Cities in the area that used to be the island are (most of) Rotterdam, The Hague, (half of) Leiden, Gouda, Nieuwegein, Tiel, (part of) Arnhem, (part of) Nijmegen.

Alphonse Atoll is an atoll in the Seychelles with 3 islets and less than 300 inhabitants. ... Map of the Cargados Carajos Islands Cargados Carajos Shoals (also known as the Saint Brandon Rocks) are a group of about 16 small islands and islets on an extended reef in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mauritius. ... The Emperor Seamounts are a chain of seamounts (submerged volcanic mountains) extending from the northwestern Hawaiian Islands (see Kure and Midway atolls) in a northwesterly direction until approximately 170º east longitude where they trend abruptly northward towards the tip of the Aleutian Islands and the Kamchatka Peninsula. ... The Amirante Islands (Les Amirantes), a group of coral islands and atolls, belong to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. ... The Intermontane Islands where a volcanic chain in the Pacific Ocean during the Jurassic period. ... The Insular Islands were a giant chain of active volcanic islands somewhere in the Pacific Ocean during the Cretaceous time that rode on top a microplate called the Insular Plate, beginning around 130 million years ago. ... Nazareth Bank is a large undersea bank in the Indian Ocean, part of the vast undersea Mascarene Plateau. ... Owen Bank is a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Chagos Archipelago. ... islands in the Indian Ocean, lying 500 km south of the Maldives. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Thorpe Bank is the name of a large bank south-east of Mahe island in the Seychelles. ... WAAL (The Whale) is a classic rock radio station broadcasting at 99. ... It has been suggested that River Rhine Pollution: November 1986 be merged into this article or section. ... Nickname: Motto: Sterker door strijd (Stronger through Struggle) Location of Rotterdam Coordinates: , Country Netherlands Province South Holland Government  - Mayor Ivo Opstelten  - Aldermen Jeannette Baljeu Hamit Karakus Orhan Kaya Lucas Bolsius Jantine Kriens Dominic Schrijer Roelf de Boer Leonard Geluk Area [1]  - City 319 km²  (123. ... Coordinates: , Country Netherlands Province South Holland Area (2006)  - Municipality 98. ... Leyden redirects here. ... Goudas 15th Century Town Hall Flag of Gouda Goudas Cheese Market Gouda (population 71,797 in 2004) is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. ... Nieuwegein is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands. ... Tiel is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands. ... Arnhem ( ) (South Guelderish: Èrnem) is a city and municipality in the east of the Netherlands, and capital of province Gelderland. ... Country Netherlands Province Gelderland Area (2006)  - Municipality 57. ...

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Economy · Geography · Maps · History · Politics · Country subdivisions · Culture · Transport · Tourism · Religion This article features a list of islands sorted by their name. ... This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population. ... This is a list of islands in the world ordered by area. ... This is a list of islands in Europe ordered by area. ... This is a list of islands in Europe ordered by population. ... This is a list of islands in the world ordered by their highest point. ... This is a list of islands in freshwater lakes, sometimes known as inland islands. ... With the present Global Warming trend, islands and islets that are hardly above the sea will begin to become submerged and this List of islands & islets now submerged is designed to include those such islands/islets in the world which are now submerged or likely to become submerged. ... The vast majority of islands in the world are either a country in their own right or part of a larger country. ... Main article: Artificial island Currently, man-made islands are an expensive but in some cases lucrative option for many cities having lack-of-land problems (such as Tokyos Odaiba and Fukuokas island city project. ... This is a list of islands named after people. ... // Canadian Arctic Archipelago Belcher Islands Queen Elizabeth Islands Franz Josef Land Lofoten New Siberian Islands Novaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya Svalbard Azores Bermuda Islands Bight of Bonny Islands British Isles Channel Islands Chausey Hebrides Isles of Scilly Orkney Shetland Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Macaronesia Canary Islands Cape Verde Islands... Phantom islands are islands that are believed to exist and appear on maps for a period of time (sometimes centuries), and then are removed after they are proven not to exist (or the general population stops believing that they exist). ... This is are a series of lists by country. ... This list of countries, arranged alphabetically, gives an overview of countries of the world. ... These are lists of country-related topics, clicking an entry below does not take you to an article on that country. ... This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. ... This is a list of articles on the history of contemporary countries, states and dependencies. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... This is a list of current subnational entities, some of which may be states in the legal sense of the word, by country: See also: ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. ... Information on culture by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Information on tourism by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ...

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Country calling codes · FIPS country codes · Internet TLDs · IOC country codes · ISO country codes · Ship prefixes This is a list of country calling codes defined by ITU-T recommendation E.164. ... Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) two-letter country codes (FIPS 10-4) are used by the US Government for data processing, and in the CIA World Factbook. ... The following is a list of currently existing Internet Top-level domains (TLDs). ... The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allocates three-letter country codes to all National Olympic Committees and other groups competing in the Olympic Games. ... ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. ... A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship. ...

Names and symbols

Adjectives · Country name etymologies · Country native names · Coats of arms · Flags · National anthems · National emblems The following is a partial list of Queer forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of the places. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This List of countries by native names is an alphabetical list of countries of the world with the names in the official (national) native languages, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... This gallery of sovereign state coats of arms shows the coat of arms of sovereign states in the list of sovereign states. ... This gallery of sovereign-state flags shows the flags of sovereign states in the list of sovereign states. ... This is a list of national anthems. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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Election results · Incumbents · Intelligence agencies · National leaders · National legislatures · Political parties (party systems) · Sovereign states · State mottos · System of government · Member states of the United Nations · Voting systems These are lists of incumbents, i. ... The following is a partial list of current intelligence agencies. ... This is a list of state leaders, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; it should be noted that often a leader is both in presidential systems or dictatorships. ... This is a list of legislatures by country, whether parliamentary or congressional, that act as a plenary general assembly of representatives with the power to legislate. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      This is a list of political parties around the world in the form of a table including links to the lists of political parties in the countries and entities listed in the list of countries, showing which party system... This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... Image:Antigua and barbuda coa. ... This is a list of countries categorized by system of government. ... A map of UN member states and their dependent territories as recognized by the UN. Regions excluded: Antarctica (regulated by the Antarctic Treaty System), Vatican City (the Holy See is a UN observer), the Palestinian territories (Palestine, represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization, is a UN observer), and Western Sahara... These tables deal with voting to select candidates for office, not for the passing of legislation. ...

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