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Largest islands of the world

Note: Australia is generally considered to be a continental landmass, rather than an island. If however one does count Australia among the islands it, not Greenland, would be the largest in the world (unless one also considered Antarctica an island).

  1. Greenland
  2. New Guinea
  3. Borneo
  4. Madagascar
  5. Baffin Island
  6. Sumatra
  7. Honshu
  8. Great Britain
  9. Victoria Island
  10. Ellesmere Island
  11. Celebes
  12. South Island (New Zealand)
  13. Java
  14. North Island (New Zealand)
  15. Newfoundland
  16. Cuba
  17. Luzon
  18. Iceland
  19. Mindanao
  20. Ireland
  21. Hokkaido
  22. Sakhalin
  23. Hispaniola
  24. Banks Island
  25. Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Islands of the world by region

Africa

Antarctica (and sub-Antarctica islands)

Arctic

Asia

Atlantic

Australia

Caribbean

Europe

Indian Ocean

North America


Pacific

  • Western Samoa (see Samoa)

South America

Phantom Islands - (mythical islands believed at one time, to be real)

--- Artificial Islands -(islands created by humans, where once was sea)

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