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List of islands by population

List of islands by population

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This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population. Of those, only Java (Indonesia) and Honshu (Japan) have populations over 1% of the global population.

Islands ordered by population

Due to the uncertainty of what exactly constitutes a geographic island, as opposed to an administrative region, please see comments about what is included in the figures: the statistics for some "islands" include other nearby islands.

World's most populated islands (10 million+ inhabitants)

Population over 10 million

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Population 1,000,000 to 10,000,000

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Population 500,000 to 1,000,000

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Population 100,000 to 500,000

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Peninsulas and other areas not regarded as islands

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
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See also

Notes

  1. Population calculated by adding the population of Richmond, British Columbia (209,937)[95] and Queensborough, New Westminster (10,311),[96] then subtracting the population of Sea Island (British Columbia) (819).[97]

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