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Largest Islands
A list of the top 20 largest islands of the world, with area measured in square miles and kilometres.
Australia and Antarctica both have a claim to be in this island list however, for geological, political and cultural reasons they are described as continental land masses and so are not included in the list. However if they were included Antarctica would be the largest island with an area of 5,400,000 sq. miles (14,000,000 sq. km)and Australia would be the second largest island with an area of 2,941,517 sq. miles (7,618,493 sq. km).
| Island | Area | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| sq. miles | sq. km | ||
| Greenland | 822,700 | 2,130,800 | self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark |
| New Guinea | 309,000 | 800,000 | the state Papua New Guinea and part of Indonesia |
| Borneo | 280,100 | 725,500 | the state Brunei and parts of Indonesia and Malaysia |
| Madagascar | 226,658 | 578,041 | |
| Baffin Island | 195,928 | 507,451 | part of Canada |
| Sumatra | 164,000 | 425,000 | part of Indonesia |
| Honshu | 87,805 | 227,414 | part of Japan |
| Victoria Island | 83,896 | 217,291 | part of Canada |
| Great Britain | 83,698 | 216,777 | part of UK |
| Ellesmere Island | 75,767 | 196,236 | part of Canada |
| Celebes | 67,400 | 174,600 | part of Indonesia |
| South Island, New Zealand | 58,200 | 150,737 | |
| Java | 48,900 | 126,700 | part of Indonesia |
| North Island, New Zealand | 44,035 | 114,050 | |
| Newfoundland | 42,031 | 108,860 | part of Canada |
| Cuba | 40,543 | 105,007 | |
| Luzon | 40,422 | 104,688 | part of the Philippines |
| Iceland | 39,702 | 102,828 | |
| Mindanao | 36,539 | 94,630 | part of the Philippines |
| Ireland (Eire) | 32,589 | 84,406 | Republic of Ireland & Northern Ireland |