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List of archipelagos by number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays:

Location (total number of islands) Name of the archipelago Number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays
Indonesia Malay Archipelago 38,000 (approx.)[1]
Canada Canadian Arctic Archipelago 36,563
Sweden Stockholm archipelago 34,316
Canada Thirty Thousand Islands 30,000 (approx.)
Southeast Asia Malay Archipelago 25,000 (approx.)
Canada and United States Lake of the Woods Islands 14,632[2]
Swedish East Coast Archipelago (21,628[3]) Småland archipelago 12,740
Sweden Öregrund archipelago 9,722
Sweden Östergötland archipelago 8,888
Philippines Philippine Archipelago 7,641[4]
Finland Kvarken Archipelago 6,500
British Isles British Isles 6,289
Södermanland archipelago, Sweden Södermanland archipelago 5,371
Korea Korean Peninsula 3,579
The Bahamas Bahama Archipelago (Lucayan Archipelago) 3,200
Japan Japanese archipelago 6,852[5]
Japan Seto Inland Sea 3,000
Queensland, Australia Great Barrier Reef 2,900 (reefs), 900 (islands)
Chile Chile 43,471[6]
Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam Ha Long Bay 1,960 – 2,000
Saint Lawrence River, Canada–United States border Thousand Islands 1,864
China (5,000) Zhoushan Archipelago 1,390 (islands)
Thailand Thailand 1,430
India Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep Islands, Coastal India 1208
Greece Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea 1,200 – 6,000
Croatia Dalmatia 1,200
Maldives Maldive Islands 1,192 (coral islands)
United States Alexander Archipelago 1,100
Estonia West Estonian archipelago 900[7]
Italy Italy 800
Myanmar Mergui Archipelago 800
Falkland Islands, United Kingdom Falkland Islands 776[8]
New Zealand New Zealand Archipelago 600
Turkey Aegean Sea, Marmara Sea, Black Sea 500 (approx.)
Australia Western Australia,Southern Ocean, Recherche Archipelago 105[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nautical chart: International no. 1205, SE61, Baltic Sea, North, Sea of Åland" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Lake of the Woods". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "Swedish islands" (PDF). SCB, The Swedish Statistics Agency. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
  4. ^ Mayuga, Jonathan (10 February 2016). "Namria 'discovers' 400 previously 'unknown' PHL islands using IfSAR". BusinessMirror. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  5. ^ "Facts and Figures of Japan 2007 01: Land" (PDF). Foreign Press Center Japan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-07-31. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
  6. ^ "Bienes Nacionales estima que existen 43.471 islas en Chile: Más de 11 mil aún no tienen nombre". 16 October 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. ^ Lääne-Eesti saarestik - Eesti Entsüklopeedia
  8. ^ "The Islands: Location". Falkland Islands Government web site. 2007. Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2007.
  9. ^ "Recherche Archipelago: Bay of Isles". Tourist information website. 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
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