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Largest islands of the world

Note: Australia is by most considered 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. Victoria Island
  9. Great Britain
  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)