Published on 26 Mar 2024 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance
In this article, we list and discuss the 16 Countries with the Most Number of Islands. If you would like to skip our detailed discussion of the topic, you can go directly to the top 5 Countries with the Most Number of Islands.
More than 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with water, and between these waters lie hundreds of thousands of islands. By definition, an island is a land mass surrounded by a body of water.
Although continents fall under this definition as well, they are still not considered islands due to their enormity. To put into perspective, Australia, the smallest continent with a land area of almost 7.7 million square kilometers, is more than three times the size of the largest island in the world — Greenland — which has a landmass of over 2.1 million square kilometers.