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Countries that are archipelagos

39 countries are a group of many islands rather than one. Greece is on this list and is not on the entirely-islands one, because part of it is on the European mainland.

1🇮🇩Indonesia286m 2🇯🇵Japan123m 3🇵🇭Philippines117m 4🇬🇧United Kingdom69.5m 5🇨🇺Cuba10.9m 6🇵🇬Papua New Guinea10.8m 7🇬🇷Greece10.4m 8🇩🇰Denmark6.01m 9🇳🇿New Zealand5.32m 10🇧🇭Bahrain1.60m 11🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago1.37m 12🇲🇺Mauritius1.24m 13🇫🇯Fiji933k 14🇰🇲Comoros883k 15🇸🇧Solomon Islands839k 16🇲🇹Malta580k 17🇲🇻Maldives530k 18🇨🇻Cape Verde527k 19🇧🇸The Bahamas403k 20🇻🇺Vanuatu335k 21🇳🇨New Caledonia295k 22🇵🇫French Polynesia282k 23🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe240k 24🇼🇸Samoa219k 25🇰🇮Kiribati136k 26🇸🇨Seychelles123k 27🇬🇩Grenada117k 28🇫🇲Federated States of Micronesia114k 29🇹🇴Tonga104k 30🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines99.9k 31🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda94.2k 32🇰🇾Cayman Islands75.8k 33🇧🇲Bermuda64.6k 34🇫🇴Faroe Islands54.9k 35🇦🇸American Samoa46.0k 36🇲🇵Northern Mariana Islands43.5k 37🇲🇭Marshall Islands36.3k 38🇵🇼Palau17.7k 39🇹🇻Tuvalu9.49k

Ordered by population. This list is generated from the same fact store the Guess the Country clue engine draws on, so the game and the Atlas can never disagree.

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Country data from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0) and the UNDP Human Development Report (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
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