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Countries made up entirely of islands

No part of these 58 countries sits on a continental mainland. Some of them still have land borders. The United Kingdom shares one with Ireland and Indonesia has three, because sharing an island with a neighbour does not make you continental.

1🇮🇩Indonesia286m 2🇯🇵Japan123m 3🇵🇭Philippines117m 4🇬🇧United Kingdom69.5m 5🇲🇬Madagascar32.7m 6🇱🇰Sri Lanka21.8m 7🇭🇹Haiti11.9m 8🇩🇴Dominican Republic11.5m 9🇨🇺Cuba10.9m 10🇵🇬Papua New Guinea10.8m 11🇸🇬Singapore6.11m 12🇮🇪Ireland5.48m 13🇳🇿New Zealand5.32m 14🇵🇷Puerto Rico3.18m 15🇯🇲Jamaica2.84m 16🇧🇭Bahrain1.60m 17🇹🇱East Timor1.42m 18🇨🇾Cyprus1.37m 19🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago1.37m 20🇲🇺Mauritius1.24m 21🇫🇯Fiji933k 22🇰🇲Comoros883k 23🇸🇧Solomon Islands839k 24🇲🇹Malta580k 25🇲🇻Maldives530k 26🇨🇻Cape Verde527k 27🇧🇳Brunei466k 28🇧🇸The Bahamas403k 29🇮🇸Iceland392k 30🇻🇺Vanuatu335k 31🇳🇨New Caledonia295k 32🇧🇧Barbados283k 33🇵🇫French Polynesia282k 34🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe240k 35🇼🇸Samoa219k 36🇱🇨Saint Lucia180k 37🇬🇺Guam169k 38🇰🇮Kiribati136k 39🇸🇨Seychelles123k 40🇬🇩Grenada117k 41🇫🇲Federated States of Micronesia114k 42🇦🇼Aruba109k 43🇹🇴Tonga104k 44🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines99.9k 45🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda94.2k 46🇮🇲Isle of Man84.1k 47🇰🇾Cayman Islands75.8k 48🇩🇲Dominica65.9k 49🇧🇲Bermuda64.6k 50🇬🇱Greenland56.8k 51🇫🇴Faroe Islands54.9k 52🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis46.9k 53🇦🇸American Samoa46.0k 54🇲🇵Northern Mariana Islands43.5k 55🇲🇭Marshall Islands36.3k 56🇵🇼Palau17.7k 57🇳🇷Nauru12.0k 58🇹🇻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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