Islands of the world
Identify 15 islands on a world map. Learn their shapes and locations, then practice with a quiz or printable map.
About this selection15 places included
Fifteen selected individual islands. Australia is treated as a continent and is excluded.
How this set is defined
This set contains the places listed below. It is a practice selection, not a complete list or a size ranking.
Not included
- Unlisted features
- Area, length or height rankings
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Generalized Natural Earth geography; public domain. Coordinate projection is an equirectangular study view with standard-parallel scaling. Boundaries are not a political-status claim. Physical region, mountain, marine and archipelago polygons are approximate label-area extents. Rivers use real mapped drainage lines; lakes use mapped shorelines.
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Trace the coastline before looking at political borders. An island can contain more than one country.
Great Britain is an island; the United Kingdom also includes Northern Ireland. Australia is excluded here because this site treats it as a continent.
Places and answers
Choose a place from this set. Typed answers accept its listed English name and alternatives; historical names and unlisted abbreviations are not accepted automatically.
| Place | Accepted names | Place notes |
|---|---|---|
| Baffin Island | Baffin Island | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Borneo | Borneo | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Ellesmere Island | Ellesmere Island | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Great Britain | Great Britain | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Greenland | Greenland | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Honshu | Honshu | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Iceland | Iceland | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Java | Java | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Luzon | Luzon | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Madagascar | Madagascar | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| New Guinea | New Guinea | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| North Island | North Island | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| South Island | South Island | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Sulawesi | Sulawesi | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
| Sumatra | Sumatra | A physical island. Its coastline may differ from the borders of the countries on it. |
Sources and map notes
equirectangular; regional standard parallel; US inset transforms when stated. Generalized Natural Earth geography; public domain. Coordinate projection is an equirectangular study view with standard-parallel scaling. Boundaries are not a political-status claim. Physical region, mountain, marine and archipelago polygons are approximate label-area extents. Rivers use real mapped drainage lines; lakes use mapped shorelines.
Last scope review: 2026-10-21
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