List of island countries
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This is a list of island nations, political entities that are located on islands or island-continents.
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By political status
Independent
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia — often referred to as an island continent, although Greenland is usually considered the largest island
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Brunei
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Grenada
- Haiti
- Iceland
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Maldives
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- S㯠Tom頡nd Pr�ipe
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- United Kingdom
- Vanuatu
Independence under dispute
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus dispute between Cyprus and Turkey
Autonomous or semi-autonomous
- Ŭand
- Alderney
- Cook Islands?
- Faroe Islands
- Greenland
- Guernsey
- Jersey
- Isle of Man
- Niue?
- Northern Mariana Islands?
- Puerto Rico?
- Sark
By geographic configuration
Centered on one major island
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Madagascar
- Malta
- Saint Lucia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
Spread over an archipelago
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Comoros
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- S㯠Tom頡nd Pr�ipe
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Trinidad and Tobago
Island shared between two or more states
- Borneo - Brunei and Malaysia and Indonesia (only island in the world shared by three countries)
- Cyprus - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Republic of Cyprus, both states separated by a United Nations buffer zone. The United Kindom's sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia are also on the island.
- Hispaniola - Dominican Republic and Haiti
- Ireland - Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- M䲫et - Ŭand has some 10-metre border with Sweden on that island.
- New Guinea - Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia
- Sint Maarten/Saint-Martin - Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles and Guadeloupe (an overseas department of France) This example is included here because these two dependent territories belongs to two different countries.
- Timor - Timor Leste and West Timor, Indonesia
Continental shelf
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Madagascar
- Malta
- Philippines
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- S㯠Tom頡nd Pr�ipe
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Trinidad and Tobago
Oceanic ridges or atolls
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Iceland
- Kiribati
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Palau
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
Entire continent and outlying islands
Former nations
Historical
- Duchy of the Archipelago
- Kingdom of Hawai?i
- Kingdom of Man
- Majapahit Empire
- Republic of Hawai?i
- Republic of Taiwan
- Sese Islands
- Dominion of Newfoundland - note 3
- Delos
- Minoans
- Venice
- Andros
- Milos
- Pholegandros
- Khios
- Samos
- Lesbos
- Rhodes
- Zakynthos
- Merina
- Ryukyu Kingdom
- West Indies Federation, split up into Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago, Trinidad, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Former colonies, possessions, protectorates and territories
- Danish West Indies, now the United States Virgin Islands
- Territory of Hawai?i, a US territory from 1898 to 1959, now part of the United States.
- Hong Kong (1841-1860), now a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. - note 4
- Labuan, briefly part of British North Borneo, the Strait settlements and Sabah, now a federal territory of Malaysia
- New Caledonia, now an overseas department of France
- Newfoundland (1583-1809), now Province of Newfoundland and Labrador of Canada - note 3
- New Hebrides, now Vanuatu
- Tasmania, now a part of Australia
- Vancouver Island, now a part of British Columbia, Canada
Micronations
Notes
? The Cook Islands and Niue are in free association with New Zealand. See Niue Constitution Act 1974 (NZ).
? In association with the United States.
3 The Colony of Newfoundland covers the island of Newfoundland before 1808. In 1808, part of the peninsula of Labrador was transferred to Newfoundland from Lower Canada. In other words, before 1808, Newfoundland was an island colony. From 1808 onwards, the Colony of Newfoundland, and later the Dominion of Newfoundland, had been an island plus an area on the continent of North America.
4 The Crown Colony of Hong Kong covers only Hong Kong Island from 1841 to 1860. Kowloon south of Boundary Street on the continent was added in 1860, and extended to include the New Territories in 1898.