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Contents. List of islands of the Philippines. As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands [1] [2] clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited, [3] and more than 5,000 are yet to be officially named. [2]
The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [8] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [2] [3] [9] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about 105,000 square kilometers (40,541 ...
List: Philippines: 7,641 2,000 Thousands of islands are unnamed, and tiny. List: Poland: 203 Usedom (shared with Germany) and Wolin are barrier islands; the rest are either lagoon, lake or river islands. List: Portugal: 23 23 All of their 23 islands are inhabited. List: Russia: 1,338 List: Samoa: 12 4 List: Senegal: 35 List: Serbia: 35 1–3
Dymaxion world map with continental landmasses (I,II,III,IV) and largest islands (1–30) roughly to scale. This list includes all islands in the world larger than 2,500 km 2 (970 sq mi) and most of the islands over 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi), sorted in descending order by area.
Category:Islands of the Philippines. The main article for this category is Island groups of the Philippines. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Islands of the Philippines. Generally, these islands are in the Pacific Ocean. Exceptions include those in River islands of the Philippines.
The Philippines, along with Vietnam, the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of China (ROC), Malaysia and Brunei, is a claimant country in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea . As of 2020, the Philippines are occupying and/or controlling eleven features (eight islands, three reefs), as detailed in the following table:
Philippines: La Palma Canary Islands Spain Palmeira: Alentejo Islands Portugal: Palmeira Pequena: Alentejo Islands Portugal: Palmerston: Cook Islands Cook Islands: Palm Island Aruba Kingdom of the Netherlands: Palmižana: Adriatic Sea Croatia: Palu'e: Lesser Sunda Islands Indonesia: Panarea: Aeolian Islands Italy Panay: Visayas Philippines ...
Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska United States Samar: Visayas Philippines: Samhah: Socotra Yemen: Samos Island: Beira Litoral Islands Portugal: Samos: Dodecanese Greece: Samothrace Greece: Samphrey Shetland Islands Scotland: Sampson: Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts United States Samsø: Kattegat Denmark: Samson: Isles of ...