This is a list of archipelagos, organised by oceans, then seas, then finally arranged alphabetically, with geographically isolated islands included as well.
Arctic Ocean
Archipelagos of the Arctic Ocean:
Russian Arctic islands
Svalbard
Atlantic Ocean
Archipelagos of the Atlantic Ocean:
Along the coast of Europe
Along the coast of Africa
Along the coast of the Americas
Macaronesia
Archipelagos of Macaronesia:
Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland
Archipelagos of the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland:
Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico
Archipelagos of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico
<big>Caspian Sea</big>
Archipelagos of the Caspian Sea:
Mediterranean Sea
Archipelagos of the Mediterranean Sea
North Sea
Archipelagos of the North Sea:
Bering Strait
Archipelagos of the Bering Strait:
Indian Ocean
Archipelagos of the Indian Ocean:
Along the coast of Africa
Along the coast of Asia
Along the coast of Australia
Outlying archipelagos
Red Sea
Archipelagos in the Red Sea:
Pacific Ocean
Archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean:
Along the coast of the Americas
Along the coast of Asia
Oceania
Australia
Melanesia
Micronesia*
*Subdivision of Oceania not country
Polynesia
Southern Ocean
Islands of the Southern Ocean:
Antarctica
Bouvet Island<br>Heard Island and McDonald Islands<br>Kerguelen Islands<br>South Georgia<br>South Sandwich Islands
Lakes and rivers
By population
- Malay Archipelago 430,000,000 inhabitants
- Indonesian Archipelago 280,000,000
- Maluku Islands 3,131,860
- Riau Islands 2,183,290
- Philippine Islands 112,729,484
- Sulu Archipelago 1,996,970
- Japanese archipelago (including Sakhalin) 124,000,000
- Ryukyu Islands 1,550,161
- Kuril Islands 21,500
- British Isles 71,900,000
- Antilles 43,563,500
- Greater Antilles 38,400,500
- Lesser Antilles 3,950,000
- Leeward Antilles 770,000
- Lucayan Archipelago 443,000
- Virgin Islands 150,000
- Danish Isles 3,000,000
- Canary Islands 2,268,035
- Mascarene Islands 2,195,087
- Zanzibar Archipelago 2,000,000
- Hawaiian Islands 1,415,870
- Aegean Islands 1,400,000
- Cyclades 119,549
- Balearic Islands 1,231,768
- Comoro Islands 1,153,195
- Bight of Bonny islands 660,000
- Bioko 335,000
- São Tomé and PrÃÂncipe 220,000
- Annobón 5,000
- Maldives 601,269
- Maltese Islands 519,562
- Cape Verde 491,233
- Andaman Islands 343,125
- Madeira Islands 250,769
- Samoan Islands 249,839
- Azores 236,440
- Mariana Islands 228,600
- Society Islands 207,333
- Ionian Islands 207,855
- Channel Islands 171,916
- Caroline Islands 125,000
- Gilbert Islands 83,382
- Frisian Islands 81,341
- Lakshadweep 64,473
- Bermuda Islands 63,913
- Faroe Islands 56,210
- Hebrides 45,000
- Outer Hebrides 26,000
- Inner Hebrides 19,000
- Nicobar Islands 36,842
- Tuscan Archipelago 34,389
- Bissagos Islands 30,000
- ÃÂ
land 29,884
- Caicos Islands 26,519
- Galapagos Islands 25,124
- Lofoten 24,500
- Shetland 23,210
- Orkney 22,100
- Grenadines 20,880
- San Juan Islands 17,582
- Southern Cook Islands 16,418
- Kerkennah Islands 15,501
- Aeolian Islands 15,419
- Tuamotus 15,346
- Arctic Archipelago 14,000
- Bocas del Toro Archipelago 13,000
- Magdalen Islands 12,781
- Islands of the Clyde 12,534
- Marquesas Islands 9,346
- Line Islands 8,813
- Aleutian Islands 8,162
- Austral Islands 6,965
- Pelagie Islands 6,556
- Haida Gwaii 4,761
- Torres Strait Islands 4,514
- Vestmannaeyjar 4,500
- Aegadian Islands 4,292
- Pontine Islands 4,066
- Falkland Islands 4,000
- Chagos Archipelago 3,000âÂÂ5,000
- Fernando de Noronha 3,061
- Dahlak Archipelago 3,000
- Svalbard 2,667
- Bonin Islands 2,440
- Isles of Scilly 2,224
- Gambier Islands 1,533
- Aran Islands 1,225
- Northern Cook Islands 1,041
- Paracel Islands 1,000+
- Juan Fernandez Islands 900
- Chatham Islands 663
- Commander Islands 613
- Tremiti Islands 489
- Diomede Islands 135
- Phoenix Islands 24
See also
References