List of archipelagos by number of islands information
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List of archipelagos by number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays
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List of archipelagos by number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays:
Name of the archipelago
Number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays
Location (total number of islands)
Archipelago Sea (Åland Archipelago)
50,000 (Approx.)
Finland
Malay Archipelago
38,000 (approx.)[1]
Indonesia
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
36,563
Canada
Stockholm Archipelago
34,316
Sweden
Thirty Thousand Islands
30,000 (approx.)
Canada
Malay Archipelago
25,000 (approx.)
Southeast Asia
Lake of the Woods Islands
14,632[2]
Canada and United States
Småland archipelago
12,740
Swedish East Coast Archipelago (21,628)
Öregrund archipelago
9,722
Sweden
Östergötland archipelago
8,888
Sweden
Philippine Archipelago
7,641[3]
Philippines
Kvarken Archipelago
6,500
Finland
British Isles
6,289
British Isles
Södermanland archipelago
5,371
Södermanland archipelago, Sweden
Bahama Archipelago (Lucayan Archipelago)
3,200
The Bahamas
Japanese archipelago
6,852[4]
Japan
Seto Inland Sea
3,000
Japan
Great Barrier Reef
2,900 (reefs), 900 (islands)
Queensland, Australia
Chile
43,471[5]
Chile
Ha Long Bay
1,960 – 2,000
Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam
Thousand Islands
1,864
Saint Lawrence River, Canada–United States border
Zhoushan Archipelago
1,390 (islands)
China (5,000)
Dalmatia
1,200
Croatia
Maldive Islands
1,192 (coral islands)
Maldives
Alexander Archipelago
1,100
United States
West Estonian archipelago
900[6]
Estonia
Mergui Archipelago
800
Myanmar
Falkland Islands
776[7]
Falkland Islands, United Kingdom
New Zealand Archipelago
600
New Zealand
Recherche Archipelago
105[8]
Australia
^"Nautical chart: International no. 1205, SE61, Baltic Sea, North, Sea of Åland" (PDF).
^"Lake of the Woods". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
^Mayuga, Jonathan (10 February 2016). "Namria 'discovers' 400 previously 'unknown' PHL islands using IfSAR". BusinessMirror. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
^"Facts and Figures of Japan 2007 01: Land" (PDF). Foreign Press Center Japan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-07-31. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
^"Bienes Nacionales estima que existen 43.471 islas en Chile: Más de 11 mil aún no tienen nombre". 16 October 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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