Small islands
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Small islands are usually defined as those with an approximate area of 10,000 square kilometers (3,860 square miles) or less and approximately 500,000 or fewer residents.
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Small islands may include independent islands, archipelagic states and islands associated with or part of larger countries. This helps to generally differentiate them from the larger island nations and states that are rich in natural resource and much more connected.
However, the concept of insularity also depends upon the local perception, as in Japanese Archipelago, the five larger islands having an area of more than 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) each are considered as mainland, whereas the rest of the inhibited islands are termed as small islands.
