List of island countries
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This is a list of island countries, countries that are located on islands or archipelagoes.
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[edit] Current
[edit] By political status
[edit] Independent
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Australia note 6
- 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) note 5
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos
- Tuvalu
- United Kingdom
- Vanuatu
[edit] Independence under dispute
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de jure part of Cyprus, recognized by only Turkey)
[edit] Autonomous, colonies and semi-autonomous
- Åland
- Alderney
- American Samoa²
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Cook Islands¹
- Faroe Islands
- Falkland Islands
- Greenland
- Guam²
- Guernsey
- Jersey
- Isle of Man
- Montserrat
- New Caledonia
- Niue¹
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands²
- Pitcairn Islands
- Puerto Rico²
- Sark
- Saint Helena
- Tokelau¹
- U.S. Virgin Islands²
[edit] By geographic configuration
[edit] Centered on one major island
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Christmas Island
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Madagascar
- Malta
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- Norfolk Island
- Saint Lucia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
[edit] Spread over group of islands (including parts of archipelagoes and island arcs)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Cayman Islands
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Comoros
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Grenada
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- New Zealand
- Philippines
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Seychelles
- Solomon Islands
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tokelau
[edit] Island shared between two or more states
[edit] 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
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- United Kingdom
- Trinidad and Tobago
[edit] 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
[edit] Former nations
[edit] Historical
- Andros
- Delos
- Dominion of Newfoundland - note 3
- Duchy of the Archipelago
- Khios
- Kingdom of Cyprus
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Kingdom of Hawai‘i
- Kingdom of Ireland
- Kingdom of Man
- Irish Free State
- Lesbos
- Majapahit Empire
- Merina
- Milos
- Minoans
- Pholegandros
- Rhodes
- Republic of Formosa
- Republic of Hawai‘i
- Ryūkyū Kingdom
- Samos
- Sese Islands
- Venice
- West Indies Federation, split up into Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, 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.
- Zakynthos
[edit] Former colonies, possessions, protectorates and territories
- Cape Breton Island, now part of Nova Scotia, Canada
- 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
- Macau (1557-1999), now a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
- Newfoundland (1583-1809), now Province of Newfoundland and Labrador of Canada - note 3
- New Hebrides, now Vanuatu
- Prince Edward Island, now a province of Canada
- Réunion, now an overseas department of France
- Tasmania, now a part of Australia
- Vancouver Island, now a part of British Columbia, Canada
- Zanzibar and Pemba, now parts of Tanzania
[edit] Micronations
[edit] Notes
Although not an island nation, over 50% of Denmark's population (excluding Greenland and the Faroe Islands) live on islands.
¹ The Cook Islands and Niue are in free association with New Zealand. See Niue Constitution Act 1974 (NZ). Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand.
² An associated state of or 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.
5 See also Chinese Civil War, political status of Taiwan and legal status of Taiwan.
6 Australia is considered by geographers to be a continent and thus not an island, however in popular usage it is often referred to as an 'island continent'.
