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List of islands by size

This is a list of islands in the world ordered by size:

  1. Greenland (840'000 sq mi) - self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark
  2. New Guinea (309'000 sq mi) - the state Papua New Guinea and part of Indonesia
  3. Borneo (287'300 sq mi) - the state Brunei and parts of Indonesia and Malaysia
  4. Madagascar (227'000 sq mi)
  5. Baffin Island (195'928 sq mi) - part of Canada
  6. Sumatra (182'860 sq mi) - part of Indonesia
  7. Honshu (89'176 sq mi) - part of Japan
  8. Great Britain (88'795 sq mi) - part of UK
  9. Victoria Island (83'897 sq mi) - part of Canada
  10. Ellesmere Island (75'767 sq mi) - part of Canada
  11. Celebes (73'057 sq mi) - part of Indonesia
  12. South Island (58'384 sq mi) - part of New Zealand
  13. Java (51'038 sq mi) - part of Indonesia
  14. North Island (44'702 sq mi) - part of New Zealand
  15. Cuba (42'803 sq mi) - in the Caribbean
  16. Newfoundland (42'031 sq mi) - part of Canada
  17. Luzon (40'420 sq mi) - part of Philippines
  18. Iceland (39'800 sq mi)
  19. Mindanao (36'537 sq mi) - part of Philippines
  20. Ireland (32'600 sq mi) - Republic of Ireland and part of UK
  21. Hokkaido (32'245 sq mi) - part of Japan
  22. Novaya Zemlya (31'900 sq mi) - part of Russia
  23. Sakhalin (29'500 sq mi) - part of Russia
  24. Hispaniola (29'300 sq mi) - states Haiti and Dominican Republic
  25. Banks Island (27'038 sq mi) - part of Canada
  26. Tasmania (26'200 sq mi) - part of Australia
  27. Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (24'900 sq mi)

Note: Australia is generally considered to be a continental landmass, rather than an island. If however one does count Australia among the islands it, not Greenland, would be the largest in the world (unless one also considered Antarctica an island).''

See also: List of islands (by country)