List of islands by population
From Freepedia
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population. It includes all islands with a population of more than 10,000,000 people. See also the list of islands and the list of islands by area. The populations given are from the Wikipedia article where a census date is not given.
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Land masses
- Africa-Eurasia - 5,000,000,000
- America - 900,000,000
- Australia1 - 20,000,000
- Antarctica2 - 0
Islands
- Java - 114,000,000
- Honshu - 98,352,000 (1990)
- Great Britain - 58,000,000 (2001)
- Luzon - 42,800,000 (2000)
- Sumatra - 40,000,000
- Taiwan - 22,191,000
- Sri Lanka - 19,608,000
- Mindanao - 17,600,000 (1997 est)
- Madagascar - 17,400,000 (2004 est)
- Hispaniola - 16,000,000
- Borneo - 16,000,000 (2000 est)
- Sulawesi - 14,900,000 (2000)
- Kyushu - 13,400,000 (1995)
- Salsette - 13,000,000 ? (Cities of Mumbai and Thane)
- Cuba - 11,080,000
- Hainan - 7,620,000
- Long Island - 7,400,000
- New Guinea - 6,900,000
- Hokkaido - 5,677,000
- Ireland - 5,600,000
- Sicily - 5,080,000
- Shikoku - 4,200,000
- Puerto Rico - 3,900,000
- Negros - 3,700,000
- Singapore - 3,500,000
- Panay - 3,500,000
- Cebu - 3,100,000
- Madura - 3,100,000
- Bali - 2,930,000
- North Island - 2,820,000
- Jamaica - 2,730,000
- Lombok - 2,700,000
- Zhongchan Dao - 2,300,000
- Timor - 2,200,000
- Sjælland - 2,108,877
- Leyte - 1,830,000
- Flores - 1,800,000
- Island of Montreal - 1,800,000
- Dakhin Shahbazpur - 1,700,000
- Sardinia - 1,600,000
- Manhattan - 1,529,000
- Samar - 1,370,000
- Hong Kong Island - 1,230,000
- Okinawa - 1,150,000
- Mauritius - 1,144,000
- Trinidad - 1,030,000
Footnotes
- Note 1: - It is generally accepted that Australia is not an island - if it were considered as such it would rank seventh.
- Note 2: - Antarctica has no permanent residents, but there are usually at least 1,000 people (mostly research personnel) living at its bases.
