Country statistics

Island & archipelagic nations

Sovereign countries with no land borders — purely maritime states reached only by sea or air.

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Island nations range from the vast continental landmass of Australia to the dispersed atolls of the Pacific. The category here includes both single-island states and multi-island archipelagos — anywhere a country has no land border with another. Many of these nations are custodians of enormous exclusive economic zones, putting them at the front line of marine conservation, fisheries policy, and climate-change adaptation. Sort by area to see how a tiny population can govern a huge ocean territory.

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1	American Samoa	49,710	199	Oceania	Pago Pago
2	Anguilla	16,010	91	Americas	The Valley
3	Antarctica	1,300	14,000,000	Antarctic	—
4	Antigua and Barbuda	103,603	442	Americas	Saint John's
5	Aruba	107,566	180	Americas	Oranjestad
6	Australia	27,536,874	7,692,024	Oceania	Canberra
7	Bahamas	398,165	13,943	Americas	Nassau
8	Bahrain	1,594,654	765	Asia	Manama
9	Barbados	267,800	430	Americas	Bridgetown
10	Bermuda	64,055	54	Americas	Hamilton
11	British Virgin Islands	39,471	151	Americas	Road Town
12	Cape Verde	491,233	4,033	Africa	Praia
13	Caribbean Netherlands	31,980	328	Americas	Kralendijk
14	Cayman Islands	84,738	264	Americas	George Town
15	Christmas Island	1,692	135	Oceania	Flying Fish Cove
16	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	593	14	Oceania	West Island
17	Comoros	919,901	1,862	Africa	Moroni
18	Cook Islands	15,040	236	Oceania	Avarua
19	Cuba	9,748,007	109,884	Americas	Havana
20	Curaçao	156,115	444	Americas	Willemstad
21	Cyprus	1,442,614	9,251	Europe	Nicosia
22	Dominica	67,408	751	Americas	Roseau
23	Falkland Islands	3,662	12,173	Americas	Stanley
24	Faroe Islands	54,885	1,393	Europe	Tórshavn
25	Fiji	900,869	18,272	Oceania	Suva
26	French Polynesia	279,500	4,167	Oceania	Papeetē
27	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	400	7,747	Antarctic	Port-aux-Français
28	Greenland	56,542	2,166,086	Americas	Nuuk
29	Grenada	109,021	344	Americas	St. George's
30	Guadeloupe	378,561	1,628	Americas	Basse-Terre
31	Guam	153,836	549	Oceania	Hagåtña
32	Guernsey	64,781	78	Europe	St. Peter Port
33	Iceland	391,810	103,000	Europe	Reykjavik
34	Isle of Man	84,530	572	Europe	Douglas
35	Jamaica	2,825,544	10,991	Americas	Kingston
36	Japan	123,210,000	377,930	Asia	Tokyo
37	Jersey	103,267	116	Europe	Saint Helier
38	Kiribati	120,740	811	Oceania	South Tarawa
39	Åland Islands	30,654	1,580	Europe	Mariehamn
40	Madagascar	31,727,042	587,041	Africa	Antananarivo
41	Maldives	515,132	300	Asia	Malé
42	Malta	574,250	316	Europe	Valletta
43	Marshall Islands	42,418	181	Oceania	Majuro
44	Martinique	349,925	1,128	Americas	Fort-de-France
45	Mauritius	1,243,741	2,040	Africa	Port Louis
46	Mayotte	320,901	374	Africa	Mamoudzou
47	Micronesia	105,564	702	Oceania	Palikir
48	Montserrat	4,386	102	Americas	Plymouth
49	Nauru	11,680	21	Oceania	Yaren
50	New Caledonia	264,596	18,575	Oceania	Nouméa
51	New Zealand	5,324,700	268,838	Oceania	Wellington
52	Niue	1,681	260	Oceania	Alofi
53	Norfolk Island	2,188	36	Oceania	Kingston
54	Northern Mariana Islands	47,329	464	Oceania	Saipan
55	Palau	16,733	459	Oceania	Ngerulmud
56	Philippines	114,123,600	342,353	Asia	Manila
57	Pitcairn Islands	35	47	Oceania	Adamstown
58	Puerto Rico	3,203,295	8,870	Americas	San Juan
59	Réunion	896,175	2,511	Africa	Saint-Denis
60	São Tomé and Príncipe	209,607	964	Africa	São Tomé
61	Saint Barthélemy	10,562	21	Americas	Gustavia
62	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	5,651	394	Africa	Jamestown
63	Saint Kitts and Nevis	51,320	261	Americas	Basseterre
64	Saint Lucia	184,100	616	Americas	Castries
65	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	5,819	242	Americas	Saint-Pierre
66	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	110,872	389	Americas	Kingstown
67	Samoa	205,557	2,842	Oceania	Apia
68	Seychelles	122,729	452	Africa	Victoria
69	Singapore	6,110,200	710	Asia	Singapore
70	Solomon Islands	750,325	28,896	Oceania	Honiara
71	Sri Lanka	21,763,170	65,610	Asia	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
72	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	2,530	61,399	Europe	Longyearbyen
73	Taiwan	23,317,031	36,197	Asia	Taipei
74	Tokelau	2,608	12	Oceania	Fakaofo
75	Tonga	100,179	747	Oceania	Nuku'alofa
76	Trinidad and Tobago	1,367,764	5,130	Americas	Port of Spain
77	Turks and Caicos Islands	50,828	948	Americas	Cockburn Town
78	Tuvalu	10,643	26	Oceania	Funafuti
79	United States Virgin Islands	87,146	347	Americas	Charlotte Amalie
80	Vanuatu	321,409	12,189	Oceania	Port Vila
81	Wallis and Futuna	11,620	142	Oceania	Mata-Utu