Talk:List of countries by number of islands

Countries without reliable sources
I have been unable to find reliable sources for the number of islands in these countries. If a country is not in the article and not listed here then I haven't looked (yet). Please feel free to remove an entry here if you can find a reliable source and add it to the article. Thryduulf (talk) 11:59, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Afghanistan (>=1 based on List of countries by largest island)
 * Albania (number inhabited)
 * Algeria (number inhabited, likely 0)
 * Andorra (almost certainly 0, but nothing seems to say that)
 * Angola (has plenty of islands, an unsourced list, but I can't find any source with any numbers other than one from the late 19th century saying "many").
 * Argentina (sources may be out there but search results are flooded by pages about the Falkland Islands dispute)
 * Australia (number inhabited)
 * India (number inhabited)
 * Luxembourg (I removed an unsourced figure of 0 from the table, it likely has riverine islands)
 * New Zealand (number inhabited)
 * This article is poorly written. The article title should be changed to "List of countries by number of sea islands". If we include river islands and lake islands, the whole article would become very messy and I seriously doubt there would be enough reliable sources to support this kind of statistical data. All landlocked countries should be automatically excluded from the list. 120.16.149.175 (talk) 05:56, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Maldives. Usedtobecool ☎️ 14:45, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

You miss out the British isles, but I realise that's complicated by Ireland's being the second largest of them. Maybe the so-called United Kingdom? FangoFuficius (talk) 14:56, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Not sorted correctly.
So, this is a list of countries that says how many islands are present in those countries. However, the title says that this is a list of countries by number of islands, which this isn't. This is a list of countries in alphabetical order, not by number of islands. It's about as useful as shuffling them. PeterGregson11 (talk) 16:23, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

islands of Canada
There is something wrong with that figure. Arctic Archipelago has the figure 36,563. https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia/Geography-of-B-C says There are 40,000 islands throughout B.C. That sums up to 76,000 and the other provinces have islands also. 109.240.250.73 (talk) 23:37, 15 October 2022 (UTC)


 * This lists only the coastal islands of Canada. If all the islands in Canada would be listed Canada would be the number one in this list and by far! 37.98.132.136 (talk) 19:44, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Brazil
When I was a kid I learned that Brazil has 4 islands: Fernando de Noronha, Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo, Atol das Rocas and Trindade e Martim Vaz. Why aren't they listed here? JoãotheWikiFan (talk) 16:27, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Lots of random numbers not lining up with the sources here. I see lots of tiny changes in the history. Article is completely unreliable in its current state. 111.106.166.232 (talk) 08:01, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Norway's inhabited islands
The text currently states that Norway has 4 inhabited islands. This number is obviously completely wrong. 89.162.68.203 (talk) 21:24, 16 July 2023 (UTC)


 * You're entirely correct.
 * The truth about this is that there is no effective reference tool because there's too many isles where people might actually live their lives on.
 * I checked the list of isles in Norway here on Wikipedia and it had well above 350 named isles and I checked about 60 of them at random and most of them seemed to have some sort of buildings on them on google maps.
 * I'm pretty sure some of the buildings we see on google maps are more or less summer houses but getting to know which are inhabited fulltime or during vacation-times is going to be a bit of a chore to figure out.
 * There is the angle of going through that list and ask the municipal authorities that does census on the populace on said isles if they have permanent inhabitants on them or not. But that seems like a lot of work. 84.52.235.83 (talk) 20:11, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

RefList
I don’t know how to edit the reference list.

The text describing a link to WorldData currently goes to a Swedish site (presumably used by WorldData). .

The link should be https://www.worlddata.info/islands-by-country.php

It includes this useful bit of info;
 * In 2011, Norway increased the number of its own islands by an unbelievable 240,000 because satellite photos have now discovered exactly this number and they did not even know it before. The Philippines, which proudly reported 7,107 islands in every (outdated) travel guide, is also constantly increasing the number. In 2016, this number was officially raised to 7,641 islands.

MBG02 (talk) 05:51, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

US Inhabited Islands
Where is this 10000 number coming from, it’s not mentioned in the attached source. Also that source (62) seems dubious. An article from “World Atlas” with no sources? 174.204.4.41 (talk) 16:04, 12 March 2024 (UTC)