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What are the top 5 largest islands?

What are the top 5 largest islands?

The Largest Islands in the World

  • Greenland (836,330 sq miles/2,166,086 sq km)
  • New Guinea (317,150 sq miles/821,400 sq km)
  • Borneo (288,869 sq miles/748,168 sq km)
  • Madagascar (226,756 sq miles/587,295 sq km)
  • Baffin (195,928 sq miles/507,451 sq km)
  • Sumatra (171,069 sq miles/443,066 sq km)

What is the 6th largest island in the world?

Sumatra
Sumatra. Sumatra is the sixth-largest island in the world. It is one of the Sunda Islands of Indonesia located in the western part.

What are the 10 largest islands in the United States?

Islands over 250 square miles (650 km2)

Rank Island’s Name Area (sq mi)
1 Hawaii Island (the Big Island) 4,028
2 Kodiak Island 3,588
3 Puerto Rico 3,363
4 Prince of Wales Island 2,577

What is the 2 biggest island in the world?

New Guinea
2. New Guinea. New Guinea is the 2nd largest Island in the world, with an area of 785,753 sq km.

What’s bigger Australia or Greenland?

Australia is nearly four times as large as Greenland. If they were much closer in area, Greenland might have more of a case for continent status (and Australia for island status).

What are the 5 largest islands in the US?

Here are the five largest islands in the US:

  • Hawaii Island (The Big Island) – 10,433 Km2 Waipio Valley, Hawaii Island, Hawaii, US.
  • Kodiak Island (Alaska) – 9,239 Km. Kodiak Island, Alaska, US.
  • Puerto Rico – 8,710 Km.
  • Prince Of Wales Island (Alaska) – 6,675 Km.
  • Chichagof Island (Alaska) – 5,388 Km.

Is Kodiak Island bigger than Hawaii?

An item from The Associated Press in the Daily News on July 20 quoted former Gov. Sarah Palin identifying Kodiak as “America’s largest island.” The article gave the area of Kodiak as 3,588 square miles and 4,028 square miles for the island of Hawaii. The sizes given for both islands were all over the map, so to speak.

Which is bigger Australia or Greenland?

Is Greenland or South America bigger?

This may be due in part to the nature of two-dimensional maps. This is why Greenland appears to be similar in size to all of South America on Mercator maps, when in fact South America is more than eight times larger than Greenland.