Macau isn't an island; composed of a peninsula with two connected islands Taipa and Coloane; total population of around half a million...or am I missing something?
I see...I suppose if the cities of Macau/Zhuhai/zhongshan are lumped together it's a sizable population, however it's not really customary to call that region an island (basically part of the mainland delineated by Pearl River tributaries); much less calling it "Macau Island", which could be misleading as "Macau" generally refers to the much smaller peninsula or the administrative region. Anyway just my two cents from this part of the globe
The "delineated by tributaries" part is the definition of fluvial islands, though. There are multiple other fluvial islands on this list, and deciding to take whether locals refer to the region as an island is a terrible way to determine things for a quiz.
As for the name, Macau Island is only an acceptable name here because of historical reasons, and certainly would not be a fair type-in if the island had only become well-known in the last 30 years. Whether it should be included as a type-in at all is certainly debatable but not obviously "no".
Oceania is a region. Australasia is a little more blurry in its definition, but most lists of the continents list Australia. As I've said elsewhere on this site, if Australia is an island continent, then why are the Americas not an island continent? Why not is Afro-Eurasia not just considered one big island? You gotta stop somewhere and Greenland seems a logical place (i.e. you make the definitions of continent and island exclusive of each other).
You don't have to stop somewhere. The division between Australia and Greenland IS artificial. You could simply abandon the idea of continents altogether and then everywhere becomes an island.
The division between Australia and Greenland is far from artificial. Australia is a massive 7.6 million sq km landmass. Greenland is a (comparatively) tiny little thing that's only 2.1 million sq km.
Why would it be strange that Tasmania is allowed? I understand that Australia is a bit of a gray area around which there is some debate, but even if mainland Australia were considered an island for this quiz Tasmania would still be considered separately.
A map on this quiz would be really intresting tho, I have been killing google maps in between rounds to learn where the islands I didnt know were located.
So as someone who lived in Abu Dhabi for 3 years, I 100% agree with you that it should be there! 😁
However, the Wikipedia page used as the source for this quiz only lists the AUH island population as ~280,000 i.e.: well below the cutoff (it claims that AUH is the 116th largest in the world).
This is definitely wrong - being probably 20+ years out of date and the population is likely north of 1,000,000 now - but there's no way to update it. The Abu Dhabi government only conducts haphazard censuses at best (for various reasons) and while we have a 2021 est. municipal population of 1.5M, there's no breakdown as to how much is on AUH island vs. the mainland vs. other islands. So there's no citation to give for a newer figure for the Wiki page.
(You'll notice most entries in that table have a year & citation but Abu Dhabi's doesn't.)
So we just have to shrug and accept that AUH should be there but isn't.
Stay tuned for more and more islands to appear as sea levels rise! They say Nova Scotia's only got 15-20 more years as a peninsula before it says goodbye to its isthmus with New Brunswick for good.
Is it an idea to add the countries they belong to in the answers? That way everyone can learn a bit. I looked up a few, but there are too many to all look up, so most people wont I think.
I was curious about Lagos Island. I know it's small but anchors a metropolis of 20 million. The best sources I can find are 14 years out of date in a city of explosive growth and only cover the administrative division of one half of the island. That shows 200,000, but it would seem the total island is higher by now.
There are almost certainly 3-5 islands that should be on the list but aren't because of no/poor census data. Not much anyone can do about that unless you can convince people to conduct a proper census of the region, though.
The quiz says it was most recently updated in 2020 but Malta's population is much lower than the 2020 or 2019 estimates. I know it says populations are taken from a 2018 Wikipedia article, but you might want to update some of the populations.
All those cities built on really small islands make this quiz really hard. I live in the Netherlands and literally nobody here thinks of ijsselmonde as an island. And that is just one example.
When you think you're smart and intentionally don't try the world's biggest island, only to miss it's "icy" counterpart....ugh lol. 91/100 good for 4 stars, sheesh!
I think Macau should probably be removed from the list, apparently it isn't an island anymore. On both Google Earth and Maps it clearly isn't an island, and Wikipedia even calls the "island" the Macau Peninsula. Wikipedia is pretty contradictory on whether it's an island or not but it says on multiple pages about Macau that "Macau was once an island but gradually a connecting sandbar turned into a narrow isthmus." It's overall pretty confusing and not very clear.
Sounds like you don't know where the island is, because on Google Earth and Maps it pretty clearly *is* an island. Now, it's possible that you could argue that it's become an artificial pseudo-island separated more by "canals" than rivers (as the Chinese government does), but there are very clear areas of water around the island.
Probably, despite several comments on this quiz already explaining it, you are looking at the administrative region of Macau, which is not an island, but rather a small peninsula on the tip of Zhongshan Island (formerly called Macau Island, mostly by Europeans).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongshan_Dao
As for the name, Macau Island is only an acceptable name here because of historical reasons, and certainly would not be a fair type-in if the island had only become well-known in the last 30 years. Whether it should be included as a type-in at all is certainly debatable but not obviously "no".
However, the Wikipedia page used as the source for this quiz only lists the AUH island population as ~280,000 i.e.: well below the cutoff (it claims that AUH is the 116th largest in the world).
This is definitely wrong - being probably 20+ years out of date and the population is likely north of 1,000,000 now - but there's no way to update it. The Abu Dhabi government only conducts haphazard censuses at best (for various reasons) and while we have a 2021 est. municipal population of 1.5M, there's no breakdown as to how much is on AUH island vs. the mainland vs. other islands. So there's no citation to give for a newer figure for the Wiki page.
(You'll notice most entries in that table have a year & citation but Abu Dhabi's doesn't.)
So we just have to shrug and accept that AUH should be there but isn't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_islands_by_population
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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000224
2 more points (3 points total) for a 38/100 (1/100 higher).
Probably, despite several comments on this quiz already explaining it, you are looking at the administrative region of Macau, which is not an island, but rather a small peninsula on the tip of Zhongshan Island (formerly called Macau Island, mostly by Europeans).