okay. I thought with all the crazy building projects going on over in the Emirates they might have just altered the coastline so that it wasn't an island anymore. :) Wouldn't be surprising.
Could you accept Sjaelland for Zealand and Kyusu for Kyushu. Those are the names I've seen on every map. Sjaelland with æ or with ae should be accepted.
Haha. I didn't "forget" them. However, your comment made me take a look at the updated data. Corsica was too small a year ago, and still doesn't make the list because their growth wasn't enough. Guadeloupe is an island chain, not a single island. Guadeloupe's most populous island is Grande-Terre, with a population of just under 200,000.
Thanks for the info! I tried both and wondered about it, but I confess I would have been too lazy to look it up myself :-D. I didn't even know there was more than one island in Guadeloupe! Always good to know. :)
Alright, with the updated numbers, Corsica is definitely not on the list. Guadeloupe is sometimes considered as a single island, but that's right, there is a thin strait between Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre ;).
Lucky you :). I got just two islands from my region (province of Québec, Canada), Montréal and l'île Jésus. For Indonesia I can remember the big 5 plus Bali and Timor, but I'm sure among the 60 islands I did not get there are a ton more that were from Indonesia.
Hong Kong Island and Manhattan may be the respective centres of their cities and be home to their famous skylines, but the majority of both cities' populations live elsewhere. Kowloon has a lot more people than HK Island and Brooklyn has a lot more people than Manhattan.
Findlay, your statement is true as far as it goes. But Brooklyn's population (along with that of Queens) is part of Long Island while Manhattan is its own land mass. Therefore, Manhattan gets a mention on a list of islands while Brooklyn doesn't.
I'd be way more excited about being from Indonesia for exciting travel and beauty reasons than for being able to do well on a quiz. Indonesia is near the very tippy top of my bucket list!! (I'm American.)
I feel like 50% of this quiz is just islands in Indonesia and the Philippines. I only know the most famous islands (again, the big 5 and Bali and Timor) from Indonesia, and I knew even fewer from the Philippines :P
North Island has both Auckland and Wellington, most people probably just assume the South Island's population is too small and don't try it. I confess I wrote North Island first and then only came back to South when I looked at the smallest population figure listed here and realised it was less people than in Christchurch.
Yeah, I'm from South Gujarat, not far from Mumbai and I have to go to the International Airport in Mumbai to get to Gujarat as I live in England. I had no idea that it was an island until my parents told me that it is a very densely populated island and is also a port city.
You probably assumed Malta and Singapore were too small. Madagascar's pretty isolated. Tasmania is part of Australia (the country), which you probably ignored because Australia (the landmass) is not included.
That population for "Ukerewe Island" is for the whole Ukerewe district that contains several islands apart from the main one. Ukerewe Island's population will be at least 20,000 less, probably too small to make this list.
I'm Indonesian and I just typed every random island in my country that I thought of. I got 22 out of 25 Indonesian island in this list with overall score of 56
You are wrong, I live on long island and they are islands. In order to get into manhattan and mainland new york you cross water! I have done it many times.
For the North Island and South Island I wrote "New Zealand Northern Island" and "New Zealand Southern Island." I guess that's not close enough. Also, I was so proud that I got Manhattan and I didn't even get Long Island.
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
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.
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!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongshan_Dao
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).