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Most Populous Islands of Europe

Try to name the islands in Europe with more than 10k inhabitants.
Azores, Canary islands, Cyprus and any overseas territories are not included
Whether something is considered an island is usually determined by whether it's called an island.
Quiz by LovesPoetry
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Last updated: December 9, 2017
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First submittedJuly 28, 2017
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Population
Country
Island
60.800k
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Great Britain
6.378k
-
Ireland
5.077k
Italy
Sicily
2.268k
Denmark
Sjaelland
1.656k
Italy
Sardinia
859k
Spain
Mallorca
764k
Sweden
Södertörn
623k
Greece
Crete
466k
Denmark
Fyn
423k
Netherlands
IJsselmonde
409k
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Malta
337k
Netherlands
Flevoland
333k
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Iceland
327k
France
Corsica
297k
Denmark
Vendsyssel-Thy
203k
Russia
Vasilyevsky
196k
Denmark
Amager
191k
Greece
Euboea
160k
Netherlands
Voorne-Putten
147k
United Kingdom
Portsea Island
140k
United Kingdom
Isle of Wight
133k
Spain
Ibiza
130k
Sweden
Hisingen
119k
Netherlands
Dordrecht
115k
Russia
Petrogradsky
110k
Sweden
Södermalm
102k
Greece
Corfu
100k
United Kingdom
Jersey
93k
Spain
Menorca
86k
Greece
Lesbos
85k
Netherlands
Hoeksche Waard
84k
United Kingdom
Isle of Man
77k
Germany
Rügen
76k
Germany/Poland
Usedom
70k
United Kingdom
Anglesey
63k
United Kingdom
Guernsey
63k
Denmark
Lolland
62k
Italy
Ischia
61k
Sweden
Kungsholmen
58k
Sweden
Gotland
52k
Greece
Chios
51k
Denmark
Als
51k
Greece
Rhodes
48k
Netherlands
Goeree-Overflakkee
48k
Sweden
Värmdö
46k
Denmark
Møn
43k
Denmark
Falster
43k
Russia
Kotlin
42k
Norway
Karmøy
41k
Greece
Zákynthos
40k
Denmark
Bornholm
40k
United Kingdom
Isle of Sheppey
39k
Greece
Salamis
38k
United Kingdom
Canvey
37k
Malta
Gozo
36k
Greece
Kefalonia
36k
Norway
Tromsøya
34k
Netherlands
Schouwen-Duiveland
33k
Italy
Elba
33k
Greece
Kos
33k
Greece
Samos
32k
Norway
Hinnøya
32k
Sweden
Lidingö
31k
Estonia
Saaremaa
Population
Country
Island
31k
Norway
Sotra
30k
Poland
Wolin
27k
Norway
Askøy
26k
Finland
Fasta Åland
25k
Sweden
Öland
23k
Greece
Lefkada
22k
Sweden
Hertsön
22k
France
Ile d'Oléron
22k
Denmark
Mors
22k
Denmark
Streymoy
22k
Greece
Syros
21k
Netherlands
IJburg
21k
Norway
Nøtterøy
21k
Germany
Sylt
20k
Finland
Lauttasaari
20k
United Kingdom
Lewis and Harris
20k
Italy
Lido di Venezia
19k
Croatia
Krk
19k
Greece
Naxos
19k
United Kingdom
Shetland Mainland
19k
Norway
Stord
18k
France
Ile de Ré
18k
Poland
Port Island
17k
United Kingdom
Hayling
17k
Greece
Lemnos
17k
United Kingdom
Orkney Mainland
16k
Sweden
Ekerö
16k
Greece
Kalymnos
16k
Croatia
Korčula
16k
Finland
Laajasalo
16k
Norway
Langøya
16k
Greece
Santorini
15k
Norway
Kirkelandet
15k
Sweden
Orust
15k
Sweden
Tjörn
14k
Croatia
Brač
14k
Greece
Paros
14k
Netherlands
Texel
14k
Greece
Thasos
13k
Greece
Aegina
13k
Italy
Cannaregio
13k
Ireland
Great Island
13k
United Kingdom
Holy Island
13k
Denmark
Langeland
13k
Italy
Maddalena
13k
Netherlands
Rozenburg
12k
Italy
Capri
12k
Germany
Fehmarn
12k
Italy
Lipari
12k
Italy
Sant'Antioco
11k
Sweden
Faringsö
11k
Spain
Formentera
11k
Croatia
Hvar
11k
France
Île de Nantes
11k
Italy
Procida
11k
United Kingdom
Walney
10k
Denmark
Eysturoy
10k
Norway
Kvaløya
10k
Croatia
Lošinj
10k
Greece
Mykonos
10k
France
Noirmoutier
10k
United Kingdom
Skye
10k
Norway
Vestvågøya
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Level 70
Jul 28, 2017
Good quiz!
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Level 43
Jul 28, 2017
Wow! Neat quiz. That's hard!
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Level 62
Jul 30, 2017
It's certainly hard. I couldn't get 100% myself
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Level 76
Aug 27, 2017
Great quiz! Syros and Mykonos are missing though.
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Level 62
Aug 28, 2017
Both are included now
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Level 77
Aug 27, 2017
"Kungskolmen" should really be "Kungsholmen". Also would love if "Saarenmaa" would accepted as a type-in.
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Level 56
Dec 6, 2017
It's called Saaremaa. I'm guessing Finnish is the only language which adds the N.
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Level 45
Dec 8, 2017
Currently Saarema works as a type-in (and it is thus impossible to write Saaremaa). For me, writing Saarenmaa is less of an insult than "Saarema", which probably doesn't mean anything in any language.
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Level 87
Aug 27, 2017
Only got 41 out of 124... embarrassing. Please accept "Thera" or "Thira" for Santorini.
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Level 90
Aug 28, 2017
Technically, 'Thira' is a region that covers Santorini (Thera) and other islands like amalfi and ios.
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Level 69
Aug 29, 2017
A lot of the Greek islands here are actually a part of Asia.
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Level 77
Aug 29, 2017
Without having checked any maps - if Asian Greek islands are in, then the Canary Islands and Madeira should be included. Perhaps going as far as Reunion and other colonial ones for France? On the other hand, Greece is mostly thought of as one chunk and all the islands being part of that "Greece proper", Madeira, Canaries and all those French outliers are thought of as outliers and not really part of X proper. Ehm. Just draw a line somewhere, and in true JetPunk fashion there'll be a bunch of people arguing that it should be somewhere else.
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Level 62
Aug 30, 2017
It's a bit difficult to draw the line between Europe and Asia somewhere in the Aegean, so I included all Aegean islands in the quiz. However, none of the Turkish islands are large enough. Gökçeada is the largest with 9k inhabitants.
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Level 59
Aug 29, 2017
Gran Canaria, Tenerife?
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Level 69
Dec 10, 2017
Read. The. Directions.

Azores, Canary islands, Cyprus and any overseas territories are not included

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Level 63
Aug 31, 2017
Crown dependencies should not considered part of UK.
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Level 89
Jul 6, 2018
What are they, part of China in North America?
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Level 79
Feb 6, 2023
They are not part of the United Kingdom.
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Level 69
Aug 31, 2017
I'm not clear on why Cyprus is not included?
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Level 83
Sep 1, 2017
I should direct yourself to the comments on pretty much any other quiz.
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Level 55
Oct 6, 2017
Insert Cyprus argument comments below:
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2017
This quiz might help any Cyprus related queries, https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/134559/cyprus-quiz
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Level 69
Oct 11, 2017
Great quiz. Please accept Lindisfarne for holy Island.
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Level 62
Oct 15, 2017
Lindisfarne is a different holy island. The one in the quiz is near Anglesey.
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Level 59
Jun 25, 2020
Didn't know there was more than one Holy Island. And this made the inclusion very puzzling because 10k people on THE Holy Island would be impossible long term and certainly not in social distancing times.

The fact that the Anglesey one has a population that big is quite surprising.

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Level 82
Oct 15, 2017
Lindisfarne has a population of 180.
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Level 64
Dec 6, 2017
Wonderful! Although I forgot the island I live on.
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Level 64
Dec 6, 2017
... and the one I work on.
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Level 66
Dec 6, 2017
Judging by the name, some of Stockholm's?
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Level 59
Dec 6, 2017
That was good fun (but difficult).
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Level 72
Dec 6, 2017
It is fun to see people have guessed sicily more thain britain...
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Level 74
Dec 6, 2017
Fun and very difficult. I got 37, although two of them were from typos that somehow happened to be acceptable type-ins for Streymoy and Goeree-Overflakkee. I only knew Ile de Re because my cousin did a summer exchange program there through his French class.
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Level 82
Dec 6, 2017
Not that anyone is going to miss it, but why blank out the UK for Great Britain? They're not the same thing technically.
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Level 47
Dec 6, 2017
"Whether something is considered an island is usually determined by whether it's called an island."

Shouldn't the Île-de-France be included then?

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Level 82
Dec 7, 2017
"usually". I guess it can be excluded if it obviously isn't an island.
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Level 89
Jul 6, 2018
How about the island in my kitchen and traffic islands?
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Level 82
Dec 17, 2019
I don't know what lives in your kitchen island, but only human inhabitants count.
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Level 56
Dec 6, 2017
This is basically "Name every island in Europe you know". Is there any other version that has, for example, the 20 most populous islands?
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Level 82
Dec 7, 2017
There are plenty famous smaller islands – Stromboli, Vulcano, Lampedusa, Heligoland, Ios, Patmos and many other Greek and Croatian islands. Or Scottish or Scandinavian if one is more familiar with that part of Europe
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Level 14
Dec 6, 2017
Cyprus?
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Level 55
Dec 7, 2017
Specifically excluded (in the instructions). Geographically, Cyprus "belongs" to Asia.
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2017
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/134559/cyprus-quiz
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Level 69
Dec 6, 2017
Flevoland should be replaced by Flevopolder. Flevoland (population 408k) is the entire province consisting of 1/3 part reclaimed mainland (Noordoostpolder) and 2/3 island. The island part is called Flevopolder and only has 317k inhabitants.
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Level 62
Dec 6, 2017
Looks like you're right. I've fixed the population. The name flevoland can also refer to the island part though.
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Level 69
Dec 6, 2017
I really cannot find any source referring to the island part as Flevoland. I think you can allow it as a possible answer, but it really should show up as Flevopolder
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Level 77
Dec 6, 2017
I am proud for getting a mere 26...
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Level 65
Dec 6, 2017
There's something wrong with Venice. Just Cannaregio is listed, but it's just one of the six historical neighborhoods that constitute the city, the others being Castello (30k inhabitants), Dorsoduro (15,5k), Santa Croce (5k), San Marco (4k) and San Polo (4k). None of these properly makes up a single island, since the original topography of the lagoon has been - quite obviously - deeply reshaped century after century. Venice should be definitely counted as one, with around 60k inhabitants as a whole.
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Level 66
Dec 6, 2017
What about Wolin, Poland? Adjacent to Usedom, Poland's largest island, with a population of 30,000.
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Level 62
Dec 7, 2017
Thanks. Wolin is included now.
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Level 66
Dec 6, 2017
Got 47, including Noirmoutier (thanks for starting there in 2018, Tour de France!) but missed out on Mykonos (spelled it Myconos) Shetland and Orkney Mainland (Mainland alone wasn't enough), Anglesey (spelled it Anglesea), Fehmarn (missed one “Germany” clue apparently), and all the other ones which either didn't cross my mind or which I never heard of before.
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Level 61
Dec 6, 2017
Should be named "Islands of Europe"
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Level 54
Dec 7, 2017
I only got 16 but one of them was Tromsøya, so eat my dust 96% of you!
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Level 73
Dec 7, 2017
EIther you're Norwegian or love soccer. Or midnight sun. Anyway, great job!
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Level 71
Dec 7, 2017
Good quiz but I did not do very well on this quiz, I never realised there were so many populated islands in Europe, I'll have to swat up a bit more before trying this again.
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Level 59
Feb 20, 2018
Some of these islands are neighbourhoods of cities like Lauttasaari in Helsinki and Kungsholmen ans Södermalm in Stockholm
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Level 86
Dec 10, 2017
Most of the Azores are on the Eurasian plate (including the four with a population over 10k), so I would clearly have included them.
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Level 74
Dec 13, 2017
The plates aren't the defining factor for Europe. Sicily, Crete and so aren't on it, but Hainan is.
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Level 89
Jul 6, 2018
The Chinese island is on the European plate?
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Level 74
Mar 26, 2019
There is only the Eurasian Plate, not an European one.
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Level 82
Oct 2, 2021
Plate tectonics were discovered a very, very long time after the concept of continents was birthed and the two things have very little to do with one another.
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Level 89
Jul 6, 2018
Got 127 / 127 with 17:59 left. Someone had to.
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Level 71
Aug 18, 2018
A few nitpicks: One of the umlauts of Färingsö are missing. Sjælland is spelled with æ. You have included Södertörn although parts of it are only separated from the mainland by manmade canals. I guess you've included it because Statistics Sweden has classified it as an island (since 2014). But at the same time, the same government organization has stopped classifying Hertsön as an island (also since 2014).

And a question: What continent do the Azores belong to if not Europe? You have included the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Åland even though they are overseas territories.

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Level 82
Dec 17, 2019
They're territories, but not overseas. And clearly in Europe.
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Level 74
Nov 20, 2018
Wow, epic quiz, thank you. Can you accept 'Port' for Port Island? None of the other ones require Isand and I thought I was wrong.
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Level 62
Nov 20, 2018
Gdansk will work for port island
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Level 60
Apr 24, 2023
Can you accept Danzig, which is what I tried?
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Level 57
Sep 16, 2023
why he would? The quiz is in english, not in german lol
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Level 15
Jan 14, 2019
The note says "Azores, Canary Islands, Cyprus and any overseas territories are not included". Madeira is not any of the above, yet it is not an answer to the quiz.
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Level 54
Jun 10, 2019
Got 99 first time. Beat 98%in kirkelandet. Got all russia, finish, swedish, Norwegians, danish, iceland, british, spanish and french.
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Level 93
Jun 18, 2019
What about isle of dogs in London? Population seems to be about 56000. It's at that bend in the river next to the O2/canary wharf business district.
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Level 66
Jul 17, 2019
The lowest % I guessed, which isnt in my own country, is mykonos. And I got Fasta Åland while trying to get Öland ( I think... maybe I did mean Åland, I just never seen/heard it with fasta in front
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Level 66
Jul 17, 2019
I just realised... is öland beerland? hahah wait I guess that would need a double l.

(Which I guess would mean oil country in german)

:D

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Level 67
Dec 20, 2020
No. Öland is island.
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Level 62
Jul 17, 2019
Åland refers to the archipelago. Fasta åland is the main island in the archipelago. It's similar to Shetland mainland in the Shetland islands for example.
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Level 95
Jul 27, 2019
I'd love to see this quiz with a map.
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Level 72
Sep 14, 2019
Hiiumaa island in Estonia should be on here, it has just over 10k people.
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Level 63
Dec 4, 2019
The homepage of the municipality Hiiumaa Vald lists a population of 9558. Which is also used in the English Wikipedia article with an additional "(2019)". While the Wikipedia article in my language lists 11087 which is probably older data.
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Level 81
Sep 29, 2019
'Salamina' should be taken as a correct answer. This is the modern Greek name for the island.
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Level 71
Oct 7, 2019
Can't believe I missed the Island I was born on...
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Level 68
Mar 8, 2020
got 25. Proud. But can't believe I forgot Iceland and Sodermalm. I was in Sodermalm few weeks ago!.
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Level 72
Apr 22, 2020
This is just silly, calling a polder an island, crikey I lived on sodermalm, never saw it as an island spose it is tho. How about the Isle of Dogs in London, romney thanet etc etc.
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Level 60
Aug 18, 2020
31/127...not bad when i've never been to Europe.
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Level 56
Jan 14, 2021
41/127 got krk by spamming when I got frustrated
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Level 79
Feb 14, 2021
Great quiz! But why are separating points used instead of separating commas, like 60.800k instead of 60,800k?
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Level 55
Mar 19, 2021
'k' stands for 1,000 so 60,800k would be 60,800*1,000 of 60,800,000
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Level 73
Sep 7, 2021
Pandora is incorrect, 60,800k is the population of Great Britain.

The use of the point rather than the comma is a European convention. It's a bit confusing but appropriate given the topic of the quiz.

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Level 32
Aug 14, 2021
How I could forget Wolin and Usedom... my family is from Szczecin
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Level 55
Apr 18, 2022
Since when is IJsselmonde an island?
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Level 43
Jun 4, 2022
Hi i was wondering if you could add bømlo it is an island in norway with a population of around 12000 people.
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Level 62
Aug 11, 2022
Prater / Leopoldstadt in Vienna is missing.
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Level 60
Apr 24, 2023
Wow, Great Britain's population is much higher than I expected! Nice quiz.

Very pedantic, but the "i" in Canary islands should be capitalized.

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Level 68
Sep 3, 2023
Near misses in France :

L'Île-Saint-Denis, an island city on the Seine river in the suburbs of Paris, with 8646 inhab.

Grande-Île in Strasbourg, unfortunately there is no reliable data. This city website says 14675 inhab including a small adjacent neighbourhood, so it is reasonable to suppose Grande-Île has about 10k.

https://www.strasbourg.eu/grandeile#:~:text=Le%20quartier%20Grande%2D%C3%AEle%20compte,1%20%25%20de%20la%20population%20strasbourgeoise.

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Level 74
Sep 18, 2023
You're missing Žitný ostrov (ca. 226k)
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Level 52
Feb 5, 2024
I am from the Netherlands and I've never ever heard of most of these islands lol