Statistics for Asian Islands

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Clue	Island	% Correct
"India's teardrop"	Sri Lanka	95%
City-state on the tip of the Malay Peninsula	Singapore	90%
Most populous island of Japan	Honshu	84%
Formerly known as Formosa	Taiwan	84%
Northernmost of Japan's four main islands	Hokkaido	81%
Shared by Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei	Borneo	80%
Most populous island in the world	Java	80%
Indonesian resort island	Bali	79%
Island country in the Persian Gulf	Bahrain	77%
The eastern part of this island became an independent country in 2002	Timor	69%
Shares its name with the second most populous city in the UAE	Abu Dhabi	66%
World's second largest island (often considered part of Oceania)	New Guinea	65%
Manila's island	Luzon	64%
Separated from Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca	Sumatra	62%
Volcanic island that erupted spectacularly in 1883	Krakatoa	59%
Resort island of southern Thailand	Phuket	56%
Largest of Japan's Ryukyu islands; site of a bloody WWII battle	Okinawa	54%
China's largest island	Hainan	49%
Largest in Russia, just north of Japan	Sakhalin	39%
Large southern Philippine island	Mindanao	37%
Contains South Korea's highest mountain	Jeju	32%
Large Yemeni island in the Arabian Sea	Socotra	29%