List of islands by population

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This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population. It includes all islands with a population of more than 1,000,000 people. See also the list of islands and the list of islands by area. The populations given are from the Wikipedia article where a census date is not given.

1 Land masses
2 Islands
3 Footnotes
4 See also
5 External link

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Land masses

Africa-Eurasia - 5,000,000,000
America - 900,000,000
Australia¹ - 20,000,000
Antarctica² - 0

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Islands

Ranking	Island	Country	Population
1	Java	Indonesia	114,000,000
2	Honshu	Japan	98,352,000 (1990)
3	Great Britain	United Kingdom	58,000,000 (2001)
4	Luzon	Philippines	42,800,000 (2000)
5	Sumatra	Indonesia	40,000,000
6	Taiwan	Republic of China	22,191,000
7	Sri Lanka	independent	19,608,000
8	Mindanao	Philippines	17,600,000 (1997 est)
9	Madagascar	independent	17,400,000 (2004 est)
10	Hispaniola	Dominican Republic and Haiti	16,000,000
11	Borneo	Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei	16,000,000 (2000 est)
12	Sulawesi	Indonesia	14,900,000 (2000)
13	Kyushu	Japan	13,400,000 (1995)
14	Salsette	India	13,000,000
15	Cuba	independent	11,080,000
16	Hainan	China	7,620,000
17	Long Island	United States	7,400,000
18	New Guinea	Papua New Guinea and Indonesia	6,900,000
19	Hokkaido	Japan	5,677,000
20	Ireland	Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom	5,600,000
21	Sicily	Italy	5,080,000
22	Shikoku	Japan	4,200,000
23	Puerto Rico	commonwealth of United States	3,900,000
24	Negros	Philippines	3,700,000
25	Singapore	independent	3,500,000
26	Panay	Philippines	3,500,000
27	Cebu	Philippines	3,100,000
28	Madura	Indonesia	3,100,000
29	Bali	Indonesia	2,930,000
30	North Island	New Zealand	2,820,000
31	Jamaica	independent	2,730,000
32	Lombok	Indonesia	2,700,000
33	Zhongchan Dao	China	2,300,000
34	Timor	Indonesia and East Timor	2,200,000
35	Sjælland	Denmark	2,108,877
36	Leyte	Philippines	1,830,000
37	Flores	Indonesia	1,800,000
38	Island of Montreal	Canada	1,800,000
39	Dakhin Shahbazpur	Bangladesh	1,700,000
40	Sardinia	Italy	1,600,000
41	Manhattan	United States	1,529,000
42	Samar	Philippines	1,370,000
43	Hong Kong Island	China	1,230,000
44	Okinawa	Japan	1,150,000
45	Mauritius	independent	1,144,000
46	Trinidad	Trinidad and Tobago	1,030,000

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Footnotes

Note 1: - It is generally accepted that Australia is not an island - if it were considered as such it would rank seventh.
Note 2: - Antarctica has no permanent residents, but there are usually at least 1,000 people (mostly research personnel) living at its bases.

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