The 2nd biggest island in the world is Papua New Guinea which covers 785,753 km sq.
new Guinea Island is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean in Melanesia and is separated from Australia by the Torres Strait, although the two landmasses were once joined during the Pleistocene glaciations.
New Guinea is also politically divided, with the eastern half of New Guinea belonging to Papua New Guinea and the western half belongs to Indonesia.
The New Guinea Island is also home to several indigenous cultures, towering mountains and dense rain forests which include the highest mountain in Oceania called Puncak Jaya.
The country that owns the most islands is Sweden which has around 267,570 islands.
The majority of the islands in Sweden are not inhabited although only around 1,000 of the islands are inhabited by residents.
The majority of the islands in Sweden which are inhabited are located in Northern Sweden along the Gulf of Bothnia.
Indonesia has 17,508 islands with around 6,000 of the islands being inhabited.
Japan has 120,729 islands with a circumference of at least 0.1 k.
And India has 1,382 islands which include 572 islands in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and 32 islands in Lakshadweep.
The country that has over 7000 islands is the Philippines.
The location of the over 7000 islands in the Philippines is the Western Pacific Ocean, around 500 miles off the coast of Vietnam.
The Philippines, is the island country of Southeast Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and is an archipelago that consists of more than 7,000 islands and islets which lay about 500 miles off the coast of Vietnam.
Greenland Island is the largest island on earth with a vast landmass that is covered by a massive ice sheet, which makes it significantly larger than any other island.
Greenland Island is located in the North Atlantic Ocean near North America and is considered an autonomous territory of Denmark.
The smallest island is Hub Island also known as Just Room Enough Island.
Hub Island is around 3,300 square feet or one thirteenth of an acre.
Hub Island which is the smallest island is located in the Thousand Islands chain of New York and is between Canada and the United States.
The Hub Island has a small house, shrubs, small beach and a tree.
The Sizeland family bought Hub Island in the 1950s and built a cottage and planted the tree.
The Hub Island is visible from a boat ride along the Saint Lawrence River.
Devon Island, in the Canadian North, is the world's largest uninhabited island.
Northeast Greenland National Park, which is the world's largest terrestrial protected area, has had a census population of 0 for many years since the only mine in the region closed.
Sandy Island (sometimes labelled in French Île de Sable, and in Spanish Isla Arenosa) is a phantom island that was charted for over a century as being located near the French territory of New Caledonia between the Chesterfield Islands and Nereus Reef in the eastern Coral Sea.