The Pacific islands are a group of

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s in the

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. They are further categorized into three major island groups:

Melanesia Melanesia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea. The region includes the four independent countries of Fiji, Vanu ...

, Micronesia, and

Polynesia Polynesia ( , ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians. They have many things in ...

. Depending on the context, the term ''Pacific Islands'' may refer to one of several concepts: (1) those countries and islands with common Austronesian origins, (2) the islands once (or currently) colonized, (3) the geographical region of

Oceania Oceania ( , ) is a region, geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Outside of the English-speaking world, Oceania is generally considered a continent, while Mainland Australia is regarded as its co ...

, or (4) any island located in the Pacific Ocean. This list of islands in the Pacific Ocean is organized by

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or political boundary. In order to keep this list of moderate size, the more complete lists for countries with large numbers of small or uninhabited islands have been hyperlinked.

Name ambiguity and groupings

The umbrella term ''Pacific Islands'' has taken on several meanings. Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Toa Samoa. At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Han Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, Indonesians, or Japanese, or by the United States. Examples include

Borneo Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...

, the Pitcairn Islands and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

(also known as Formosa). A commonly applied biogeographic definition includes islands with oceanic geology that lie within Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and the eastern Pacific (also known as the southeastern Pacific). These are usually considered to be the "Tropical Pacific Islands". In the 1990s, ecologists Dieter Mueller-Dombois and Frederic Raymond Fosberg broke the Tropical Pacific Islands up into the following subdivisions: * Western Melanesia ** The Bismarck Archipelago and other islands directly east of

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

** Bougainville and Buka Island ** The

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, t ...

* Eastern Melanesia ** The Santa Cruz Islands **

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

* Subtropical islands in the Australia/New Zealand region **

Lord Howe Island Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies directly east of mainland Port ...

** Norfolk Island * Micronesia ** The

Bonin Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , is a list of islands of Japan, Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and Island#Tropical islands, tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam. The group as a whole has a total ...

and Volcano Islands ** Marcus Island ** The Northern Marianas ** The Southern Marianas ** The Caroline Islands ** Nauru and Banaba ** Wake Island **

Palau Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approximately 340 islands and is the western part of the Caroline Islands ...

** The

Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory consists of 29 c ...

** The Gilbert Islands (

Kiribati Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa. The st ...

) * Central Polynesia **

Johnston Atoll Johnston Atoll is an Unincorporated territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States, under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force (USAF). The island is closed to public entry, and limited access for mana ...

** The

Phoenix Islands The Phoenix Islands, or Rawaki, are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs that lie east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa. They are part of the Kiribati, Republic ...

** The Line Islands ** Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Malden Island and Starbuck Island **

Tuvalu Tuvalu ( ) is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Van ...

Tokelau Tokelau (; ; known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean. It consists of three tropical coral atolls: Atafu, Nukunonu, an ...

and the Northern Cook Islands ( Pukapuka, Nassau, Rakahanga, Manihiki, Penrhyn, Suwarrow and Palmerston) * Western Polynesia **

Tonga Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...

Wallis and Futuna Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (), is a French island territorial collectivity, collectivity in the Oceania, South Pacific, situated between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga t ...

** Niue * Eastern Polynesia ** The rest of the Cook Islands ** The

Austral Islands The Austral Islands ( officially ''Archipel des Australes;'' ) are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas country of France, overseas country of the France, French Republic in the Oceania, South Pacific. Geographicall ...

** The Society Islands ** The Tuamotu Archipelago and the Pitcairn Islands ** Easter Island and Salas y Gómez ** The Marquesas Islands * Northern Polynesia ** The Hawaiian Islands * Oceanic islands of the Eastern Pacific ** The Revillagigedo Islands **

Cocos Island Cocos Island () is a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately southwest of the Costa Rican mainland. It constitutes the 11th of the 15 districts of Puntarenas Canton of the Puntarenas Province, Province of ...

and Malpelo Island ** Clipperton Island ** The

Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands () are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the equator, west of the mainland of South America. They form the Galápagos Province of the Republic of Ecuador, with a population of sli ...

** The Desventuradas Islands ** The

Juan Fernández Islands The Juan Fernández Islands () are a sparsely inhabited series of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, reliant on tourism and fishing. Situated off the coast of Chile, they are composed of three main volcanic islands: Robinson Crusoe Island, R ...

Geopolitics and Oceania grouping

The 2007 book ''Asia in the Pacific Islands: Replacing the West'', by New Zealand Pacific scholar Ron Crocombe, considers the phrase ''Pacific Islands'' to politically encompass

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, Australia, the

, the Cook Islands, Easter Island, East Timor,

Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia (, abbreviated FSM), or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a region of Oceania. The federation encompasses the majority of the Caroline Islands (excluding Palau) and consists of four Admin ...

French Polynesia French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The t ...

, the Galápagos Islands, Guam, Hawaii, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Niue, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau,

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, the Torres Strait Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Western New Guinea and the

United States Minor Outlying Islands The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Isla ...

(Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island). Crocombe noted that Easter Island, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, the Galápagos Islands, the Kermadec Islands, the Pitcairn Islands and the Torres Strait Islands currently have no geopolitical connections to

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, but that they could be of future strategic importance in the Asia-Pacific. Another definition given in the book for the term ''Pacific Islands'' is islands served by the Pacific Community, formerly known as the South Pacific Commission. It is a developmental organization whose members include Australia and the aforementioned islands which are not politically part of other countries. In his 1962 book ''War in the Pacific: Strategy and Command'', American author Louis Morton places the insular landmasses of the Pacific under the label of the "Pacific World". He considers it to encompass areas that were involved in the Pacific Theater of

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. These areas include the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, as well as Australia, the Aleutian Islands, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, the

Ryukyu Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Geography of Taiwan, Taiwan: the Ryukyu Islands are divided into the Satsunan Islands (Ōsumi Islands, Ōsumi, Tokara Islands, Tokara and A ...

and Taiwan. Pacific Map 1851 SLNSW FL14253043

Since the beginning of the 19th century, Australia and the islands of the Pacific have been grouped by geographers into a region called Oceania. It is often used as a quasi-continent, with the Pacific Ocean being the defining characteristic. In some countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, China, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Greece, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Switzerland or Venezuela, Oceania is seen as a proper continent in the sense that it is "one of the parts of the world". In his 1879 book ''Australasia'', British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace commented that, "Oceania is the word often used by continental geographers to describe the great world of islands we are now entering upon" and that "Australia forms its central and most important feature." 19th century definitions encompassed the region as beginning in the Malay Archipelago, and as ending near the Americas. In the 19th century, many geographers divided up Oceania into mostly racially-based subdivisions; ''Australasia'', ''Malaysia'' (encompassing the Malay Archipelago), ''Melanesia'', ''Micronesia'' and ''Polynesia''. The 1995 book ''The Pacific Island States'', by Australian author Stephen Henningham, claims that Oceania in its broadest sense "incorporates all the insular areas between the Americas and Asia." In its broadest possible usage, it could include Australia, the Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian islands, the Japanese and Malay Archipelagos, Taiwan, the Ryukyu and Kuril Islands, the Aleutian Islands and isolated islands off

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such as the Juan Fernández Islands. Islands with geological and historical ties to the Asian mainland (such as those in the Malay Archipelago) are rarely included in present definitions of Oceania, nor are non-tropical islands to the north of Hawaii. The 2004 book ''The Making of Anthropology: The Semiotics of Self and Other in the Western Tradition'', by Jacob Pandian and Susan Parman, states that "some exclude from Oceania the nontropical islands such as Ryukyu, the Aleutian islands and Japan, and the islands such as Formosa, Indonesia and the Philippines that are closely linked with mainland Asia. Others include Indonesia and the Philippines with the heartland of Oceania." Certain anthropological definitions restrict Oceania even further to only include islands which are culturally within Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Conversely,

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believe that the term ''Pacific Islands'' is much more synonymous with Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, and that Oceania, in its broadest sense, embraces all the areas of the Pacific which do not fall within Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

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and the

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categorize Oceania/the Pacific area as one of the seven major continental divisions of the world, and the two organizations consider it to politically encompass American Samoa, Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna and the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Since the 1950s, many (particularly in English-speaking countries) have viewed Australia as a continent-sized landmass, although they are still sometimes viewed as a Pacific Island, or as both a continent and a Pacific Island. Australia is a founding member of the Pacific Islands Forum, which is now recognized as the main governing body for the Oceania region. It functions as a trade bloc and deals with defense issues, unlike with the Pacific Community, which includes most of the same members. By 2021, the Pacific Islands Forum included all sovereign Pacific Island nations, such as Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji and Tonga, in addition to dependencies of other nations, such as American Samoa, French Polynesia and Guam. Islands which have been fully integrated into other nations, including Easter Island (Chile) and Hawaii (United States), have also shown interest in joining. Tony deBrum, Foreign Minister for the Marshall Islands, stated in 2014, "Not only is Australia our big brother down south, Australia is a member of the Pacific Islands Forum and Australia is a Pacific island, a big island, but a Pacific island." Japan and certain nations of the Malay Archipelago (including East Timor, Indonesia and the Philippines) have representation in the Pacific Islands Forum, but none are full members. The nations of the Malay Archipelago have their own regional governing organization called ASEAN, which includes mainland Southeast Asian nations such as

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. In July 2019, at the inaugural Indonesian Exposition held in

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, Indonesia launched its 'Pacific Elevation' program, which would encompass a new era of elevated engagement with the region, with the country also using the event to lay claim that Indonesia is culturally and ethnically linked to the Pacific islands. The event was attended by dignitaries from Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific island countries.

List of the largest Pacific islands

Islands of the Pacific Ocean proper, with an area larger than 10,000 km².

By continent

Antarctica

List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. * Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the A ...

Asia

* List of islands of Asia ** List of islands of China ** Japanese Archipelago of 6,852 islands ***

List of islands of Japan Japan is an island country of 14,125 islands, of which approximately 260 are inhabited. Japan is the third-largest island country in the world, behind Indonesia and Madagascar. Japan is also the List of island countries#Sovereign states, second- ...

List of islands of Indonesia The islands of Indonesia, also known as the Indonesian Archipelago () or Nusantara, may refer either to the islands composing the country of Indonesia or to the geographical groups which include its islands. Indonesia is the world's largest a ...

** List of islands of North Korea ** List of islands of the Philippines ** List of islands of Russia ** List of islands of South Korea ** List of islands of Vietnam

North America

* Central American Pacific Islands * List of islands of North America ** List of islands of Canada, section British Columbia ** List of islands of Mexico ** List of islands of the United States

Oceania

List of islands of Vanuatu This is a list of islands of Vanuatu by provinces of Vanuatu, province, largely from north to south, subdivided by archipelago when appropriate. Vanuatu is usually said to contain 83 islands. Islands *Torba Province **Torres Islands ***Hiw (i ...

South America

* List of islands of South America ** List of islands of Chile **

List of islands of Colombia The following are lists of the islands of South America by country. Argentina Atlantic Ocean islands *''Isla Apipé'' *''Isla Bermejo'' *''Isla de los Estados'' *''Isla de San Martín (Argentina), Isla de San Martín'' *''Isla del Cerrito'' * ...

** List of islands of Ecuador ** List of islands of Peru

By country

American Samoa

** Aunuu ** Ofu-Olosega ** Rose Atoll ** Swains Island (Olosenga, Olohega) (Disputed) **

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** Tutuila

Australia

* List of islands of Australia, including: ** Coral Sea Islands *** Willis Island **

** Norfolk Island ** Torres Strait Islands

Brunei

* List of islands of Brunei

Canada

* List of islands of British Columbia, many islands including: ** Haida Gwaii, some 400 islands near Alaska *** Graham Island, the main northern island ***

Moresby Island Moresby Island () is a large island () that forms part of the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia, Canada, located at It is separated by the narrow Skidegate Channel from the other princip ...

, the main southern island **

Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are of land. The island is the largest ...

, Canada's largest Pacific island *** Gulf Islands, numerous islands off the southeast coast of V.I. near the U.S. San Juan Islands

Chile

* Chiloé Island * Desventuradas Islands * Easter Island/Rapa Nui * Isla Salas y Gómez *

China

* List of islands of China

Colombia

* Gorgona Island * Malpelo Island

Cook Islands

* Aitutaki * Atiu * Pamati (Palmerston) * Mangaia * Manihiki (Humphrey) * Manuae (Hervey) * Mauke (Parry) *

Mitiaro Mitiʻāro, the fourth island in the Cook Islands group, is of volcano, volcanic origin. Standing in water deep it is across at its widest point. Geography Mitiaro, also known as Nukuroa, is part of the Nga-Pu-Toru island group formerly, a vol ...

(Nukuroa) * Nassau * Pukapuka (Danger) * Rakahanga (Reirson) * Rarotonga * Suwarrow (Anchorage) * Takutea * Tongareva (Penrhyn)

Costa Rica

Ecuador

* Galapagos Islands * Puná Island

Fiji

* Principal islands: ** Viti Levu ** Vanua Levu * Significant outliers: ** Conway Reef ** Kadavu Island ** Taveuni ** Rotuma Island * Archipelagos: ** Kadavu Group ** Lau Islands ** Lomaiviti Islands ** Mamanuca Islands ** Moala Islands ** Ringgold Isles ** Rotuma Group ** Vanua Levu Group ** Viti Levu Group ** Yasawa Islands

France

* Clipperton Island

French Polynesia

(Autonomous Overseas Territory of France) **

*** Tubuai ** Society Islands *** Windward Islands **** Moorea ****

Tahiti Tahiti (; Tahitian language, Tahitian , ; ) is the largest island of the Windward Islands (Society Islands), Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is located in the central part of t ...

**** Tetiaroa **** Maiao **** Mehetia ***

Leeward Islands The Leeward Islands () are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico, they extend southeast to Guadeloupe and its dependencies. In Engl ...

****

Bora Bora Bora Bora (French language, French: ''Bora-Bora''; Tahitian language, Tahitian: ''Pora Pora'') is an island group in the Leeward Islands (Society Islands), Leeward Islands in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific. The Leeward Islands comprise the we ...

**** Huahine **** Maupiti **** Raiatea and Tahaa **** Tupai **** Mopelia (Maupihaa) **** Manuae (Scilly Atoll) **** Motu One (Bellinghausen) ** Marquesas *** Fatu Hiva *** Hiva Oa *** Euba *** Nuku Hiva *** Tahuata *** Ua Huka Pen *** Ua Pou ** Tuamotus *** Rangiroa ***

Fakarava Fakarava, Havaiki-te-araro, Havai'i or Farea is an atoll in the west of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is the second largest of the Tuamotu atolls. The nearest land is Toau, a coral atoll which lies to the northwest. The atoll is ro ...

*** Moruroa *** Fangataufa **

Gambier Islands The Gambier Islands ( or ) are an archipelago in French Polynesia, located at the southeast terminus of the Tuamotu archipelago. They cover an area of , and are made up of the Mangareva Islands, a group of high islands remnants of a caldera alo ...

***

Mangareva Mangareva is the central and largest island of the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. It is surrounded by smaller islands: Taravai in the southwest, Aukena and Akamaru in the southeast, and islands in the north. Mangareva has a permanent p ...

*** Helena Island

Guam

* Guam *

Hong Kong

* List of islands of Hong Kong ** Hong Kong Island ** Lantau

Indonesia

* Western New Guinea *

Natuna Islands Natuna Regency is an islands regency located in the northernmost part of the Province of Riau Islands, Indonesia. It contains at least 154 islands, of which 127 of them are reported as uninhabited. This archipelago, with a land area of 1,978.4 ...

Japan

, including: * The five main islands: **

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- the northernmost and second largest main island. **

Honshu , historically known as , is the largest of the four main islands of Japan. It lies between the Pacific Ocean (east) and the Sea of Japan (west). It is the list of islands by area, seventh-largest island in the world, and the list of islands by ...

- the largest and most populous island; home of the capital

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. **

Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's Japanese archipelago, four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa Island, Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu (''Nansei'') Ryukyu Islands, Islands ...

- the third largest main island and closest to the Asian continent. **

Shikoku is the smallest of the List of islands of Japan#Main islands, four main islands of Japan. It is long and between at its widest. It has a population of 3.8 million, the least populated of Japan's four main islands. It is south of Honshu ...

- the second smallest main island after Okinawa; between Honshu and Kyushu **

Okinawa Island , officially , is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu (''Nansei'') Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region. It is the smallest and least populated of the five Japanese archipelago, main islands of Japan. The island is ...

- the smallest and southernmost of the main islands * Other notable islands: ** Marcus Island ** Okinotori Islands

Kiribati

* List of islands of Kiribati: ** Caroline Island ** Flint Island ** Gilbert Islands ** Line Islands (8 of 11) *** Kiritimati/Christmas Island ** Malden Island **

** Starbuck Island ** Tabuaeran/Fanning Island ** Teraina/Washington Island ** Vostok Island

Macau

* List of islands of Macau

Malaysia

* Sipadan

Marshall Islands

** Bikini ** Enewetak ** Kwajalein ** Rongelap **

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Mexico

* Cedros Island *

Tiburón Island Tiburón Island is the largest island in the Gulf of California and the largest island in Mexico, with an area of . It is uninhabited and it was made a nature reserve in 1963 by President Adolfo López Mateos. Etymology is Spanish language, Spa ...

* Revillagigedo Islands * Rocas Alijos * Guadalupe Island

Micronesia

Islands of

Caroline Islands The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically, they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) in the cen ...

* Pohnpei * Yap ** Ulithi * Chuuk ** Puluwat *

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Nauru

* Nauru, a country and single island

New Caledonia

( special collectivity of France) ** Grande Terre (New Caledonia) ** Chesterfield Islands ** Ilots du Mouillage *** Isle of Pines *** Belep Islands ***

** Loyalty Islands *** Bagao *** Lifou Island *** Maré Island *** Ouvéa Island *** Tiga Island ** Matthew Island and Hunter Island, administered by France as part of New Caledonia but also claimed by Vanuatu

New Zealand

* Islands of New Zealand, around 600 islands including: ** Auckland Islands **

Chatham Islands The Chatham Islands ( ; Moriori language, Moriori: , 'Misty Sun'; ) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island, administered as part of New Zealand, and consisting of about 10 islands within an approxima ...

***

Chatham Island Chatham Island ( ) ( Moriori: , 'Misty Sun'; ) is the largest island of the Chatham Islands group, in the south Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is said to be "halfway between the equator and the pole, a ...

*** Pitt Island ** d'Urville Island ** Great Barrier Island ** Kapiti Island ** Kermadec Islands *** Macauley Island *** Raoul Island **

North Island The North Island ( , 'the fish of Māui', historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait. With an area of , it is the List ...

South Island The South Island ( , 'the waters of Pounamu, Greenstone') is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand by surface area, the others being the smaller but more populous North Island and Stewart Island. It is bordered to the north by ...

** Stewart Island / Rakiura ** Waiheke Island

Niue

* Niue, a country and single island

Northern Mariana Islands

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** Saipan ** Rota ** Tinian ** Maug ** Pagan Island ** Alamagan ** Farallon de Pajaros

Palau

has over 250 islands, including: *

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* Babeldaob *

* Kayangel * Ngerekebesang Island * Oreor * Peleliu * Southwest Islands

Panama

* Pearl Islands

Papua New Guinea

* List of islands of Papua New Guinea **

, eastern half ** Bismarck Archipelago *** Admiralty Islands **** Manus Island *** Karkar Island *** New Britain *** New Ireland *** Saint Matthias Group ** Solomon Islands archipelago (northern part) *** Bougainville *** Buka Island ** Trobriand Islands *** Kiriwina ** Woodlark Island ** D'Entrecasteaux Islands *** Fergusson Island *** Goodenough Island *** Normanby Island (Papua New Guinea) ** Louisiade Archipelago *** Misima Island *** Tagula Island or Sudest Island *** Rossel Island *** Samarai ** Daru Island ** Kiwai Island

Philippines

* List of islands of the Philippines, over 7600 islands including: ** Spratly Islands (disputed) ** Scarborough Shoal (disputed)

Pitcairn Islands

* Pitcairn Islands, four islands: ** Pitcairn Island ** Henderson Island ** Oeno Island ** Ducie Island

Russia

* List of islands of Russia ** Kuril Islands ** Sakhalin

Samoa

* List of islands of Samoa: **

(western part of the Samoa Islands) *** Savai'i *** Upolu *** Apolima *** Manono *** Nuutele

Singapore

* Pedra Branca

Solomon Islands

* Islands of the Solomon Islands ** Bellona ** Choiseul ** Florida Island **

Guadalcanal Guadalcanal (; indigenous name: ''Isatabu'') is the principal island in Guadalcanal Province of Solomon Islands, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, northeast of Australia. It is the largest island in the Solomons by area and the second- ...

** Malaita ** Maramasike ** New Georgia Islands ** Rennell **

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** San Cristobal ** Santa Cruz Islands ** Santa Isabel ** Shortland Islands ** Sikaiana (Stewart Islands) ** Tulagi ** Ulawa ** Uki

Taiwan

* List of islands of Taiwan, 166 islands including: **

, the main island with over 99% of the country's total area

Tokelau

* List of islands of Tokelau **

(mostly autonomous), three coral atolls with about 25 islands combined, including: *** Olohega (Swains Island), administered by the United States as part of American Samoa, but claimed by Tokelau due to geography, history and language

Tonga

* List of islands in Tonga; in north to south order: ** Niuafoou ** Niuatoputapu (Keppel's Island) ** Vavau ** Kao ** Tofua ** Haapai **

Tongatapu Tongatapu is the main island of Tonga and the site of its capital, Nukuʻalofa, Nukualofa. It is located in Tonga's southern island group, to which it gives its name, and is the country's most populous island, with 74,611 residents (2016), 70.5% o ...

** Eua

Tuvalu

Islands of Tuvalu Tuvalu consists of nine separate islands: six atolls and three reef islands. An atoll typically consists of several motus: Tuvalu has a total of 124 islands and islets. Each island is surrounded by a coral reef. The soils of Tuvalu's islands are ...

Funafuti Funafuti is an atoll, comprising numerous islets, that serves as the capital of Tuvalu. As of the 2017 census, it has a population of 6,320 people. More people live in Funafuti than the rest of Tuvalu combined, with it containing approximately 6 ...

(atoll of at least 30 islands) ** Nanumanga (or ''Nanumaga'') ** Nanumea (atoll of at least 6 islands) ** Niulakita ** Niutao ** Nui (atoll of at least 21 islands) ** Nukufetau (atoll of at least 33 islands) ** Nukulaelae (atoll of at least 15 islands) ** Vaitupu (atoll of at least 9 islands)

United States

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, many islands including: ** Aleutian Islands ** Alexander Archipelago ** Nunivak Island ** St. Lawrence Island * List of islands of California **

Channel Islands The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Jersey, Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, ...

* Hawaiian Islands, many islands and islets including: **

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

** Kahoolawe ** Kauai ** Ka'ula ** Lanai **

Maui Maui (; Hawaiian language, Hawaiian: ) is the second largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2). It is the List of islands of the United States by area, 17th-largest in the United States. Maui is one of ...

** Molokai ** Niihau ** Oahu ** Northwestern Hawaiian Islands *** Kure *** Nihoa *** Necker *** French Frigate Shoals *** Gardner Pinnacles *** Maro Reef *** Laysan *** Lisianski *** Pearl and Hermes Reef * List of islands of Oregon ** Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge *

, eight small island groups between Hawaii and the Philippines (e.g.

, Midway Atoll, Wake Atoll) * List of islands of Washington state ** Islands of Puget Sound ** San Juan Islands

Vanuatu

, some 83 islands including (north to south approximately): ** Torres Islands ** Banks Islands ** Espiritu Santo ** Malakula ** Ambrym ** Paama ** Epi ** Shepherd Islands **

Efate Efate (), also known as Île Vate (), is an island in the Pacific Ocean which is part of the Shefa Province in Vanuatu. Geography It is the most populous (approx. 66,000) island in Vanuatu. Efate's land area of makes it Vanuatu's third larg ...

, home of the national capital Port Vila ** Lelepa ** Erromango ** Tanna * Disputed: ** Matthew Island and Hunter Island, administered by France as part of New Caledonia but also claimed by Vanuatu

Wallis and Futuna

** Alofi ** Futuna ** Wallis (Uvea)

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