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Can you name the world's largest islands? Enter a island in the box below Correctly named islands will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: davidr NOTE: For the purposes of this quiz we are considering Australia to be a continental landmass. You have 7 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 1853 TV Shows (U.S.) 1498 Broadway Opening Lines 1456 You Do Know Jack 660 Same Last Name 562 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 559 And more...
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Rank	Island	Area (thousand km²)
1.		2,131
2.		786
3.		748
4.		588
5.		507
6.		443
7.		226
8.		217
9.		209
10.		196
11.		181
12.		146
13.		139

Rank	Island	Area (thousand km²)
14.		112
15.		110
16.		109
17.		106
18.		103
19.		98
20.		82
21.		79
22.		74
23.		72
24.		70
25.		65

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	ronnymexico:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 08:44 GMT	25 points
	I'm okay with Australia not being here, it's explained in the instructions and most lists don't seem to view Australia as a true island anyway.

	Hal_10000:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 09:00 GMT	18 points
	A tough one, having to know the actual island names rather than just countries. I like

	Kicking222:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 09:06 GMT	5 points
	Dear god, so hard... I got ten, and I haven't heard of many of the other 15. Still glad I did it, though- 1 AM and I've already learned something today!

	springmom:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 09:25 GMT	3 points
	Um, chillicothe, if you would go look at a map of the ones you named, their biggest islands ARE on here. Learn what they are.....I got them, but maybe it helps that I teach history and geography.

	smacaskill:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 09:26 GMT	6 points
	@ chillcothe20: you need to name the island, not the country

Can you name the world's largest islands? Enter a island in the box below Correctly named islands will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order This game was contributed by Sporcle user: davidr NOTE: For the purposes of this quiz we are considering Australia to be a continental landmass. You have 7 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 1853 TV Shows (U.S.) 1498 Broadway Opening Lines 1456 You Do Know Jack 660 Same Last Name 562 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 559 And more...
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	david:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 09:26 GMT	3 points
	I got 20 on the first try, though I do have to say my first two guesses were Long Island and Vancouver Island, which it turns out are way below the top 25. I was sorely mistaken. Can't believe I missed Newfoundland. It's a fun one, this.

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	carolina:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 09:27 GMT	9 points
	This quiz is fantastic, thank you!

	davidr:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 10:16 GMT	4 points
	@springmom: As stated at the top of the page, we're considering Australia to be a continental landmass here and, as you say, this is the majority view. That said, the number of continents is variable. For example, in many countries `America' is considered to be a single continent.

	jesus:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 12:40 GMT	4 points
	How have more people got Ireland than Great Britain. That is surprising.

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	C_W_Browne:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 15:03 GMT	7 points
	A lot of people might be more used to referring to GB as the U.K : that's is probably why Mr hyphen

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	weizenugb:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 16:01 GMT	10 points
	Excellent quiz, davidr.

	davebesag:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 16:14 GMT	-1 points
	GB/UK is an easy mistake to make as I started by doing that. Missed the rule about Australia! Still got 11 though.

	Statto:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 16:18 GMT	1 point
	@Bray - technically the largest islands are the answers in this quiz. By your thinking everybody lives on an island. In fact the creation of the Suez Canal splits Africa from Asia. If Australia was split into several countries fewer people would think of it as an island. Anyway 19/25 - couldn't think of any names of Filipino Islands, forget Newfoundland & that Cuba isn't the only largish island in the Caribbean.

	jesus:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 16:21 GMT	5 points
	If someone has never seen one of these quizzes before then i accept they might not get the GB/UK thing. However, it seems for every geography quiz there is an argument about the subject so you think some of them would have caught on by now the difference between the two.

	Bray:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 16:28 GMT	3 points
	@Statto - I know the landmasses are not islands, I'm just saying that if you think broadly, they are pieces of land surrounded by water and therefore are islands. They aren't is all.

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	Bray:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 17:55 GMT	-3 points
	@Mr Badman Browne: hyphen = -, colon = :. :P

	jereboam:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 18:17 GMT	11 points
	I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but "UK" is short for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". That's the big island (Great Britain) on the Western side of the European landmass and the top bit of the somewhat smaller island (Ireland) just to the West of it.

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	Tim Allen:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 18:47 GMT	3 points
	There are 7 continents. Any assertion that there are less is semantics.

	mike:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 19:26 GMT	2 points
	Isn't Australasia the continent and Australia the country (therefore making it an island)? Otherwise what continent is New Zealand in?

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	SirZapdos:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 19:59 GMT	-3 points
	Maybe it's just me, but whenever I look at a map, Baffin Island looks much bigger than Madagascar. I find it hard to believe it is only the fifth largest island.

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	A_is_for_Addict:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 20:30 GMT	10 points
	The island of Ireland contains both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (part of the UK). Because something has a border doesn't stop it from becoming an island. By that logic New Guinea, Borneo, Hispaniola and arguably Great Britain would not count as islands either.

	jesus:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 20:34 GMT	13 points
	@SirZapdos: Thats because if you're looking on a European/African centred map the corners (i.e. Northwest Canada, North East Russia, the Pacific Isles and Oceania) are sretched to make it rectangular shaped and able to fit properly in an atlas

	Catherine_F:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 20:49 GMT	5 points
	Mike: that's why it says "continental landmass". Australia itself makes up the biggest part of it's continental plate. New Zealand is on the border of the next plate, and it's only really categorised as part of the Australasian continent because it's sort of close.

	Catherine_F:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 20:51 GMT	12 points
	Oh and kids: not everything you learnt in school was completely correct. Teachers and even textbook writers are fallible beings!

	A_is_for_Addict:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 20:56 GMT	12 points
	The Ural and Caucasus mountains and the Caspian, Mediterranean and Black seas and the Bosphorus Strait are widely accepted as the boundary between Europe and Asia. This leaves 5 transcontinental countries; Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. I think it's based on watershed boundaries rather than anything political. There are 7 continents in my opinion, however it can be argued that there are anywhere between 4 and 7.

	chrismet:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 22:08 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz. Got 21/25 but couldn't spell Sakhalin and Hokkaido correctly. Missed Sulawesi and Newfoundland (which I should have got).

	Joe_Ball:	Dec 6th, 2008 at 23:50 GMT	4 points
	@Statto: The Suez Canal isn't as deep as the continental plate. Africa and Asia are connected beneath the canal still. I spent a lot of time wondering why Africa doesn't just float away until I found that out! I got 12/25: only knew Hokkaido from the Japanese islands, and didn't know many of the Canadian or Indonesian islands by name.

	RKHMD:	Dec 7th, 2008 at 00:11 GMT	3 points
	According to fact monster, info please, and wikipedia, Tasmania (67,858) is larger than Sri Lanka (64,491). http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001783.html

	davidr:	Dec 7th, 2008 at 00:21 GMT	5 points
	@Josh Turner: `Ireland' is both a country and an island. For maximal confusion, the country doesn't take up the whole of the island. The country is often referred to as the Republic of Ireland, to lessen this confusion, though its official name is just `Ireland'.

	davidr:	Dec 7th, 2008 at 00:24 GMT	1 point
	@jereboam: That's been mentioned several times on other geography quizzes but thanks for making it clear here, too. :-)