| This in an interesting idea for a quiz, but it contains a number of major flaws. There is no source. There are no guidance notes. It appears that countries where some of the territory is located on a continent are excluded, but this should therefore exclude Australia which has been included. Are countries located on islands shared with other nations to be included (UK, Ireland, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia etc)? Are the islands included all inhabited? What constitutes an island? Is it anything above high, mean or low tide level? The figures will vary enormously dependant on the criteria used. There are many omissions. I am fairly confident that nearly every “island nation” will have more than four inhabited or uninhabited islands. I am also certain than there are many nations that have four or more inhabited islands, but which have been omitted from the list. These definitely include: Bahrain; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Haiti; Mauritius; St Vincent and the Grenadines; Singapore; Sri Lanka and Taiwan. No doubt there are a number of others. Interestingly the total of 17,508 islands shown for Indonesia includes uninhabited islands. Only about 6,000 Indonesian islands are inhabited. On this basis, the quiz has omitted over half the answers! More research required. |
Island Countries
Island Possessions
'A'-Less Countries
