🏝️ Countries by Number of Islands (2025)
1. 🇸🇪 Sweden – 267,570
2. 🇳🇴 Norway – 239,057
3. 🇫🇮 Finland – 178,947
4. 🇨🇦 Canada – 52,455
5. 🇨🇱 Chile – 43,471
6. 🇮🇩 Indonesia – 17,508
7. 🇯🇵 Japan – 14,125
8. 🇨🇳 China – 7,226
9. 🇵🇭 Philippines – 7,641
10. 🇦🇺 Australia – 8,222
11. 🇰🇷 South Korea – 3,358
12. 🇪🇪 Estonia – 2,355
13. 🇮🇸 Iceland – 2,000
14. 🇫🇷 France – 1,900
15. 🇮🇳 India – 1,382
16. 🇲🇽 Mexico – 1,356
17. 🇭🇷 Croatia – 1,246
18. 🇲🇻 Maldives – 1,192
19. 🇲🇾 Malaysia – 878
20. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – 790
21. 🇮🇹 Italy – 808
22. 🇩🇰 Denmark – 406
23. 🇧🇷 Brazil – 1,200
24. 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands – 992
Source:
- World Population Review (2025)
- Statista
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Instead, they rewired it. Now the caterpillar stands guard over their vulnerable cocoons like a zombified sentinel, twitching violently at any threat. It doesn’t eat. It doesn’t flee. It just protects the very parasites that destroyed it from within.
We live exactly the same reality.
