List of archipelagos by number of islands

List of archipelagos by number of islands:

Name	Number of islands	Country
Archipelago Sea (Åland Archipelago)	Over 50,000 [1]	Finland
Canadian Arctic Archipelago	36,563 [2]	Canada
Stockholm Archipelago	30,000 [3]	Sweden
Thirty Thousand Islands	Around 30,000 [4]	Canada
Malay Archipelago	Around 25,000 [1]	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Timor-Leste
Lake of the Woods Islands	14,632 [5]	Canada and United States
Indonesian Archipelago	13,558 [6]	Indonesia
Småland archipelago	12,740[ citation needed ]	Sweden
Öregrund archipelago	9,722 [7]	Sweden
Östergötland archipelago	8,888 [7]	Sweden
Philippine Archipelago	7,641 [8] [9]	Philippines
Japanese archipelago	6,852 [10]	Japan
Kvarken Archipelago	5,600 [11]	Finland
Södermanland archipelago	5,371 [7]	Sweden
British Isles	4,400 [12]	Ireland and United Kingdom
Blekinge archipelago	2,875[ citation needed ]	Sweden
Alexander Archipelago	Over 2,000 [13]	United States
Thousand Islands	1,864 [14]	Canada and United States
Ha Long Bay	Over 1,600 [15]	Vietnam
Zhoushan archipelago	1,390 [16]	China
Great Barrier Reef	Over 900 [17]	Australia
Lucayan Archipelago	740 [18]	The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom)
Seto Inland Sea	Over 700 [19]	Japan
Dalmatia	1,244–1246 [20]	Croatia
Maldive Islands	1,190 [21]	Maldives
West Estonian archipelago	Almost 900 [22]	Estonia
Mergui Archipelago	Around 800 [23]	Myanmar
Falkland Islands	780 [24]	Falkland Islands (United Kingdom)
New Zealand archipelago	Over 600 [25]	New Zealand
Recherche Archipelago	Around 105 [26]	Australia

See also

• Islands portal
• Lists portal

• List of archipelagos
• List of countries by number of islands
• Archipelagic state

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