This is a list of islands of France, including both metropolitan France and French overseas islands. [1]
This is a list of islands of France, including both metropolitan France and French overseas islands. [1]
All French islands over 100 km2 (39 sq mi), ranked by decreasing area.
| Name | Location | Area (km2) | Area (sq mi) | |
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| 1 | Grande-Terre (mainland of New Caledonia) | New Caledonia | 16,372 | 6,321 |
| 2 | Corsica | Mediterranean Sea | 8,680 | 3,350 |
| 3 | Grande-Terre | Kerguelen Islands | 6,675 | 2,577 |
| 4 | Réunion | Réunion | 2,512 | 970 |
| 5 | Lifou | New Caledonia | 1,146 | 442 |
| 6 | Martinique | Martinique | 1,128 | 436 |
| 7 | Tahiti | French Polynesia | 1,036 | 400 |
| 8 | Basse-Terre | Guadeloupe | 848 | 327 |
| 9 | Maré | New Caledonia | 657 | 254 |
| 10 | Grande-Terre | Guadeloupe | 586 | 226 |
| 11 | Grande-Terre (mainland of Mayotte) | Mayotte | 363 | 140 |
| 12 | Nuku Hiva | French Polynesia | 345 | 133 |
| 13 | Hiva Oa | French Polynesia | 318 | 123 |
| 14 | Miquelon | Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | 214 | 83 |
| 15 | Île Foch | Kerguelen Islands | 206 | 80 |
| 16 | Oléron | Atlantic Ocean | 190 | 73 |
| 17 | Raiatea | French Polynesia | 173 | 67 |
| 18 | Marie-Galante | Guadeloupe | 158 | 61 |
| 19 | Île de la Possession | Crozet Islands | 153 | 59 |
| 20 | Île des Pins | New Caledonia | 141 | 54 |
| 21 | Ouvéa | New Caledonia | 133 | 51 |
| 22 | Moorea | French Polynesia | 132 | 51 |
| 23 | Île de l'Est | Crozet Islands | 122 | 47 |
| 24 | Ua Pou | French Polynesia | 112 | 43 |
List of the most populated French islands.
| Name | Location | Population | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Réunion | Indian Ocean | 802,000 (January 2008) |
| 2 | Martinique | Caribbean | 402,000 (January 2008) |
| 3 | Corsica | Mediterranean | 302,000 (January 2008) |
| 4 | New Caledonia's mainland (Grande-Terre) | Pacific | 205,939 (August 2009) |
| 5 | Guadeloupe's Grande-Terre | Caribbean | 197,603 (January 2006) |
| 6 | Guadeloupe's Basse-Terre | Caribbean | 186,661 (January 2006) |
| 7 | Tahiti | Pacific | 178,133 (August 2007) |
| 8 | Mayotte's mainland (Grande Terre) | Indian Ocean | 162,036 (July 2007) |
| 9 | Saint Martin (French part only) | Caribbean | 35,263 (January 2006) |
| 10 | Mayotte's Petite Terre (aka Pamanzi) | Indian Ocean | 24,416 (July 2007) |
| 11 | Oléron | Bay of Biscay | 20,991 (January 2006) |
| 12 | Île de Ré | Bay of Biscay | 17,640 (January 2006) |
| 13 | Moorea | Pacific | 16,191 (August 2007) |
| 14 | Raiatea | Pacific | 12,024 (August 2007) |
| 15 | Marie-Galante | Caribbean | 12,009 (January 2006) |
| 16 | Lifou | Pacific | 10,170 (August 2004) |
| 17 | Noirmoutier | Bay of Biscay | 9,813 (January 2006) |
| 18 | Wallis (aka Uvea) | Pacific | 9,227 (July 2008) |
| 19 | Bora Bora | Pacific | 8,927 (August 2007) |
| 20 | Saint Barthélemy | Caribbean | 8,450 (January 2007) |
List of inhabited islands of Atlantic France:
| Name | Region | Population | Area (km2) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oléron | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 21,871 | 174 |
| 2 | Île de Ré | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 17,723 | 85 |
| 3 | Noirmoutier | Pays de la Loire | 9,590 | 49 |
| 4 | Belle-Île-en-Mer | Brittany | 5,426 | 85.63 |
| 5 | Île d'Yeu | Pays de la Loire | 4,850 | 23.32 |
| 6 | Groix | Brittany | 2,234 | 14.82 |
| 7 | Ushant | Brittany | 833 | 15.58 |
| 8 | Île-Grande | Brittany | 800 | 1.70 |
| 9 | Île-aux-Moines | Brittany | 620 | 3.20 |
| 10 | Île de Batz | Brittany | 452 | 3.05 |
| 11 | Île-de-Bréhat | Brittany | 352 | 3.09 |
| 12 | Île de Sein | Brittany | 260 | 0.58 |
| 13 | Île-d'Arz | Brittany | 227 | 3.3 |
| 14 | Houat | Brittany | 216 | 2.91 |
| 15 | Île-d'Aix | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 207 | 1.19 |
| 16 | Molène | Brittany | 160 | 0.75 |
| 17 | Hœdic | Brittany | 94 | 2.08 |
| 18 | Grande-Île, Chausey | Normandy | 30 | 0.45 |
| 19 | Mont Saint-Michel | Normandy | 29 | 0.07 |
Pointe-à-Pitre is the second most populous commune of Guadeloupe. Guadeloupe is an overseas region and department of France located in the Lesser Antilles, of which it is a sous-préfecture, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre.
The Hochelaga Archipelago, also known as the Montreal Islands, is a group of 234 islands at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers in the southwestern part of the province of Quebec, Canada.
Guadeloupe is an archipelago of more than 12 islands, as well as islets and rocks situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. It is located in the Leeward Islands in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, a partly volcanic island arc. To the north lie Antigua and Barbuda and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat, with Dominica lying to the south.
The North and East Island group is a group of islands in the Blenheim Reef region of the Chagos Archipelago. The present-day atoll of Baxio Predassa forms the remnant of the group. The group consists of about thirty-five islands, of which thirty-two are submerged. The main islands are as follows:
The Îles des Saintes, also known as Les Saintes, is a group of small islands in the archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France. It is part of the Canton of Trois-Rivières and is divided into two communes: Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas. It is in the arrondissement of Basse-Terre and also in Guadeloupe's 4th constituency.
Terre-de-Bas Island is an island in the Îles des Saintes archipelago, in the Lesser Antilles.
Terre-de-Haut is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, including Terre-de-Haut Island and a few other small uninhabited islands of the archipelago. It is the most populous island of the archipelago of Les Saintes. The Fort Napoléon is located in this commune.
Terre-de-Haut Island is the easternmost island in the Îles des Saintes, part of the archipelago of Guadeloupe. Like name of neighboring Terre-de-Bas Island, name Terre-de-Haut comes from the maritime vocabulary, which called the islands exposed to the "highland" winds and those protected from the wind, "lowlands".
Articles related to the French overseas department of Guadeloupe include:
Articles related to the French overseas department of Martinique include:
Îlet à Cabrit, officially French: îlet à Cabrit des Saintes, is an island in the Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe, the Lesser Antilles. It belongs to the commune of Terre-de-Haut.
The communal section is the smallest administrative division in Haiti. The 144 communes are further divided into 571 communal sections.
Gambier is a commune of French Polynesia in the administrative subdivision of the Tuamotu-Gambier Islands. The commune includes the Gambier Islands as well as several atolls in the Tuamotu Archipelago. All the Tuamotu atolls belonging to the commune are uninhabited except for Marutea Sud, and are sometimes mistakenly included among the Gambier Islands themselves. The commune population was 1,570 at the 2022 census. Its total land area is 45.97 km2.
The Kerguelen Islands, an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, were discovered uninhabited on February 12, 1772 by Breton navigator Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec, and have remained without a permanent population ever since. The only residents were during an attempt to set up a farm, a few occasional occupations for whaling activities, and since the 1950s, a French scientific presence. Its toponymy was thus given ex nihilo, by the various explorers, whalers and sealers who frequented its waters and anchorages, and then in the 20th century, once French possession of the archipelago had been reaffirmed, by a few French institutions.
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