List of archipelagos by number of islands

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Location (total number of islands)	Name of the archipelagos	Number of islands, islets, reefs, coral reefs and cays
Finland	Archipelago Sea	over 40,000^[1]
Canada	Canadian Arctic Archipelago	36,563
Stockholm archipelago, Sweden (34,316^[2])	Stockholm archipelago	28,945
	Södermanland archipelago	5,371
Malay Archipelago (25,000 – 30,000)	Indonesian Archipelago	17,508 – 18,306^[3]
	Philippine Archipelago	7,107
Swedish East Coast Archipelago (21,628^[4])	Småland archipelago	12,740
	Östergötland archipelago	8,888
Sweden	Öregrund archipelago	9,722
Caribbean Islands 7,000^[5]	Bahamas	3,200
Japanese archipelago 6,852^[6]	Seto Inland Sea	3,000
Finland	Kvarken Archipelago	6,500
British Isles	British Isles	6,289
China (5,000)	Zhoushan Archipelago	1,390 (islands)
Korea	Korean Peninsula	3,579
Queensland, Australia	Great Barrier Reef	2,900 (reefs), 900 (islands)
Chile	Chile	2,324
Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam	Ha Long Bay	1,960 – 2,000
Saint Lawrence River, Canada–United States border	Thousand Islands	1,864
Thailand	Thailand	1,430
Croatia	Dalmatia	1,200
Greece	Greece	1,200 – 6,000
Maldives	Maldive Islands	1,192 (coral islands)
New Zealand	New Zealand Archipelago	600
Estonia	West Estonian archipelago	500

References[edit]

^ Nautical chart: International no. 1205, SE61, Baltic Sea, North, Sea of Åland.
^ "Swedish islands" (PDF). SCB, The Swedish Statistics Agency. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
^ Central Intelligence Agency. (2009-10-28). "East & Southeast Asia :: Philippines". The World Factbook. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
^ "Swedish islands" (PDF). SCB, The Swedish Statistics Agency. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
^ http://botany.si.edu/projects/cpd/ma/ma-carib.htm
^ "Facts and Figures of Japan 2007 01: Land" (PDF). Foreign Press Center Japan. Retrieved 2010-08-20.