We have put together the largest Islands on the Earth and their respective areas in square mile and square kilometers.
Although Australia could also be considered an island by definition, which is a piece of land surrounded by water, due to its vast size of 7,617,930 square kilometers it is more convincingly categorized as a continent. Thus Australia is exempted from the list of top 10 biggest islands around the world.
1. Greenland also known as Kalaatdlit Nunaat
840,004 square miles (2,175,600 sq Km)
2. New Guinea in Indonesia
303,381 square miles (785,753 sq Km)3. Borneo in Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei
288,869 square miles (748,168 sq Km)4. Madagascar
226,917 square miles (587,713 sq Km)
5. Baffin Island in Canada
194,574 square miles (503,944 sq Km)6. Sumatra Island in Indonesia
171,068 square miles (443,065 sq Km)7. Honshu Island in Japan
87,805 square miles (227,413 sq Km)
8. Great Britain
84,200 square miles (218,077 sq Km)9. Victoria Island in Canada
83,897 square miles (217,292 sq Km)
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