Islands of the world quiz
Checked on 12 November 2026
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Which is the largest island in the world (not counting Australia, a continent)?
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The answer is Greenland.
Greenland is the world's largest island, and mainland Australia is more than three times its size.
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Greenland is part of the realm of which European country?
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The answer is Denmark.
Greenland has its own extensive local government but is part of the Realm of Denmark.
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What do we call a group of islands closely scattered in a body of water?
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The answer is Archipelago.
An archipelago is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, in an ocean, a sea or even a lake.
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The island of Tasmania is a state of which country?
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The answer is Australia.
Tasmania is an island state of Australia, lying south of the Australian mainland.
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Tokyo, the capital of Japan, lies on which island?
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The answer is Honshu.
Tokyo sits on Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands and home to most of its people.
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Which is the northernmost of Japan's four main islands?
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The answer is Hokkaido.
Japan's four large islands run from Hokkaido in the far north through Honshu and Shikoku to Kyushu in the south.
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The Hawaiian Islands formed in the middle of a plate over what kind of geological feature?
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The answer is A hot spot.
The Hawaiian Islands keep forming over a hot spot that stays put while the Pacific plate moves northwest.
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Which is the largest archipelago in the world by area?
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The answer is Malay Archipelago.
The Malay Archipelago, between the Pacific and Indian oceans, has more than 25,000 islands, including those of Indonesia and Malaysia.
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The Greek island group known as the Cyclades lies in which sea?
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The answer is Aegean Sea.
The Cyclades are a closely spaced group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
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The Archipelago Sea, with tens of thousands of small islands, lies in the waters of which country?
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The answer is Finland.
The Archipelago Sea is part of the Baltic Sea within Finnish waters, and its islands are still slowly rising since the last ice age.