What country has more than 17000 islands?

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia), is an island nation in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea.



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Borneo Island is the 3rd largest Island, and the only Island in the world comprises of three countries. The large part of this Island is with Indonesia, and the remaining part is with Brunei and Malaysia.

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Japan conducted a recount of its number of islands amid criticism that the figures weren't correct. Geographers are expected to add more than 7,000 islands to the count. The number of islands in Japan is expected to more than double after 7,000 new islands it didn't know existed were discovered. Well, kind of.

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On top of the list is Sweden, closely followed by Norway, which have over 200,000 islands each within their borders. “Sweden has 267,570 islands, about 24,000 of which are open to the public.

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The San Blas Islands of Panama is an archipelago comprising approximately 365 islands and cays, of which 49 are inhabited. They lie off the north coast of the Isthmus of Panama, east of the Panama Canal. A part of the comarca (district) Guna Yala along the Caribbean coast of Panama is home to the Kuna people.

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Indonesia is a nation of islands comprised of more than 13,000 islands around the equator. It encompasses the largest national territory and population in the ASEAN Member States (fourth largest population in the world), and has the world's largest Muslim population.

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