Who controls the most islands?

“Sweden has 267,570 islands, about 24,000 of which are open to the public. Though Sweden is the country with the most islands in the world, less than 1,000 of them are inhabited,” World Atlas said. Norway is close behind in second place with 239,057 counted islands.



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Philippines, island country of Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. It is an archipelago consisting of more than 7,000 islands and islets lying about 500 miles (800 km) off the coast of Vietnam. Manila is the capital, but nearby Quezon City is the country's most-populous city.

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Maine and Alaska are the U.S. states with the most islands. Maine has 3166 coastal islands, a number that includes the largest islands, starting with Mount Desert Island (108 sq mi) and the smallest islets. Alaska has approximately 2,670 named islands.

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Our planet hosts around 900,000 officially declared islands and probably thousands of others that we know little about. There are 18,617 claimed islands located in the United States. The United States is fifth in regards to its number of islands, after Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Canada.

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Netherlands. In 1969, the Flevopolder in the Netherlands was finished, as part of the Zuiderzee Works. It has a total land surface of 970 km2, which makes it by far the largest artificial island by land reclamation in the world. The island consists of two polders, Eastern Flevoland and Southern Flevoland.

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There are also artificial islands (man-made islands). There are about 900,000 official islands in the world. This number consists of all the officially-reported islands of each country.

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Same as taxes for land not surrounded by water. There's this myth that a ring of water has legal superpowers. Residents of islands still pay income, business, sales, and property taxes like any other resident.

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Five territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) are permanently inhabited, unincorporated territories; the other nine are small islands, atolls, and reefs with no native (or permanent) population.

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But unlike Hawaii, Puerto Rico is not a state. That means it does not have voting power in Congress and its citizens can't vote for the U.S. president — but they can vote in party primaries. Puerto Rico is self-governed through a local constitution that was approved by Congress in 1952.

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