The Largest Islands in the World

The biggest islands, by land area.

The largest islands on Earth by land area, led by Greenland and the great islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

#	Place	Area (sq mi)
1	Greenland The world's largest island, a vast ice-sheet realm in the Arctic	836,330 sq mi 2,166,086 km²
2	New Guinea The world's second-largest island, a wall of rainforest and glaciated peaks	303,381 sq mi 785,753 km²
3	Borneo The world's third-largest island, shared by three nations and ancient rainforest	287,001 sq mi 743,330 km²
4	Sumatra A vast volcanic island anchoring western Indonesia	182,812 sq mi 473,481 km²
5	Honshu Japan's main island, heartland of a nation and home to Tokyo	87,992 sq mi 227,898 km²
6	Great Britain Europe's largest island, cradle of an empire and the industrial age	80,823 sq mi 209,331 km²
7	Java The world's most populous island, the crowded core of Indonesia	51,007 sq mi 132,107 km²
8	Tasmania Australia's wild island state, a refuge of ancient forests and rare creatures	24,911 sq mi 64,519 km²
9	Sicily The largest island in the Mediterranean, crossroads of civilisations	9,927 sq mi 25,711 km²
10	Hawaiian Islands A volcanic chain in the central Pacific, the most isolated archipelago on Earth	6,423 sq mi 16,636 km²
11	Galapagos Islands The Pacific archipelago that inspired the theory of evolution	3,042 sq mi 7,880 km²
12	Bali Indonesia's Island of the Gods, a Hindu enclave of temples and terraces	2,232 sq mi 5,780 km²

Figures are drawn from standard government and reference sources and shown in both imperial and metric units. See each entry for full details and citations. Browse all guides or open the explore map.