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This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
Christmas Island: One main island Oceanic Australia: 135 52 1,496 11.1 29 Indian Ocean, Australasia Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Archipelago Oceanic Australia: 14 5.4 596 42.6 110 Indian Ocean, Australasia Curaçao: One main island (central island of the ABC Islands) Continental shelf Netherlands: 444 171 145,834 328 850 Caribbean Sea, Lesser Antilles
One archipelago with two main islands Oceanic 110,000 344 319.8 Caribbean Sea Windward Islands Indonesia: One archipelago with four islands (Borneo, Sebatik, New Guinea, and Timor) shared with four other countries (Brunei, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste). Various [note 3] 270,203,917 1,904,569 124.7 World Ocean Maritime Southeast Asia
This is a list of countries by number of islands, with figures given for the numbers of islands within their territories. In some cases, this figure is approximate and may vary slightly between sources depending on which islands are counted. The criteria for inclusion appear to differ considerably between the countries so they are not necessarily directly comparable. Different languages use ...
The island of Borneo is divided administratively by three countries. The independent sultanate of Brunei (main part and eastern exclave of Temburong) The Indonesian provinces of East, South, West, North and Central Kalimantan, in Kalimantan; The East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, as well as the Federal Territory of Labuan (on offshore ...
An island country, island state, or island nation is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands. [ citation needed ] Approximately 25% of all independent countries are island countries. [ 1 ]
The metropolitan territory of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland form the three constituent countries of the Kingdom. [v] The Kingdom of Denmark as a whole is a member of the EU, but EU law (in most cases) does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland. See Greenland and the European Union, and Faroe Islands and the European Union. [20 ...
Category: Islands of Asia by country. ... Islands of Singapore (3 C, 34 P) Islands of South Korea (8 C) Islands of Sri Lanka (2 C, 6 P) Islands of Syria (1 C, 2 P) T.