List of archipelagos by number of islands From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of archipelagos by number of islands: More information Name, Number of islands ... NameNumber of islands Country Archipelago Sea (Turku Archipelago)Over 50,000[1] Finland Canadian Arctic Archipelago36,563[2] Canada Stockholm Archipelago 30,000[3] Sweden Thirty Thousand IslandsAround 30,000[4] Canada Malay Archipelago Around 25,000[1] Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Timor-Leste Lake of the Woods Islands14,632[5] Canada and United States Indonesian Archipelago 13,558[6] Indonesia Småland archipelago 12,740[citation needed] Sweden Öregrund archipelago9,722[7] Sweden Östergötland archipelago8,888[7] Sweden Philippine Archipelago7,641[8][9] Philippines Japanese archipelago 6,852[10] Japan Kvarken Archipelago5,600[11] Finland Södermanland archipelago5,371[7] Sweden British Isles4,400[12] Ireland and United Kingdom Blekinge archipelago 2,875[citation needed] Sweden Alexander Archipelago Over 2,000[13] United States Thousand Islands 1,864[14] Canada and United States Ha Long Bay Over 1,600[15] Vietnam Zhoushan archipelago 1,390[16] China Great Barrier Reef Over 900[17] Australia Lucayan Archipelago740[18] The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom) Seto Inland SeaOver 700[19] Japan Dalmatia1,244–1246[20] Croatia Maldive Islands1,190[21] Maldives West Estonian archipelagoAlmost 900[22] Estonia Mergui Archipelago Around 800[23] Myanmar Falkland Islands780[24] Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) New Zealand archipelagoOver 600[25] New Zealand Recherche ArchipelagoAround 105[26] Australia Close See also Islands portalLists portal Archipelagic state List of archipelagos List of countries by number of islands References [1]"Archipelago". education.nationalgeographic.org. 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