Largest Islands by Continent
Asia's largest island - Borneo Island
Borneo Island is the world's third largest island, with an area of 74.33 million square kilometers, belonging to tropical rainforest climate, abundant vegetation, this island belongs to Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.
Borneo Island is located in Southeast Asia, south of the Java Sea, north of the South China Sea. The northern part is the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah, between which is Brunei, and the Indonesian North Kalimantan Province is also in the north. The south is the four provinces of Indonesia's East, South, Central, and West Kalimantan. It has a long history, and the Chinese historical records call it ‘Poli’, ‘Buni’, ‘Bo Ni’, ‘Bo Luo’ etc. It is a large, sparsely populated island.
Europe's largest island - Great Britain Island
Britain Island is the largest island in the British Isles. East by the North Sea, west by the Irish Sea, opposite to the Emerald Island, north by the Atlantic Ocean, south by the English Channel and France, it is a world outside the mainland, and the closest distance to the mainland is 32 kilometers, located in the Dover Strait. The island is surrounded by more than 1000 small islands.
Africa's largest island - Madagascar Island
Madagascar Island is located on the southeastern sea of the African continent, as the second largest island after Greenland Island, New Guinea Island (also known as Irian Island) and Borneo Island, separated by the Mozambique Channel from the African continent, the closest distance is 386 kilometers.
Area is 587041 square kilometers. Madagascar Island is a long, narrow, mountainous landmass that slopes westward. The island's shape is elongated, narrow in the north and south, wide in the middle, the widest part of the territory reaches 576 kilometers. The total coastline is 3991 kilometers. It is the largest island in the Indian Ocean crossing the Tropic of Cancer.
North America's largest island - Greenland Island
Greenland Island, is a Danish territory, the largest island in the world, with an area of 2,166,313.54 square kilometers, located in the northeast of North America, between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Greenland Sea.
South America's largest island - Tierra del Fuego Island
Tierra del Fuego Island, is the largest island in South America. The main island, Great Tierra del Fuego, is separated from the South American mainland by the Magellan Strait (the narrowest part is only 3.3 kilometers), with an area of 4.87 million square kilometers. Including hundreds of nearby small islands and reefs, the total area of the island group is about 7.3 million square kilometers, about 1/3 belongs to Chile, 2/3 belongs to Argentina.
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