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1 day ago · This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world larger than 2,500 km 2 (970 sq mi) and most of the islands over 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi), sorted in descending order by area. For size and location reference, four very large continental landmasses are also shown.
- Baffin Island
Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian...
- Victoria Island
Victoria Island (Inuinnaqtun: Kitlineq) is a large island in...
- Geography of Jamaica
Jamaica's parishes, rivers and population centres and other...
- Geography of Cuba
Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea.It comprises...
- Ellef Ringnes Island
NASA Landsat photo of Ellef Ringnes Island. Ellef Ringnes...
- Baffin Island
2 days ago · Asia ( / ˈeɪʒə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈeɪʃə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [note 1] [10] [11] in the world by both land area and population. [11] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [note 2] about 30% of Earth 's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
2 days ago · Africa is the world's second largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [7] With 1.4 billion people [1] [2] as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population.
3 days ago · This body of water, over 20 square miles (52 km 2), was the largest artificial lake in the world when completed in 1845. Ohio's canal-building projects were not the economic fiasco that similar efforts were in other states. Some cities, such as Dayton, owe their industrial emergence to their location on canals, and as late as 1910 interior ...
4 days ago · 160,885 km 2 (62,118 sq mi) Sweden is a country in Northern Europe on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It borders Norway to the west; Finland to the northeast; and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia to the south and east.
1 day ago · Tashkent ( / tæʃˈkɛnt /, US also / tɑːʃ -/; ) or Toshkent ( / tɒʃˈkɛnt /; Uzbek: Toshkent, Тошкент / تاشکند, IPA: [tɒʃˈkent]; historically known as Chach, Shash, Binkat) is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 3 million. [4]
2 days ago · About 40 miles (65 km) inland from the coast is a region of undulating land that rises from 50-foot (15-metre) hills on the eastern, coastal side of the region to 400-foot (120-metre) ones on the western side. The area is between 80 and 100 miles (130 and 160 km) wide and is widest in the southeast.
