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What Are The Most Populated Islands On Earth?
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What Are The Most Populated Islands On Earth?



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There are an estimated 900,000 islands across the planet with around 16,000 of them being inhabited.

Technically speaking, the most populated island is Afro-eurasia, which is the African, European and Asian landmass, this region encompasses nearly 7 billion people, across 126 countries for a distance of nearly 80 million km2.

The Americas are also technically an island, within this region, lives just over a billion people, across 22 countries spanning over 37 million km2.

So in this video, we will take a look at the 10 most populated islands on Earth.

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49 Comments

  3. Dark Skeleton

    australia is a country, its territory contains the entire continental mass of oceania. So it isn't an island

  6. mysteriousDSF

    Great content, you never disappoint. Even if you make some embarrassing mistakes sometimes. (Not today)

  7. noodengr3 three

    I have been to Java , Sumatra, Taiwan,Luzon, Great Britain, Australia.. About opening didn't building the Suez and Panama canal technically seperate the land masses?

  8. Bryan Lane

    I like that you started by admitting that the idea of an island is a social construction. That being said, I've been to most of these places. Don't go to Java if you're an alcoholic like me, because it's largely Muslim. But the northern parts have good scuba diving. Honshu is nice but I'd recommend the less populated islands of Japan. Strangely I have been to Mindanao and never heard about the terrorism, but Cebu is probably a better destination in the Philippines. Skip out on Manila, it's a dump. I've been to Mumbai but I had to google that it's an island? It doesn't seem like one. Madagascar is the only one that really surprised me. Never been there, and I always thought it had a lower population.

  9. moimeme

    I've been in Madeira, Mallorca, Tenerife, Great Britain, Crete, Santorini, Sjaelland, Fyn, Falster, Bornholm, Capri, Murano, Burano

  11. Crown wolf

    Maldives capital city Male’ is more densely populated in any of this country’s in this list 🇲🇻

  14. James Aaron

    I live in a city here in Mindanao but it's very safe and peaceful. There are just some areas not advisable to travel

  18. Zhmer

    Africa is not connected to asia, making it its own individual island. TECHNICALLY the most populated island is just eurasia

  19. Mikail

    I've been living on both Java🇮🇩 and Honshu🇯🇵. Wish to go Britain🇬🇧 someday!

  21. James Stewart

    Java might no longer be the most populated island soon. Since they are moving their capital to Borneo, as Jakarta is sinking into the ocean, millions of people will leave the island. That could potentially make Honshu the most populated within the next few years.

  23. Dan Air Houston

    The most populated island I've ever been in is Galveston Island with 53,000 people.
    Second most is Mustang Island with 29,000.
    Third most is Cozumel with 21,000.

    But I'd definitely like to visit more islands

  24. Fiona Em

    Thank you for confirming the difference between Great Britain and the British Isles. I've never been quite sure which is which! Cheers from the really bloody big island continent of Australia 🇦🇺

  25. LDN UK

    Not surprised Britain is up there, we have millions of asian muslims and evangelical african christians having huge families between them. The future is an afro- asian high rise island like Hong Kong

  27. Benjamin Duigu

    Live in Australia, spent almost a year on Java, been to Britain, and Sri Lanka (12th) and New Guinea (14th).
    Next on the list soon hopefully are: Honshū, Kyushu, Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Hainan, Madagascar, and Cuba.

  28. Myrdana

    i still think the argument of australia being a continent is wrong, new ginnea is part of the same continent if so. and it also excludes new zealand, fiji and many other passicific island countries from beign part of anything.

  30. eka nanda

    I have lived in java and Borneo respectively. I thought java population density is the norm for all over the world but man that is plain wrong

  33. Aurid

    From 2009-2014, I have lived in a small town in Luzon. I loved it there, so I'm going back there for the summer.

  35. nongthip

    Without watching the video, the two obvious winners are Honshu (Japan) and Java (Indonesia).

  37. Jerfareza D

    Don't even have to watch the video to know my home island is no 1. It's crazy to think that almost half of Indonesia's population lives in Java.
    And now I live on the no 2 island. What a weird turn of event.

  38. pierrick roig

    (Not so) fun fact: Java's population and the number of buildings and constructions it implies weigh so much that the island is literally sinking. That's why Indonesia is being forced to move its capital city to Borneo instead.

  41. Bendy

    I live on an Island… Rhode Island… on the part attached to the mainland US, which is a part of the American island, but it’s in the name so yeah, it’s legit

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