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Bigger and busier: every island matchup so far.
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Which island is bigger: Réunion or Long Island?
Long Island vs Réunion
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- Long Island: 3,570 km² ✓
- Réunion: 2,510 km²
Long Island: about 42% more
Long Island is about 40% bigger than Réunion and home to around 8 million people, nearly ten times Réunion's population.
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Which island is bigger: Kyushu or Hispaniola?
Hispaniola vs Kyushu
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- Hispaniola: 76.4K km² ✓
- Kyushu: 36.8K km²
Hispaniola: about 2.1× as much
Hispaniola is about twice the size of Kyushu, Japan's third-largest main island.
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Which island is bigger: Guam or Corfu?
Guam vs Corfu
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- Guam: 544 km²
- Corfu: 626 km² ✓
Corfu: about 15% more
Corfu is only about 15% bigger than Guam.
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Which island is bigger: Santorini or Barbuda?
Santorini vs Barbuda
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- Santorini: 79.2 km²
- Barbuda: 161 km² ✓
Barbuda: about 2× as much
Barbuda is about twice the size of Santorini but has only around 1,600 residents, against Santorini's roughly 15,000.
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Which island is bigger: Sulawesi or Ireland?
Ireland vs Sulawesi
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- Ireland: 84.4K km²
- Sulawesi: 175K km² ✓
Sulawesi: about 2.1× as much
Sulawesi is about twice the size of Ireland, spread across four long, spindly peninsulas.
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Which island is bigger: Java or New Zealand's South Island?
South Island vs Java
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- South Island: 150K km² ✓
- Java: 128K km²
South Island: about 17% more
New Zealand's South Island is about 17% bigger than Java, but Java has around 150 million people and the South Island about 1.2 million.
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Which island is bigger: Hispaniola or Newfoundland?
Newfoundland vs Hispaniola
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- Newfoundland: 109K km² ✓
- Hispaniola: 76.4K km²
Newfoundland: about 42% more
Newfoundland is about 40% bigger than Hispaniola, but Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, has over 20 million people.
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Which island is bigger: Taiwan or Timor?
Timor vs Taiwan Island
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- Timor: 30.8K km²
- Taiwan Island: 35.9K km² ✓
Taiwan Island: about 17% more
Taiwan is only about 5,000 km² bigger than Timor, a difference about the size of Bali.
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Which island is bigger: Sumatra or Great Britain?
Sumatra vs Great Britain
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- Sumatra: 473K km² ✓
- Great Britain: 229K km²
Sumatra: about 2.1× as much
Sumatra is more than twice the size of Great Britain and is the sixth-largest island in the world.
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Which island is bigger: Ireland or Mindanao?
Mindanao vs Ireland
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- Mindanao: 97.5K km² ✓
- Ireland: 84.4K km²
Mindanao: about 16% more
Mindanao is about 15% bigger than the whole island of Ireland, and it's only the Philippines' second-largest island after Luzon.