List of island nations
This is a list of island nations, political entities that encompass entire single islands, groups of islands or other circumnavigable landmasses, or that are primarily located on islands.
Current
Independent island nations
By type
Centered on one major island
Spread over an archipelego
Shares one or more of its islands with another state
- Brunei - island of Borneo, border with Malaysia
- Dominican Republic - island of Hispaniola, border with Haiti
- East Timor - island of Timor, border with Indonesian province of West Timor
- Haiti - island of Hispaniola, border with the Dominican Republic
- Indonesia - islands of New Guinea, Timor, and Borneo. Borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia
- Ireland - island of Ireland, border with the United Kingdom
- Papua New Guinea - island of New Guinea, border with the Indonesian province of Papua
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - island of Cyprus, border with the Republic of Cyprus
- United Kingdom - island of Ireland, border with the Republic or Ireland
Independent but not widely recognized
Continental shelf
Oceanic ridges or atolls
Entire continent and outlying islands
Autonomous or semi-autonomous island nations
Extinct
Historical
Former colonies, possessions, protectorates and territories
- Danish West Indies, now the United States Virgin Islands
- New Caledonia, now an overseas department of France
- Newfoundland, now a part of Canada.
- New Hebrides, now Vanuatu
- Tasmania, now a part of Australia
- Vancouver Island, now a part of Canada
- West Indies Federation, split up into Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago, Trinidad, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Notes
1 The Cook Islands and Niue are in free association with New Zealand. See Niue Constitution Act 1974 (NZ).
2 In association with the United States.
