Largest Archipelagos

The world's largest archipelagos by total geographic area, featuring massive collections of islands spanning tropical equators and frozen polar regions.

• Malay Archipelago — 2,000,000 (Southeast Asia)
• Canadian Arctic Archipelago — 1,424,500 (Northern Canada)
• Japanese Archipelago — 377,900 (East Asia)
• British Isles — 315,100 (Northwestern Europe)
• New Zealand Archipelago — 268,000 (Southwestern Pacific)
• Antilles — 235,800 (Caribbean Sea)
• Novaya Zemlya — 90,650 (Arctic Ocean (Russia))
• Tierra del Fuego — 73,750 (South America (Chile/Argentina))
• Svalbard — 61,022 (Arctic Ocean (Norway))
• Severnaya Zemlya — 37,000 (Arctic Ocean (Russia))

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