GeotchaA geography quiz on a real globe

Islands in Europe among the world’s 100 largest

12 islands, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The islands

  1. 1Great Britain209,331 km²
  2. 2Iceland102,775 km²
  3. 3Ireland84,421 km²
  4. 4Severny Island47,079 km²
  5. 5Spitsbergen37,673 km²
  6. 6Yuzhny Island33,275 km²
  7. 7Sicily25,662 km²
  8. 8Sardinia23,949 km²
  9. 9Nordaustlandet14,443 km²
  10. 10Corsica8,680 km²
  11. 11Crete8,336 km²
  12. 12Zealand7,031 km²

Land area in km²: the Largest Islands set’s figure for its islands, else Wikidata’s (P2046) where it fits the outline, else the area of the outline. Every island Natural Earth draws at 1:10m that Wikidata names, of 5 km² or more (smaller ones when well known), and every island of the Largest Islands set. Countries are those the island’s land lies in, from the outlines. Islands in Antarctica are left out unless the quiz includes Antarctica. Places are by geography: what lies in a dependency counts for its own region (Puerto Rico’s islands are the Caribbean’s, Réunion’s Africa’s), and Hawaii is in Polynesia. Ranked in the world first: the 100 largest islands of the world, and of those the ones in Europe.

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