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The Banyak Islands ( sometimes spelled Banjak Islands ) are a group ___MASK72___ inhabited islands located between Simeulue and Nias off the western coast ___MASK72___ Sumatra in ___MASK13___ ' s ___MASK1___ Province . Surveys ___MASK72___ the area approximate around 71 islands and additional mangrove stands in shallow off - shore areas , although locals count 99 islands . The largest island in the group is Tuangku , with the principal town ___MASK72___ Haloban . Two other major islands located either side ___MASK72___ Tuangku are Bangkaru and Ujung Batu . Tuangku is separated from Bangkaru by a fault line . A continent is one ___MASK72___ several very large landmasses on Earth . Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria , up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents . Ordered from largest in size to smallest , they are : Asia , Africa , North America , South America , Antarctica , Europe , and Australia . In geology , areas ___MASK72___ continental crust include regions covered with water . The ___MASK31___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK31___ , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the ___MASK31___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South ___MASK85___ Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK31___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . ___MASK13___ ( or ; Indonesian : ), officially the Republic of ___MASK13___ , is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia with some territories in Oceania . Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans , it is the world ' s largest island country , with more than seventeen thousand islands . At , ___MASK13___ is the world ' s 14th - largest country in terms of land area and world ' s 7th - largest country in terms of combined sea and land area . It has an estimated population of over 260 million people and is the world ' s fourth most populous country , the most populous Austronesian nation , as well as the most populous Muslim - majority country . The world ' s most populous island of Java contains more than half of the country ' s population . A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key , is a small , low - elevation , sandy island on the surface ___MASK72___ a coral reef . Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific , Atlantic and Indian Oceans ( including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef ). An islet is a very small island . Types . As suggested by its origin as " islette ", an Old French diminutive ___MASK72___ " isle ", use ___MASK72___ the term implies small size , but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability . An island or isle is any piece ___MASK72___ sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping ___MASK72___ geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK31___ . Lake Island is an island on the coast ___MASK72___ the Canadian province ___MASK72___ British Columbia . It is located between Mathieson Channel and Lady Trutch Passage , and is flanked by Dowager Island ( to the northwest ), Lady Douglas Island ( to the west ), and a long finger shaped peninsula ___MASK72___ the Canadian mainland to the east . Ironically , Lake Island is not a lake island , as it is in an inlet ___MASK72___ the ___MASK45___ , and lies only some 6 kilometres from the open sea . Tuangku ( also known as Great Banyak ) is the main and largest island in the Banyak Islands group in ___MASK13___ . The largest town on the island is Alaban . An archipelago , sometimes called an island group or island chain , is a chain , cluster or collection ___MASK72___ islands . The word " archipelago " is derived from the Greek "  -  arkhi -" (" chief ") and "   pélagos " (" sea ") through the Italian " arcipelago ". In Italian , possibly following a tradition ___MASK72___ antiquity , the Archipelago ( from medieval Greek "*  " and Latin " archipelagus ") was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and , later , usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number ___MASK72___ islands ). It is now used to refer to any island group or , sometimes , to a sea containing a small number ___MASK72___ scattered islands . Alaban is the largest village on the island ___MASK72___ Tuangku . It is located on the ___MASK98___ shore ___MASK72___ the island . Water is a transparent and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent ___MASK72___ Earth ' s streams , ___MASK65___ , and oceans , and the fluids ___MASK72___ most living organisms . Its chemical formula is HO , meaning that its molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms , that are connected by covalent bonds . Water strictly refers to the liquid state ___MASK72___ that substance , that prevails at standard ambient temperature and pressure ; but it often refers also to its solid state ( ice ) or its gaseous state ( steam or water vapor ). It also occurs in nature as snow , glaciers , ice packs and icebergs , clouds , fog , dew , aquifers , and atmospheric humidity .