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An island or isle is any piece of 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 of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK5___ . A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key , is a small , low - elevation , sandy island on the surface of 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 ___MASK54___ Barrier Reef ). Alaban is the largest village on the island of Tuangku . It is located on the northern shore of the island . Tuangku ( also known as Great Banyak ) is the main and largest island in the Banyak Islands group in ___MASK88___ . The largest town on the island is Alaban . The Banyak Islands ( sometimes spelled Banjak Islands ) are a group of inhabited islands located between Simeulue and Nias off the western coast of Sumatra in ___MASK88___ ' s Aceh Province . Surveys of 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 of Haloban . Two other major islands located either side of Tuangku are Bangkaru and Ujung Batu . Tuangku is separated from Bangkaru by a fault line . ___MASK88___ ( or ; Indonesian : ), officially the Republic of ___MASK88___ , 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 , ___MASK88___ 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 . The ___MASK5___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK5___ , 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 ___MASK5___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South ___MASK59___ Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK5___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and ___MASK88___ to the south . A continent is one of 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 , ___MASK56___ , Europe , and Australia . In geology , areas of continental crust include regions covered with water .