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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands, with a total area of about 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 112 million, it is the world's fourteenth-most-populous country.
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is an archipelagic country consisting of six major islands and over 1,000 smaller islands in Melanesia, Oceania, to the north-east of Australia. It is adjacent to Bougainville to the west, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the south-east, Fiji, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna to the east, and the Federated States of Micronesia and Nauru to the north. It has a total area of 28,896 square kilometres, and a population of 828,857 according to the official estimates from 2025. Its capital and largest city, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
union territory of India
Lesser Sunda Islands
group of islands in the southern Indonesian Archipelago
Aleutian Islands
chain of islands in the Northern Pacific
Sunda Islands
western part of the Malayo-Indonesian Archipelago
Aeolian Islands
archipelago
Greater Sunda Islands
group of four islands in the Malayo-Indonesian Archipelago
Mascarene Islands
archipelago east of Madagascar
Mentawai Islands
regency in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia
South Sandwich Islands
island group
Insular Islands
chain of active volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean during the Cretaceous period on the Insular Plate; 115 million years ago, collided with the North American continent to form the Insular Mountains
Intermontane Islands
chain of active volcanic islands somewhere in the Pacific Ocean during the Triassic