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Also known as island group, islands, archipelagos, island chain

thumb|upright=1.6|The Indonesian Archipelago, located in Asia and [[Oceania, is the largest archipelagic state in the world.]] thumb|upright|The Aegean Sea with its large number of islands is the origin of the term archipelago. thumb|The Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands. An archipelago may be in an ocean, a sea, or a smaller body of water. Examples of archipelagos include the Aegean Islands (the origin of the term), the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Stockholm Archipelago, the Mal

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An archipelago is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands located in an ocean, sea, or other body of water. Archipelagos matter because they represent significant geographical features—some, like Indonesia, form entire nations—and the term itself originated from the islands of the Aegean Sea, making archipelagos important to both geography and history.

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