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This is a list of islands of France, including both metropolitan France and French overseas islands.

Ranking of French islands

By area

All French islands over , ranked by decreasing area.

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|- valign="top"

! Rank !! Name !! Location !! Area<br />(km) !! Area<br />(sq mi)

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| 1 || Grande-Terre (main island of New Caledonia) || New Caledonia ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 2 || Corsica || Mediterranean Sea ||

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| 3 || Grande-Terre (main island of the Kerguelen Islands) || Kerguelen Islands ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 4 || Réunion || Réunion ||

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| 5 || Lifou || New Caledonia ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 6 || Martinique || Martinique ||

|-

| 7 || Tahiti || French Polynesia ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 8 || Basse-Terre || Guadeloupe ||

|-

| 9 || Maré || New Caledonia ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 10 || Grande-Terre (main island of Guadeloupe) || Guadeloupe ||

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| 11 || Grande-Terre (main island of Mayotte) || Mayotte ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 12 || Nuku Hiva || French Polynesia ||

|-

| 13 || Hiva Oa || French Polynesia ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 14 || Miquelon || Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon ||

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| 15 || Île Foch || Kerguelen Islands ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 16 || Oléron ||Atlantic Ocean ||

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| 17 || Raiatea || French Polynesia ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 18 || Marie-Galante || Guadeloupe ||

|-

| 19 || Île de la Possession || Crozet Islands ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 20 || Île des Pins || New Caledonia ||

|-

| 21 || Ouvéa|| New Caledonia ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 22 || Moorea || French Polynesia ||

|-

| 23 || Île de l'Est || Crozet Islands ||

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 24 || Ua Pou || French Polynesia ||

|}

By population

List of the most populated French islands.

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|- valign="top"

! Rank !! Name !! Location !! Population

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| 1 || Réunion || Indian Ocean|| style="text-align:right;"| 802,000 <small>(January 2008)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 2 || Martinique || Caribbean Sea || style="text-align:right;"| 402,000 <small>(January 2008)</small>

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| 3 || Corsica || Mediterranean Sea || style="text-align:right;"| 302,000 <small>(January 2008)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 4 || New Caledonia's mainland (Grande-Terre) || Pacific Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 205,939 <small>(August 2009)</small>

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| 5 || Guadeloupe's Grande-Terre || Caribbean Sea || style="text-align:right;"| 197,603 <small>(January 2006)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 6 || Guadeloupe's Basse-Terre || Caribbean Sea || style="text-align:right;"| 186,661 <small>(January 2006)</small>

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| 7 || Tahiti || Pacific Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 178,133 <small>(August 2007)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 8 || Mayotte's mainland (Grande Terre) || Indian Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 162,036 <small>(July 2007)</small>

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| 9 || Saint Martin (French part only) || Caribbean Sea || style="text-align:right;"| 35,263 <small>(January 2006)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 10 || Mayotte's Petite Terre (aka Pamanzi) || Indian Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 24,416 <small>(July 2007)</small>

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| 11 || Oléron || Bay of Biscay|| style="text-align:right;"| 20,991 <small>(January 2006)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 12 || Île de Ré || Bay of Biscay || style="text-align:right;"| 17,640 <small>(January 2006)</small>

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| 13 || Moorea || Pacific Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 16,191 <small>(August 2007)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 14 || Raiatea || Pacific Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 12,024 <small>(August 2007)</small>

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| 15 || Marie-Galante || Caribbean Sea || style="text-align:right;"| 12,009 <small>(January 2006)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 16 || Lifou || Pacific Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 10,170 <small>(August 2004)</small>

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| 17 || Noirmoutier || Bay of Biscay|| style="text-align:right;"| 9,813 <small>(January 2006)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 18 || Wallis (aka Uvea) || Pacific Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 9,227 <small>(July 2008)</small>

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| 19 || Bora Bora || Pacific Ocean || style="text-align:right;"| 8,927 <small>(August 2007)</small>

|- style="background:#efefef;"

| 20 || Saint Barthélemy ||Caribbean Sea || style="text-align:right;"| 8,450 <small>(January 2007)</small>

|}

Islands of metropolitan France

Atlantic coast

List of inhabited islands of Atlantic France:

{| class="wikitable sortable"

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! &nbsp; !! Name !! Region !! Population !! Area (km<sup>2</sup>)

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| 1 || Oléron || Nouvelle-Aquitaine || style="text-align:right;"| 21,871 || 174

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| 2 || Île de Ré || Nouvelle-Aquitaine || style="text-align:right;"| 17,723 || 85

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| 3 || Noirmoutier || Pays de la Loire || style="text-align:right;"| 9,590 || 49

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| 4 || Belle-Île-en-Mer || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 5,426 || 85.63

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| 5 || Île d'Yeu || Pays de la Loire || style="text-align:right;"| 4,850 || 23.32

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| 6 || Groix || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 2,234 || 14.82

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| 7 || Ushant || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 833 || 15.58

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| 8 || Île-Grande || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 800 || 1.70

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| 9 || Île-aux-Moines || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 620 || 3.20

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| 10 || Île de Batz || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 452 || 3.05

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| 11 || Île-de-Bréhat || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 352 || 3.09

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| 12 || Île de Sein || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 260 || 0.58

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| 13 || Île-d'Arz || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 227 || 3.3

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| 14 || Houat || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 216 || 2.91

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| 15 || Île-d'Aix || Nouvelle-Aquitaine || style="text-align:right;"| 207 || 1.19

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| 16 || Molène || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 160 || 0.75

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| 17 || Hœdic || Brittany || style="text-align:right;"| 94 || 2.08

|-

| 18 || Grande-Île, Chausey || Normandy || style="text-align:right;"| 30 || 0.45

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| 19 || Mont Saint-Michel || Normandy || style="text-align:right;"| 29 || 0.07

|}

Normandy

Brittany

Ille et Vilaine
Côtes-d'Armor
Finistère
Morbihan

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Pays de la Loire

Poitou-Charentes

Aquitaine

  • Banc d'Arguin
  • Île aux oiseaux (in Arcachon Bay)
  • Phare de Cordouan

Mediterranean coast

Languedoc-Roussillon

  • Fort de Brescou

Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur

Corsica

Islands in lakes and rivers

Alsace

  • Grande Île, in Strasbourg on the Ill River

Île-de-France

Midi-Pyrénées

  • Île du Ramier, in Toulouse on the Garonne River

Pays de la Loire

  • Île de Nantes, in Nantes on the Loire River
  • Béhuard, in the Loire River

Overseas

Indian Ocean

Mayotte (in the Indian Ocean)

  • Île Bambo
  • Île Bouzi
  • Île Brandélé
  • Îles Choazil
  • Grande-Terre (or Mahoré)
  • Îles Hajangoua
  • Île Handréma
  • Île Mtsamboro
  • Petite Terre (or Île Pamanzi)

Réunion (in the Indian Ocean)

  • Réunion

Scattered Islands (or Îles Éparses) in the Indian Ocean

  • Banc du Geyser
  • Bassas da India
  • Glorioso Islands
  • Île Glorieuse (or Grande Glorieuse)
  • Île du Lys (or Petite Glorieuse)
  • Les Roches Vertes
  • Europa Island
  • Juan de Nova
  • Tromelin Island

Antarctica

Adélie Land

  • Archipel de Pointe Géologie
  • Île Alexis Carrel
  • Île Buffon
  • Île Claude Bernard
  • Île Curie
  • Île Cuvier
  • Île de la Vierge
  • Île des Damiers
  • Île des Pétrels
  • Île du Bélier
  • Île du Capricorne
  • Île du Gouverneur
  • Île du Lion
  • Île du Navigateur
  • Île du Sagittaire
  • Île du Scorpion
  • Île du Taureau
  • Île Jean Rostand
  • Île Lamarck
  • Île Verte
  • Îles des Poissons
  • Îlot de la Balance
  • Îlot de la Baleine
  • Îlot de la Dent
  • Îlot de la Selle
  • Îlot des Champignons
  • Îlot du Cancer
  • Îlot du Marégraphe
  • Îlot du Mystère
  • Îlot du Verseau
  • Îlot Juliette
  • Îlot Roméo
  • Îlots des Hydrographes
  • Le Mauguen
  • Mid-Winter
  • Rocher Gris

Crozet Islands (in the Indian Ocean)

  • Îles des Apôtres
  • Île aux cochons
  • Île de l'Est
  • Île des pingouins
  • Île de la possession

Kerguelen Islands (in the Indian Ocean)

Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (in the Indian Ocean)

  • Île Amsterdam
  • Île Saint-Paul

North America

Caribbean

Guadeloupe (in the Caribbean Sea)
Martinique (in the Caribbean Sea)
Saint Barthélemy (in the Caribbean Sea)
  • Saint Barthélemy
Saint Martin (in the Caribbean Sea)
  • Saint Martin (shared with the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
  • Île Tintamarre

Northern America

Saint Pierre and Miquelon (in the North Atlantic Ocean)
  • Grand Colombier
  • Langlade
  • L'Île-aux-Marins
  • Miquelon
  • Île aux Pigeons
  • Saint Pierre Island
  • Île aux Vainqueurs
  • Green Island (Fortune), Newfoundland and Labrador ("Île Verte") (uncertain sovereignty between France and Canada)

Oceania

Clipperton Island (in the North Pacific Ocean)

  • Clipperton Island

French Polynesia (in the South Pacific Ocean)

New Caledonia (in the South Pacific Ocean)

Wallis and Futuna (in the South Pacific Ocean)

South America

French Guiana

  • Îles du Salut
  • Île du Diable
  • Île Royale
  • Île Saint-Joseph
  • Îlets de Rémire
  • Îlet la Mère
  • Constable Islands
  • Île Portal

See also

  • List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
  • List of Caribbean islands
  • List of French islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans
  • List of islands
  • List of islands in the Arctic Ocean
  • List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
  • List of islands in the Indian Ocean
  • List of islands in the Pacific Ocean

References