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archipelago

Collection of islands including the water around them; use island group (Q1402592) for a collection of islands excluding neighbouring water

EntityQ33837

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

Subclass of: landmass
, island group

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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. The largest archipelago country in the world is Indonesia, whose territory comprises most of the Indonesian Archipelago. Examples of archipelagos include the Aegean Islands, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the Stockholm Archipelago, the Lucayan (Bahamian) Archipelago, the Japanese archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, and the Galapagos.

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49 statements · 29% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

OpenStreetMap tag: place=archipelago
Has part(s) of the class: island
islet
Has list: list of archipelagos
Different from: island group
SRGB color hex triplet: CC1F00
Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after archipelagos

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34 identifiers linking archipelago across the web's reference databases

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