Name the ten biggest islands on the planet, ranked by land area. The number one answer is over ten times the size of the number ten, and the list spans the Arctic, the tropics, and everything in between.
This one rewards knowing the world's cold, empty corners: several entries sit near or above the Arctic Circle with populations smaller than a village, and most players have never heard of at least one of them. If tropical islands are all that come to mind, you're in for a surprise — the far north dominates this list.
How to play
Every island is pinned on the map from the start, so its location is your hint — you just have to name it.
Type anywhere and the answer bar picks it up; no need to click first.
Alternate names are accepted — "Kalimantan" works for Borneo, for example.
A count-up timer tracks your run; the leaderboard rewards speed.
Give up any time to reveal the remaining islands and log your result.
What counts in this quiz
Exactly 10 islands, ranked by land area in square kilometers.
Islands shared between countries count as one island — New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) and Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei) are single entries.
Greenland leads the list at about 2.13 million km², nearly three times the size of second place.
What's not included — and why
Australia is not on the list — by convention it's classed as a continental landmass, not an island. If it counted, at 7.7 million km² it would be more than three times the size of Greenland and nothing else would come close.
Java, the world's most populous island, misses the cut — huge in people, but only around 13th in area.
Good to know
Canada owns three of the top 10 islands outright — all of them Arctic, and all home to fewer people than a small town.
Borneo is the only island in the world divided between three sovereign countries.
New Guinea hosts more than 800 living languages — over 10% of all the languages spoken on Earth, on a single island.