Together with Hong Kong Island, it contains 48 percent of Hong Kong's total population.

Villagers from Gangjeong, South Korea, have been protesting against the construction of a naval base on Jeju Island for several years.

Sarawak () is one of the two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo.

Ksenya Semenova writes on OpenDemocracy.net about the reactions of Sakhalin residents to the situation in Japan I have some friends in Japan .

About two thirds of the population lives on New Providence Island (the location of Nassau), and about half of the remaining one third lives on Grand Bahama (the location of Freeport).

A line from Tg Sarokaja to the Western Paternoster island () thence to the Northeastern Postiljon Island () and to the West point of Laikang Bay, Celebes.

And Mohamed Buali, a Muharraq resident with 3,890 followers on Twitter, notes

From 26 March to 31 March 2008, he was the provisional President of Anjouan, an island in the Comoros.

The most sophisticated water powered astronomical clock was Al Jazari's castle clock, considered by some to be an early example of a programmable analog computer, in 1206.

It has often been described as an archipelago of 16 islands.

What I believe is known as a locked room mystery, on an island.

The video shows a riot policeman throwing a brick at a parked car in the village of Jurdab.

Plot Lucas is a member of a close knit Danish community and works at a local kindergarten.

This constitutes just under 3 of the population of the UK (62 million) and just over 28 of the population of the island of Ireland (6.3 million).

The island is mostly mountainous with a mountain range in the west of the island from the north to the south.

This is because Cyprus remains a divided island.

One is joining a team at one of the five camps in Lesvos to turn it winter proof.

It contains 95 islands and islets, including the largest island in Guangdong, Shangchuan Island.

One high ranking official, Sergei Belyakov, already lost his job, when he dared to apologize for the decision on Facebook. Anonymous International also jokes that Medvedev opposes Russia's annexation of Crimea, an acquisition that Russians have christened simply KrymNash, or Crimea is ours. Just this week, Medvedev was photographed in Crimea signing a map with this slogan.

Melville Island may refer to Melville Island (Australia), in the Northern Territory Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), in northern Canada Melville Island (Nova Scotia), a small island in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands near Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada Melville Island, a small island near Dundas Island near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

No single island of my country was spared in the disaster.

Had only the New Territories been returned to China, it would also have been difficult to accommodate those New Territories residents moving to the Kowloon Peninsula and Hong Kong Island.

This implies serious risks for a primary source of protein needed for a growing world population.

Cedros Island (Isla de Cedros, island of cedars in Spanish, also called in English Cerros Island in former times) is a Mexican island in the Pacific Ocean.

) is the largest and northernmost island of the group.

The sea is bounded on the west by Borden Island and Mackenzie King Island, and on the east by Ellef Ringnes Island.

The city's population, according to the 2002 census, was 1,926,334 inhabitants, or 8.9 of the total population of Romania.

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Samosir, or Samosir Island, is a large volcanic island in Lake Toba, located in the north of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

Santa Fe Island (Spanish Isla Santa Fe ), also called Barrington Island after admiral Samuel Barrington, is a small island of 24 km² (9m²) which lies in the centre of the Galapagos archipelago, to the south east of Santa Cruz Island.

Maria Island is a mountainous island off the east coast of Tasmania.

Pinta Island, also known as Abingdon Island, after the Earl of Abingdon, is an island located in the Galapagos Islands group, Ecuador.

The indigenous people of the Amazon commonly used Hymenaea trees.

The World Health Organization estimates that 10 of the population of underdeveloped countries has one form of disability or another.

Patmos (Greek, Πάτμος ) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea.

It is between Victoria Island to the west and King William Island to the east.

At , Samosir is the largest island within an island, and the fifth largest lake island in the world.

Located 64 kilometres to the north of the larger Viti Levu, the island has an area of 5,587.1 km² and a population of 135,961 as of 2007.

One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Prince of Wales Island is an Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada, lying between Victoria Island and Somerset Island and south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

Flores Island () is an island of the Western group (Grupo Ocidental) of the Azores.

Alor is the largest island in the archipelago which is located at its eastern end.

It consists of the southern and eastern parts of Victoria Island with the adjacent part of the mainland as far as the Boothia Peninsula, together with King William Island and the southern portion of Prince of Wales Island.

Viti Levu (pronounced ) is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji, the site of the nation's capital, Suva, and home to a large majority of Fiji's population.

Bawean () is an island of Indonesia located approximately 150 km north of Surabaya in the Java Sea, off the coast of Java.

All claim areas, except Peter I Island, are sectors, the borders of which are defined by degrees of longitude.