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List of islands of the United States by area



 
 
This is a list of island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
s of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, as ordered by area
. It includes all islands with an area greater than 20 square miles (approximately 32 kmē
Square kilometre

Square kilometre , symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI Units of measurement of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units....
), but excludes peninsulas such as Cape Cod
Cape Cod

Cape Cod, often referred to as simply the Cape, is a peninsula in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States....
, Copper Island
Copper Island

Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula , separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway....
, or Delmarva Peninsula
Delmarva Peninsula

The Delmarva Peninsula is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States of the United States, occupied by portions of three U.S. states: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia....
 that were originally connected to the mainland, but have been effectively transformed into islands by the building of canal
Canal

Canals are artificial channels for water. There are two types of canals: Aqueduct canals, which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water, and waterways, which are navigable transportation canals used for passage of goods and people, often connected to existing lakes, rivers, or oceans....
s.

Islands 250 –
This section of the list might not be complete, but covers almost all of the islands in the United States over .

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Rank Island's Name Area (sq mi) Area (kmē) Location Population (2000)
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
29 Wrangell Island
Wrangell Island

Wrangell Island is in the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle of southeastern Alaska. It is 48 km long and 8–23 km wide. It has a land area of 544.03 Square kilometre , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
216 560 2,401
30 Mitkof Island
Mitkof Island

Mitkof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska, at . between Kupreanof Island to the west and the Alaska mainland to the east....
 
211 546 3,364
31 Padre Island
Padre Island

Padre Island is part of the U.S. state of Texas. The island is located on Texas' southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico and is famous for its white sandy beaches at the south end....
 
209 542 ?
32 Guam
Guam

Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....
 
209 541 154,805
33 Isle Royale
Isle Royale

Isle Royale is an Islands of the Great Lakes, located in the northwest of Lake Superior. The island and the surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale National Park....
 
206 534 0
34 Tanaga Island
Tanaga Island

Tanaga Island is an island in the western Andreanof Islands, in the southwest part of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The island has a land area of , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
204 529 0
35 Zarembo Island
Zarembo Island

Zarembo Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States. It lies directly south of Mitkof Island and northwest of Etolin Island....
 
185 478 0
36 Unga Island
Unga Island

Unga Island is the largest of the Shumagin Islands off the Alaska Peninsula in southwestern Alaska, USA. The island has a land area of 170.73 square mile , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
177 461 0
37 Amlia
Amlia

Amlia is an island in the Aleutian Islands. It is located near the eastern end of the Andreanof Islands and is situated between Atka Island and Seguam Island....
 
176 459 0
38 Hinchinbrook Island
Hinchinbrook Island (Alaska)

Hinchinbrook Island is an island in the Gulf of Alaska lying at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the state of Alaska, USA. The island has a land area of 171.98 square mile , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
170 445 5
39 Kosciusko Island
Kosciusko Island

Kosciusko Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies near the northwest corner of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, just across the El Capitan Passage from the larger island....
 
169 438 52
40 Whidbey Island
Whidbey Island

Whidbey Island is one of nine islands located in Island County, Washington, Washington, in the United States. Whidbey is located about 30 miles north of Seattle, Washington, and lies between the Olympic Peninsula and the Interstate 5 corridor of western Washington....
 
169 437 58,211
41 Kruzof Island
Kruzof Island

Kruzof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska at . It is about 16 km west of Sitka, Alaska, and is part of the City and Borough of Sitka....
 
168 435 0
42 Kanaga Island
Kanaga Island

Kanaga Island is a part of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. The island measures roughly 30 miles long and between 4 and 8 miles wide with an area of 142 sq mi , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
142 369 0
43 Lanai
Lanai

Lanai or Lanai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation....
 
141 364 3,193
44 St. Matthew Island
St. Matthew Island

St. Matthew Island is an uninhabited island in the Bering Sea in Alaska, 295 km WNW of Nunivak Island. The island has a land area of 137.857 square mile , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
137 354 0
45 Annette Island
Annette Island

Annette Island is an island in Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean on the southeastern coast of the U.S. state of Alaska....
 
132 342 1,447
46 Akutan Island
Akutan Island

Akutan Island is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. The island is approximately 30 km in length....
 
129 334 713
47 Drummond Island 125.






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This is a list of island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
s of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, as ordered by area
. It includes all islands with an area greater than 20 square miles (approximately 32 kmē
Square kilometre

Square kilometre , symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI Units of measurement of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units....
), but excludes peninsulas such as Cape Cod
Cape Cod

Cape Cod, often referred to as simply the Cape, is a peninsula in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States....
, Copper Island
Copper Island

Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula , separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway....
, or Delmarva Peninsula
Delmarva Peninsula

The Delmarva Peninsula is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States of the United States, occupied by portions of three U.S. states: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia....
 that were originally connected to the mainland, but have been effectively transformed into islands by the building of canal
Canal

Canals are artificial channels for water. There are two types of canals: Aqueduct canals, which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water, and waterways, which are navigable transportation canals used for passage of goods and people, often connected to existing lakes, rivers, or oceans....
s.

Islands over


Rank Island's Name Area (sq mi) Area (kmē) Location Population (2000)
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
1 Hawaii (Big Island)
Hawaii (island)

The Island of Hawaii, also called the Big Island or Hawaii Island , is a volcano island in the U.S. Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean....
 
4,028 10,433 148,677
2 Kodiak Island
Kodiak Island

Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago and at 8975 km? in area, it is the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
 
3,588 9,293 13,913
3 Puerto Rico
Geography of Puerto Rico

The geography of Puerto Rico describes an archipelago located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
 
3,435 9,104 3,808,610
4 Prince of Wales Island
Prince of Wales Island, Alaska

Prince of Wales Island is one of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle. It is the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
 
2,577 6,675 6,000 ˜
5 Chichagof Island
Chichagof Island

Chichagof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Alaska Panhandle. At long and wide, it has a land area of , making it the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
 
2,080 5,388 1,342
6 St. Lawrence Island
St. Lawrence Island

St. Lawrence Island is located west of mainland Alaska in the Bering Sea, just south of the Bering Strait, at about 63?30' North 173?20' West. It is part of Alaska, but closer to Russia than to the Alaskan mainland....
 
1,983 5,135 1,292
7 Admiralty Island
Admiralty Island

Admiralty Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Alaska Panhandle, at . It is 145 km  long and 56 km  wide with an area of 4,264.1 km? , making it the List of islands of the United...
 
1,684 4,362 650
8 Nunivak Island
Nunivak Island

Nunivak Island, the second largest island in the Bering Sea, is a permafrost-covered volcanic island lying about 48 km offshore from the delta of the Yukon River and Kuskokwim River rivers in the state of Alaska, at about 60? North latitude....
 
1,625 4,209 210
9 Unimak Island
Unimak Island

Unimak Island is the largest island in the Aleutian Islands chain of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the easternmost island in the Aleutians and, with an area of 4,069.9 km? , the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
 
1,590 4,119 64
10 Baranof Island
Baranof Island

Baranof Island, also sometimes called Baranov Island or Sitka Island, is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska....
 
1,570 4,065 8,532
11 Long Island
Long Island

Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
 
1,401 3,629 7,448,618
12 Revillagigedo Island
Revillagigedo Island

Revillagigedo Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska of the Alaska Panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska....
 
1,145 2,965 13,950
13 Kupreanof Island
Kupreanof Island

Kupreanof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska at . The island is 84 km long and 32 km wide with a total land area is 2,802.84 km? , making it the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
 
1,086 2,813 785
14 Unalaska Island
Unalaska Island

Unalaska is an island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska, at . The island has a land area of , making it the List of islands of the United States by area and the List of islands by area....
 
1,051 2,722 1,759
15 Nelson Island
Nelson Island (Alaska)

Nelson Island is an island in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska of southwestern Alaska. It is 68 km long and 32-56 km wide. With an area of 843 square miles , it is the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
843 2,183 1065
16 Kuiu Island
Kuiu Island

Kuiu Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska, at . It lies between Kupreanof Island, to its east, and Baranof Island, to its west....
 
758 1,962 10
17 Maui
Maui

The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles and is the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
727 1,883 117,644
18 Afognak
Afognak

Afognak is an island 5 km north of Kodiak Island in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 43 miles from east to west and 23 miles from north to south and has a land area of 1,812.58 km? , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
698 1,809 169
19 Umnak
Umnak

Umnak is one of the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands. With of land area, it is the third largest island in the Aleutian archipelago and the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
692 1,793 39
20 Oahu
Oahu

'Oahu' or 'Oahu' , known as Gathering_place#Island_of_O.7B.7Bokina.7D.7Dahu_as_The_Gathering_Place, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaii....
 
597 1,545 876,151
21 Kauai
Kauai

Kauai or Kauai is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of , it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago and the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
552 1,430 58,303
22 Atka Island
Atka Island

Atka Island is the largest island in the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The island is east of Adak Island. It is long and wide with a land area of , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
410 1,061 95
23 Attu Island
Attu Island

Attu is the Extreme points of the United States and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, making it the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska and the United States....
 
346 896 20
24 Etolin Island
Etolin Island

Etolin Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA, at . It is between Prince of Wales Island, to its west, and the Alaska mainland, to its east....
 
336 870 15
25 Adak Island
Adak Island

Adak Island is an island near the western extent of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Alaska's southernmost town, Adak, Alaska, is located on the island....
 
280 725 316
26 Montague Island
Montague Island (Alaska)

Montague Island is an island in the Gulf of Alaska lying at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the state of Alaska, USA. The island has a land area of 790.88 km? , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
279 722 0
27 Molokai
Molokai

Molokai or Molokai ) is an island in the Hawaiian Islands. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of 260.0 square miles , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
260 673 7,404
28 Dall Island
Dall Island

Dall Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago off the southeast coast of Alaska, just west of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska and north of Canadian waters....
 
253 655 20


Islands 250 –


This section of the list might not be complete, but covers almost all of the islands in the United States over .

Rank Island's Name Area (sq mi) Area (kmē) Location Population (2000)
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
29 Wrangell Island
Wrangell Island

Wrangell Island is in the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle of southeastern Alaska. It is 48 km long and 8–23 km wide. It has a land area of 544.03 Square kilometre , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
216 560 2,401
30 Mitkof Island
Mitkof Island

Mitkof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeast Alaska, at . between Kupreanof Island to the west and the Alaska mainland to the east....
 
211 546 3,364
31 Padre Island
Padre Island

Padre Island is part of the U.S. state of Texas. The island is located on Texas' southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico and is famous for its white sandy beaches at the south end....
 
209 542 ?
32 Guam
Guam

Guam , officially the Territory of Guam, is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated insular area of the United States....
 
209 541 154,805
33 Isle Royale
Isle Royale

Isle Royale is an Islands of the Great Lakes, located in the northwest of Lake Superior. The island and the surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale National Park....
 
206 534 0
34 Tanaga Island
Tanaga Island

Tanaga Island is an island in the western Andreanof Islands, in the southwest part of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The island has a land area of , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
204 529 0
35 Zarembo Island
Zarembo Island

Zarembo Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States. It lies directly south of Mitkof Island and northwest of Etolin Island....
 
185 478 0
36 Unga Island
Unga Island

Unga Island is the largest of the Shumagin Islands off the Alaska Peninsula in southwestern Alaska, USA. The island has a land area of 170.73 square mile , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
177 461 0
37 Amlia
Amlia

Amlia is an island in the Aleutian Islands. It is located near the eastern end of the Andreanof Islands and is situated between Atka Island and Seguam Island....
 
176 459 0
38 Hinchinbrook Island
Hinchinbrook Island (Alaska)

Hinchinbrook Island is an island in the Gulf of Alaska lying at the entrance to Prince William Sound in the state of Alaska, USA. The island has a land area of 171.98 square mile , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
170 445 5
39 Kosciusko Island
Kosciusko Island

Kosciusko Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies near the northwest corner of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, just across the El Capitan Passage from the larger island....
 
169 438 52
40 Whidbey Island
Whidbey Island

Whidbey Island is one of nine islands located in Island County, Washington, Washington, in the United States. Whidbey is located about 30 miles north of Seattle, Washington, and lies between the Olympic Peninsula and the Interstate 5 corridor of western Washington....
 
169 437 58,211
41 Kruzof Island
Kruzof Island

Kruzof Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska at . It is about 16 km west of Sitka, Alaska, and is part of the City and Borough of Sitka....
 
168 435 0
42 Kanaga Island
Kanaga Island

Kanaga Island is a part of the Andreanof Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. The island measures roughly 30 miles long and between 4 and 8 miles wide with an area of 142 sq mi , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
142 369 0
43 Lanai
Lanai

Lanai or Lanai is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation....
 
141 364 3,193
44 St. Matthew Island
St. Matthew Island

St. Matthew Island is an uninhabited island in the Bering Sea in Alaska, 295 km WNW of Nunivak Island. The island has a land area of 137.857 square mile , making it the List of islands of the United States by area....
 
137 354 0
45 Annette Island
Annette Island

Annette Island is an island in Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean on the southeastern coast of the U.S. state of Alaska....
 
132 342 1,447
46 Akutan Island
Akutan Island

Akutan Island is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. The island is approximately 30 km in length....
 
129 334 713
47 Drummond Island 125. 324 992
48 Hagemeister Island
Hagemeister Island

Hagemeister Island is an island in the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the north shore of Bristol Bay at the entrance to Togiak Bay.The island is long, has a land area of , and its highest point is ....
 
120 312 0
49 Nagai Island
Nagai Island

Nagai Island is one of the largest of the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska, south of the Alaska Peninsula considered a part of the NE Aleutian Range....
 
120 310 0
50 Amchitka
Amchitka

Amchitka is a volcanic, plate tectonics unstable island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. It is about long, and varies from 3 to 6 km in width....
 
119 309 0
51 Sitkalidak Island
Sitkalidak Island

Sitkalidak Island is an island the western Gulf of Alaska in the Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska of the state of Alaska, USA. It lies just off the southeast shore of Kodiak Island, across the Sitkalidak Strait from the city of Old Harbor, Alaska....
 
119 309 0
52 Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island

Mount Desert Island, in Hancock County, Maine, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine. With an area of 108 square miles it is the List of islands of the United States by area.....
 
108 280 10,424
53 Kiska
Kiska

Kiska is an island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska located at . It is about long and varies in width from 1.5 to 6 miles ...
 
107 278 0
54 Knight Island
Knight Island (Alaska)

Knight Island is an island in western Prince William Sound of the Gulf of Alaska in the state of Alaska, USA. It has a land area of 277.166 km? and no resident population as of the United States Census, 2000....
 
101 260 0
55 Marsh Island
Marsh Island (Louisiana)

Marsh Island an uninhabited low-lying marshy island in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, south coastal Louisiana, USA, lying between Vermilion Bay and the Gulf of Mexico....
 
100 259 0
56 Santa Cruz Island
Santa Cruz Island

File:Santa Cruz Island.jpgSanta Cruz Island was the largest privately owned island off the continental United States, but is currently part-owned by the National Park service ....
 
98 254 2
57 Gravina Island
Gravina Island

Gravina Island is an island in the Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska. It is long and about wide, with a land area of ....
 
95 245 50
58 Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard

Martha's Vineyard is an island off the United States east coast, to the south of Cape Cod, both forming a part of the Outer Lands region. It is often called just "the Vineyard"....
 
91 236 14,901
59 Agattu
Agattu

Agattu is an island in the Near Islands in the western end of the Aleutian Islands. With a land area of 221.593 km? Agattu is one of the largest uninhabited islands in the Aleutians....
 
90 234 0
60 Semisopochnoi Island
Semisopochnoi Island

Semisopochnoi Island is part of the Rat Islands group in the western Aleutian Islands. The island is uninhabited and provides an important nesting area for maritime birds....
 
86 224 0
61 Johns Island
Johns Island, South Carolina

John's Island, also spelled Johns Island, is one of the many Sea Islands along the coast of South Carolina. Located to the west of James Island and to the east of Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina and inshore of Seabrook Island and Kiawah Island....
 
84 217 11,477
62 Seguam Island
Seguam Island

Seguam Island is a small volcanic island in the Andreanof Islands group in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The island is mountainous and oval shaped with a land area of ....
 
83 215 1
63 Saint Croix
Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent Districts and sub-districts of the United States Virgin Islands of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States....
 
82 212 53,234
64 Yakobi Island
Yakobi Island

Yakobi Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States. It lies just off the western edge of Chichagof Island, separated from it by Lisianski Inlet and Lisianski Strait....
 
82 212 0
65 Santa Rosa Island
Santa Rosa Island, California

Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres . Defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3009, Block Group 3, census tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California, the United States Census, 2000 showed an official population of 2 persons....
 
81 209 2
66 Raspberry Island
Raspberry Island (Alaska)

Raspberry Island is an island of the Kodiak Archipelago located in the Gulf of Alaska in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located two miles northwest of Whale Island , and just across the mile wide Raspberry Strait from the southwestern end of Afognak....
 
77 200 2
67 Dauphin Island
Dauphin Island, Alabama

Dauphin Island is a town in Mobile County, Alabama, Alabama, United States, located on a barrier island also named Dauphin Island. The population was 1,371 at the 2000 United States Census....
 
75 194 1,371
68 Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island, California

Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California....
 
75 194 3,696


Islands under


This section of the list is not complete, although it should cover most of the islands in the United States over .

Island's Name Area (sq mi) Area (kmē) Location Population (2000)
United States Census, 2000

File:US-Census-2000Logo.svgThe Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons Enumeration during the United States Census, 1990....
Heceta Island
Heceta Island

Heceta Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies just off the west coast of Prince of Wales Island ....
 
70 181 14
Niihau
Niihau

Niihau or Niihau is the smallest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii, having an area of . Known as the "Forbidden Isle", Niihau lies 17.5 miles across the Hawaiian islands channels, southwest of Kauai, and the crescent-shaped island of Lehua is positioned 0.7 miles north of Niihau....
 
70 180 160
Saipan
Saipan

Saipan is the largest island and Capital of the United States Northern Mariana Islands , a chain of 15 tropical islands belonging to the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean with a total area of 115.39 km? ....
 
69 180 62,392
Tugidak Island
Tugidak Island

Tugidak Island is an island of the Kodiak Archipelago in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, Alaska, United States. It lies southwest of the southern tip of Kodiak Island in the western part of the Gulf of Alaska....
 
69 180 0
Hawkins Island
Hawkins Island (Alaska)

Hawkins Island is an island in the northern part of the Gulf of Alaska in the state of Alaska, USA. It lies just west of the city of Cordova, Alaska, between that city and the further offshore Hinchinbrook Island ....
 
67 175 4
Yunaska Island
Yunaska Island

Yunaska is the largest of the Islands of Four Mountains group in the Aleutian Islands of southwestern Alaska, United States. It has a land area of 173.099 km? and no population at the United States Census, 2000....
 
67 172 0
Sitkinak Island
Sitkinak Island

Sitkinak Island is an island of the Kodiak Archipelago of the state of Alaska, USA. It lies south of the southern tip of Kodiak Island in the western part of the Gulf of Alaska....
 
65 169 0
Akun Island
Akun Island

Akun Island is one of the Fox Islands subgroup of the Aleutian Islands in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska of southwestern Alaska, USA. It lies east of Akutan Island and southwest of Unimak Island across the Unimak Pass....
 
65 168 0
Shuyak Island
Shuyak Island

Shuyak Island is an island in the northern part of the Kodiak Archipelago in the state of Alaska, United States. It is located just north of Afognak Island, separated from it by the narrow Shuyak Strait....
 
65 168 0
Chuginadak Island
Chuginadak Island

Chuginadak Island is the largest island in the Islands of Four Mountains subgroup of the Aleutian Islands archipelago. Chuginadak is an Aleutian name published by Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkov in an 1852 map....
 
65 167 0
Sukkwan Island
Sukkwan Island

Sukkwan Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies just off the southwest coast of Prince of Wales Island ....
 
65 167 9
Galveston Island
Galveston Island

Galveston Island is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf coast in the United States, about 50 miles southeast of Houston, Texas. The entire island, with the exception of the little Jamaica Beach, Texas, is within the city limits of the City of Galveston, Texas....
 
64 166 58,175
Matagorda Island
Matagorda Island

Matagorda Island, Spanish for "thick brush," is a 38 mile long barrier island on the Texas Gulf coast, about seven miles south of Port O'Connor, Texas, in the southernmost part of Calhoun County, Texas....
 
61 157 0
Great Sitkin Island
Great Sitkin Island

Great Sitkin Island is a volcano island in the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The island covers a total area of and lies slightly north of a group islands which are located between Adak Island and Atka Island....
 
60 156 0
Staten Island
Staten Island

Staten Island is a borough of New York City, situated almost entirely on the island of the same name in the extreme southwest part of the city....
 
59 153 443,728
Deer Island
Deer Island (Alaska)

Deer Island is an island located at the mouth of Cold Bay on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula in the state of Alaska, United States. It lies about five miles directly south of the mainland city of King Cove, Alaska, across Deer Passage....
 
58 152 ?
Duke Island
Duke Island

Duke Island is an island in the Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. The island stands at , just north of the Canadian border....
 
57 149 ?
Orcas Island
Orcas Island

Orcas Island is the largest of the San Juan Islands, which are located in the northwestern corner of Washington state in San Juan County, Washington, Washington....
 
57 148 4,453
San Clemente Island
San Clemente Island

San Clemente Island or SCI is the southernmost of the Channel Islands of California. It is owned and operated by the United States Navy, and is a part of Los Angeles County, California....
 
57 147 0
Uganik Island
Uganik Island

Uganik Island is an island lying just off the west coast of Kodiak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago of Alaska, United States. The island has a land area of 146.7 km? and is uninhabited....
 
57 147 0
Stuart Island
Stuart Island, Alaska

Stuart Island is a small island on the southeast side of the Norton Sound of Alaska. The island is about long and wide with a land area of 135.185 km? and had no resident population at the United States Census, 2000....
 
56 145 0
Beaver Island
Beaver Island (Lake Michigan)

Beaver Island is the largest island in Lake Michigan and part of the Beaver Island archipelago. Once home to a unique American monarchy, the island is now a popular tourist and vacation destination....
 
55 144 551
San Juan Island
San Juan Island

San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States. It has a land area of 142.59 km? and a population of 6,822 as of the United States Census, 2000....
 
55 143 6,822
Suemez Island
Suemez Island

Suemez Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies just off the west-central coast of Prince of Wales Island....
 
52 135 0
Tutuila
Tutuila

Tutuila is the main or largest island of American Samoa, and the third largest island in the Samoan Islands chain. The island is distinctive in the Pacific Ocean for its large, natural harbor—Pago Pago Harbor—on which the capital of American Samoa, Pago Pago, is located....
 
52 135 55,876
Esther Island
Esther Island (Alaska)

Esther Island is an island in the northwestern part of Prince William Sound of the Gulf of Alaska in the state of Alaska, USA. It has a land area of 127.336 km? and a resident population of 31 persons as of the United States Census, 2000....
 
52 133 31
Vieques
Vieques, Puerto Rico

Vieques , in full Isla de Vieques, is an Islands of Puerto Rico-Municipalities of Puerto Rico of Puerto Rico in the northeastern Caribbean....
 
51 132 9,106
Sanak Island 50 128 0
Sugar Island
Sugar Island (Michigan)

Sugar Island is an island in the U.S. state of Michigan in the St. Marys River between the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario. The entire island constitutes Sugar Island Township, Michigan in Chippewa County, Michigan at the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan....
 
49 128 683
Bois Blanc Island
Bois Blanc Island (Michigan)

Bois Blanc Island is coterminous with Bois Blanc Township, Michigan, Mackinac County, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. The island covers about and is about 12 miles long, 6 miles wide and has 6 lakes....
 
49 127 71
Nantucket
Nantucket, Massachusetts

Nantucket is an island 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck Island and Muskeget, it constitutes the New England town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated....
 
48 124 9,520
Kagalaska Island
Kagalaska Island

Kagalaska Island is an island in the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The island is 14.5 km in length and 11.3 km wide. It is separated from Adak Island by the Kagalaska Strait which is a few hundred meters wide....
 
45 116 0
Kahoolawe
Kahoolawe

Kahoolawe is the smallest of the 8 main volcanic islands in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located 7 miles southwest of Maui and southeast of Lanai and is long by across....
 
45 116 0
Long Island
Long Island (Alaska)

Long Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies across the Kaigani Strait from the southern portion of Dall Island and west of the southern part of Prince of Wales Island....
 
45 115 0
Wadmalaw Island 42 109 2,611
Baker Island
Baker Island (Alaska)

Baker Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, USA. It lies off the central west coast of Prince of Wales Island ....
 
41 105 ?
Dolgoi Island
Dolgoi Island

Dolgoi Island is the largest of the Pavlof Islands lying off the southwest coast of the state of Alaska in the United States. It has a land area of 107.4 km? and is uninhabited....
 
41 107 ?
Fidalgo Island
Fidalgo Island

Fidalgo Island is an island in Skagit County, Washington, located about north of Seattle. To the east, it is separated from the mainland by the Swinomish Channel, and from Whidbey Island to the south by Deception Pass....
 
41 107 20,700
Camano Island
Camano Island

Camano Island is a large island in the Possession Sound portion of Puget Sound, located in Island County, Washington, between Whidbey Island and the mainland....
 
40 105 13,358
Saint Paul Island
Saint Paul Island, Alaska

Saint Paul Island is one of the Pribilof Islands, a group of four volcanic islands located in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska. The city of St....
 
40 104 532
Sedanka Island
Sedanka Island

Sedanka Island is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is long and is situated off the northeast coast of Unalaska Island....
 
40 103 0
Aquidneck Island
Aquidneck Island

Aquidneck Island is the largest island in Narragansett Bay. Its official name, Rhode Island, is used on USGS topographic and many other maps, but it is known locally as Aquidneck Island, in part to distinguish it from the Rhode Island, of which it is part....
 
38 98 60,870
Vashon Island
Vashon Island

Vashon is a census-designated place in King County, Washington, Washington, United States. It covers an island alternately called Vashon-Maury Island or Vashon Island, the largest island in Puget Sound south of Admiralty Inlet....
 
37 96 10,123
Hatteras Island
Hatteras Island

Hatteras Island is a barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean that runs parallel to the coast of North Carolina, forming a bend at Cape Hatteras. It is part of North Carolina's Outer Banks and includes the towns of Rodanthe, North Carolina, Waves, North Carolina, Salvo, North Carolina, Avon, North Carolina, Buxton, North Carolina, Frisco, North...
 
34 86 4,001
Sauvie Island
Sauvie Island

Sauvie Island, in the U.S. state of Oregon, originally Wapato Island or Wappatoo Island, is the largest island along the Columbia River, at 26,000 acres ....
 
33 85 1,078
Grand Isle
Grand Isle, Vermont

Grand Isle is a New England town in Grand Isle County, Vermont, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,955 at the United States Census, 2000....
 
32 82 3,651
Kent Island
Kent Island, Maryland

Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay, and a historic place in Maryland. To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, Maryland, by roughly four miles of water....
 
32 82 16,812
Pine Island
Pine Island (Lee County, Florida)

Pine Island is an island located in Lee County, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico coast of southwest Florida. The Intracoastal Waterway passes through Pine Island Sound, to the west of the island....
 
32 82 8,235
Lopez Island
Lopez Island

Lopez Island is the third largest of the United States San Juan Islands, and the first stop of four on the Washington State Ferries' San Juan Islands run....
 
30 77 2,177
Grand Island
Grand Island, New York

Grand Island is a town and an island in Erie County, New York, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 18,621. The current town name derives from the French name "La Grande Ile," as Grand Island is the largest island in the Niagara River....
 
29 73 18,621
Bainbridge Island 28 72 20,308
Antelope Island
Antelope Island

Antelope Island, with an area of , is the largest island in the Great Salt Lake, the largest lake in the Western United States, and the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere....
 
27 68 0
Saint Thomas
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea, a county and constituent Districts and sub-districts of the United States Virgin Islands of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States....
 
27 70 51,181
Washington Island
Washington Island (Wisconsin)

Washington Island is an island located about 7 miles northeast of the tip of Door Peninsula in Door County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin. The island has a year-round population of 660 people ....
 
24 61 600
Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
 
23 60 1,537,195
San Nicolas Island
San Nicolas Island

San Nicolas Island is the most remote of California's Channel Islands . It is part of Ventura County. The 14,562 acre island is currently controlled by the United States Navy and is used as a weapons testing and training facility....
 
23 59 0
Grand Island 22 58 45
North Manitou Island
North Manitou Island

North Manitou Island is located in Lake Michigan, approximately west-northwest of Leland, Michigan, Michigan. It is nearly eight miles long and over four miles wide, with of shoreline....
 
22 58 0
Neebish Island
Neebish Island

Neebish Island is an island in the U.S. state of Michigan in the St. Marys River between the United States and the Canadian province of Ontario....
 
22 58 66


See also

  • List of islands of the United States
    List of islands of the United States

    This is a partial list of islands of the United States, including its insular areas, which are listed at the end....
  • List of islands by area
    List of islands by area

    This is a list of islands in the world ordered by area. It includes all islands with an area greater than 2,500 km? , and several other islands over 500 km? ....