List of islands of Sweden

This is a list of islands of Sweden. A 2013 statistics report concluded that there are 267,570 islands in Sweden, though less than 1,000 of these are inhabited.[1] The total area of the islands is 1.2 million hectares, which corresponds to 3% percent of the total land area of Sweden. Most of the islands are in the Baltic Sea regions of the Bay of Bothnia and the Bothnian Sea.[1]

Rough population statistics are from 2015.

Ordered by size

Island Area (km2) Area (sq mi) Population
Gotland 2,994 1,156 61,023
Öland 1,342 518 25,846
Orust 346 134 15,000
Hisingen 199 77 176,047
Värmdö 181 70 48,000
Tjörn 148 57 15,000
Väddö and Björkö 128 49 1,700
Fårö 113 44 500
Selaön 95 37 1,800
Gräsö 93 36 800
Svartsjölandet 82 32 8,700
Hertsön 73 28 22,000
Alnön 68 26 8,298
Ekerö and Munsö 68 26 11,524
Tosterön-Aspön 66 25 3,600
Ingarö 63 24 6,900
Ljusterö 62 24 1,500
Torsö 62 24 520
Ammerön 60 23 100
Kållandsö 57 22 1,100

Other well-known islands

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "3 percent of Sweden's land area consists of islands". Statistiska Centralbyrån. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
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