This is a list of islands of France, including both
metropolitan France
Metropolitan France ( or ), also known as European France (), is the area of France which is geographically in Europe and chiefly comprises #Hexagon, the mainland, popularly known as "the Hexagon" ( or ), and Corsica. This collective name for the ...
and French overseas islands.
Ranking of French islands
By area
All French islands over , ranked by decreasing area.
By population
List of the most populated French islands.
Islands of metropolitan France
Atlantic coast
List of inhabited islands of Atlantic France:
Normandy
Brittany
= Ille et Vilaine
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Côtes-d'Armor
The Côtes-d'Armor ( , ; ; , ), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord until 1990 (, ), is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.[Finistère
Finistère (, ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest, France, Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.][Morbihan
The Morbihan ( , ; ) is a departments of France, department in the administrative region of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Gulf of Morbihan, Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton ...]
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Pays de la Loire
Poitou-Charentes
Aquitaine
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Banc d'Arguin
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ÃŽle aux oiseaux (in
Arcachon Bay)
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Phare de Cordouan
Mediterranean coast
Languedoc-Roussillon
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Fort de Brescou
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur
Corsica
Islands in lakes and rivers
Alsace
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Grande ÃŽle, ''in
Strasbourg
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on the
Ill River''
ÃŽle-de-France
Midi-Pyrénées
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ÃŽle du Ramier, ''in
Toulouse
Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...
on the
Garonne
The Garonne ( , ; Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque and , ;
or ) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux � ...
River''
Pays de la Loire
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ÃŽle de Nantes
Ile or ILE may refer to:
Ile
* Ile (singer), Ile, a Puerto Rican singer
* Ile District (disambiguation), multiple places
* Ilé-Ifẹ̀, an ancient Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria
* Interlingue (ISO 639:ile), a planned language
* Isoleucine, ...
, ''in
Nantes
Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...
on the
Loire
The Loire ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône.
It rises in the so ...
River''
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Béhuard, ''in the
Loire
The Loire ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône.
It rises in the so ...
River''
Overseas
Indian Ocean
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Mayotte (in the Indian Ocean)
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ÃŽle Bambo
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ÃŽle Bouzi
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Île Brandélé
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ÃŽles Choazil
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Grande-Terre Grande Terre or Grande-Terre (, French for "large land") is a generic term used in French to designate the main island of any given archipelago. As a specific toponym, it may refer to the following:
* Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, the eastern half of ...
(or
Mahoré)
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ÃŽles Hajangoua
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Île Handréma
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ÃŽle Mtsamboro
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Petite Terre (or ÃŽle Pamanzi)
Réunion (in the Indian Ocean)
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Réunion
Réunion (; ; ; known as before 1848) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately east of the isl ...
Scattered Islands (or ''Îles Éparses'') in the Indian Ocean
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Banc du Geyser''
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Bassas da India
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Glorioso Islands
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ÃŽle Glorieuse (or Grande Glorieuse)
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ÃŽle du Lys (or Petite Glorieuse)
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Les Roches Vertes
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Europa Island
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Juan de Nova
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Tromelin Island
Tromelin Island (; , ), once called the Isle of Sand, is a low, flat island in the Indian Ocean about north of Réunion and about east of Madagascar. Both France and Mauritius claim sovereignty over the islands, and France includes it in t ...
Antarctica
''Adélie Land''
* Archipel de Pointe Géologie
* ÃŽle Alexis Carrel
* ÃŽle Buffon
* ÃŽle Claude Bernard
* ÃŽle Curie
* ÃŽle Cuvier
* ÃŽle de la Vierge
* ÃŽle des Damiers
* Île des Pétrels
* Île du Bélier
* ÃŽle du Capricorne
* ÃŽle du Gouverneur
* ÃŽle du Lion
* ÃŽle du Navigateur
* ÃŽle du Sagittaire
* ÃŽle du Scorpion
* ÃŽle du Taureau
* ÃŽle Jean Rostand
* ÃŽle Lamarck
* ÃŽle Verte
* ÃŽles des Poissons
* ÃŽlot de la Balance
* ÃŽlot de la Baleine
* ÃŽlot de la Dent
* ÃŽlot de la Selle
* ÃŽlot des Champignons
* ÃŽlot du Cancer
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Îlot du Marégraphe
* Îlot du Mystère
* ÃŽlot du Verseau
* ÃŽlot Juliette
* Îlot Roméo
* ÃŽlots des Hydrographes
* Le Mauguen
* Mid-Winter
* Rocher Gris
Crozet Islands (in the Indian Ocean)
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Îles des Apôtres
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ÃŽle aux cochons
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ÃŽle de l'Est
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ÃŽle des pingouins
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ÃŽle de la possession
Kerguelen Islands (in the Indian Ocean)
Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands (in the Indian Ocean)
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ÃŽle Amsterdam
(), also known as Amsterdam Island or New Amsterdam (), is an island of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the southern Indian Ocean that together with neighbouring ÃŽle Saint-Paul to the south forms one of the five districts of the t ...
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ÃŽle Saint-Paul
is an island forming part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (, TAAF) in the Indian Ocean, with an area of . The island is located about south of the larger Île Amsterdam , northeast of the Kerguelen Islands, and southeast of Réuni ...
North America
Caribbean
= Guadeloupe (in the Caribbean Sea)
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= Martinique (in the Caribbean Sea)
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= Saint Barthélemy (in the Caribbean Sea)
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Saint Barthélemy
Saint Barthélemy, officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, also known as St. Barts (English) or St. Barth (French), is an overseas collectivity of France in the Caribbean. The island lies about southeast of the island ...
= Saint Martin (in the Caribbean Sea)
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Saint Martin (shared with the
Kingdom of the Netherlands
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ÃŽle Tintamarre
Northern America
= Saint Pierre and Miquelon (in the North Atlantic Ocean)
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Grand Colombier
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Langlade
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L'ÃŽle-aux-Marins
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Miquelon
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ÃŽle aux Pigeons
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Saint Pierre Island
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ÃŽle aux Vainqueurs
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Green Island (Fortune), Newfoundland and Labrador ("ÃŽle Verte") (uncertain sovereignty between France and Canada)
Oceania
Clipperton Island (in the North Pacific Ocean)
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Clipperton Island
Clipperton Island ( ; ), also known as Clipperton Atoll and previously as Clipperton's Rock, is an uninhabited French coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The only French territory in the North Pacific, Clipperton is from Paris, France ...
French Polynesia (in the South Pacific Ocean)
New Caledonia (in the South Pacific Ocean)
Wallis and Futuna (in the South Pacific Ocean)
South America
French Guiana
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ÃŽles du Salut
The Salvation Islands ( French: ''ÃŽles du Salut'', so called because the missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland), sometimes mistakenly called the Safety Islands, are a group of small islands of volcanic origin about off the co ...
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ÃŽle du Diable
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ÃŽle Royale
The Salvation Islands ( French: ''ÃŽles du Salut'', so called because the missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland), sometimes mistakenly called the Safety Islands, are a group of small islands of volcanic origin about off the co ...
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ÃŽle Saint-Joseph
The Salvation Islands ( French: ''ÃŽles du Salut'', so called because the missionaries went there to escape plague on the mainland), sometimes mistakenly called the Safety Islands, are a group of small islands of volcanic origin about off the co ...
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Îlets de Rémire
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Îlet la Mère
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Constable Islands
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ÃŽle Portal
See also
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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
This is a list of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
* Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the A ...
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List of Caribbean islands
Most of the Caribbean countries are islands in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes. The largest islands include Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Some of the smaller islands are referred to as a ''rock'' or ''reef.''
''I ...
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List of French islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans
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List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
A body of water or waterbody is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet. The term most often refer ...
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List of islands in the Arctic Ocean
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List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
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List of islands in the Indian Ocean
The islands of the Indian Ocean are part of either the eastern, western, or southern areas. Some prominently large islands include Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, and Lesser Sunda Islands.
Eastern Indian Oc ...
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List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are further categorized into three major island groups: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Depending on the context, the term ''Pacific Islands'' may refer to one of several ...
References
External links
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Islands
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