List of islands of Sweden

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This is a list of islands of Sweden. According to 2013 statistics report there are in total 267,570 islands in Sweden, fewer than 1000 of which are inhabited. Their total area 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.

Rough population statistics are from 2015.

Ordered by size

Island Area Population
Gotland 2994 km² 57,000
Öland 1342 km² 25,000
Södertörn 1207 km² 800,000
Orust 346 km² 15,000
Hisingen 199 km² 125,000
Värmdö 181 km² 48,000
Tjörn 148 km² 15,000
Väddö and Björkö 128 km² 1,700
Fårö 113 km² 500
Selaön 95 km² 1,800
Gräsö 93 km² 800
Svartsjölandet 82 km² 8,700
Hertsön 73 km² 22,000
Alnön 68 km² 8,298
Ekerö and Munsö 68 km² 11,524
Tosterön-Aspön 66 km² 3,600
Ingarö 63 km² 6,900
Ljusterö 62 km² 1,500
Torsö 62 km² 520
Ammerön 60 km² 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.