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Sweden has more islands than any other country

Around 268,000 islands sit within its borders, most of them tiny

Swedish statistics count roughly 268,000 islands, the great majority of them uninhabited skerries along the Baltic coast. Finland and Norway follow, and all three are shaped by post-glacial rebound, which keeps raising land that was pressed down by ice sheets. Canada has more coastline but far fewer counted islands.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Around 268,000 islands sit within its borders, most of them tiny. The figure is taken from Statistics Sweden, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.