Hey everyone, I'm Vexillographer, and I'm here to talk about the ten largest islands
in the world. For the purposes of this video, an island basically an area of land–a solid,
continuous area of land–completely surrounded by water. So, you can say "islands" or "landmasses",
whichever you prefer. The tenth largest island in the world is Sumatra. Sumatra is an island
located entirely in the nation of Indonesia. I grabbed the wrong flag. Indonesia. Now,
Sumatra's located just to the southwest of the Malay Peninsula in Asia. Now, Sumatra
lately has been a bit of a destination for a lot of people trying to move to better places.
That's one of the big issues around the world right now, and a lot of governments are trying
to figure out what to do with these guys. Sumatra's also an exporter of cinnamon. I
learned that from Good Eats. Anyway. The ninth largest island in the world is Baffin Island,
located entirely within the nation of Canada, and located entirely within the Canadian territory
of Nunavut. Now, if you notice Baffin Island on a map, you might think, depending on the
map projection, that it's REALLY really huge. Now, Baffin Island is really huge, but it's
not quite as big as you might think on some map projections, because it's so far north.
Now, Nunavut is home to many people who speak the Inuktitut language, and the Inuktitut
language is often written in these interesting-looking characters you might see on Baffin Island.
Number eight was what? Number eight... The eighth largest country [sic] in the world
is Madagascar, located off of the coast of Africa and entirely within the nation of Madagascar.
I don't have its flag with me right now 'cause I don't own that one. I'm still trying to
"catch 'em all", but not quite there yet. Now, Madagascar is one of the few places in
the world where certain kinds of lemurs live. What would the world be like without Madagascar
and its lemurs? Mmm. Worse off, if you ask me. The seventh largest island in the world
is Borneo. Borneo is actually shared between three countries: Brunei, the little one in
the north; Malaysia, the eastern part; and Indonesia, the huge part. The sixth largest
island in the world is New Guinea. New Guinea is shared between two countries: Indonesia
and Papua New Guinea. Indonesia administrates the western part, and Papua New Guinea administrates
the eastern part. It's north of Australia, and it looks pretty funky. They also make
mummies there. Weird. The fifth largest island in the world, or the largest depending on
your definition of island, is Greenland. It might not be totally accurate, actually, to
call Greenland one solid piece of land. Scientists have been able to take a look as to what's
underneath the big ice cap that covers most of Greenland, and it appears that Greenland
might actually be multiple islands at its bedrock foundation. So maybe Greenland is
actually Greenlands. Multiple Greenlands. But for this video, it's one. Now we're entering
into the area that people might call "continents", not necessarily "islands". Let's just call
them "landmasses" for this video. Let's move on to number 4: Australia. Australia's located
within the nation of Australia, and it's got some amazing features. It's got amazingly
weird animals, it's got amazingly weird geological rock formations, and it's got amazingly weird
names like Uluru and Purnululu and, um, Wagga Wagga. And it's also got some not-so-awesome
names like Western Australia and South Australia and Northern Territory. It's a nation of contrast.
All right, the second largest landmass in the world... I'm sorry, we skipped over 3.
The third largest landmass in the world would be Antarctica. You know, the one at the bottom
of your globe? The most southern piece of land in the world. Location of the south pole,
the Transantarctic Mountains, and some bust of Lenin I think. And a lot of penguins. Subject
of a really cool international treaty in 1959. An entire continent set aside for scientific
purposes. That's amazing. The second largest island in the world is the one this car is
parked on right now. That's right: America. And I'm not talking about the United States
of America. I'm talking about America. You know, the thing that goes all the way from
Alaska all the way to Argentina? From Chile all the way to Nova Scotia? That's one solid
landmass, not including the Panama Canal. I'm not counting canals on this thing. You
have some of the largest nations in the world, like Brazil and Argentina and Canada and of
course the United States. I actually live on America. I know some of you might call
it "the Americas"... um... okay. And the largest one in the world would be Afro-Eurasia, as
Wikipedia calls it. Afro-Eurasia: it's huge. Just look at it on a map. I don't think I
need to really specify what is so amazing about this thing. It is huge! And again, I'm
not counting canals. Suez, sorry, I don't wanna count you. And to a lesser extent, that
one in Germany. More than half of all people on Earth today live on Afro-Eurasia. That
is a huge landmass. Just look at it on a map or a globe. I mean... I don't even know if
you can see the whole thing on a globe; it's that big. So there you have it: the ten largest
islands/landmasses in the world. IN THE WORLD! Thanks for joining me. Make your own large
island/landmass at home. I've been... I've been Vexillographer... this has been Vexillographer,
and... yeah. I think I've said enough. Thank you for watching. Have an awesome day.