Archipelago - League of The Islands

From Wikipedia, An archipelago ( ark-i-pel-ə-goh), sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- ("chief") and πέλαγος – pélagos ("sea") through the Italian arcipelago. My country, Indonesia, is the biggest archipelago country in the world.  The other largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

When I search on the internet about archipelago, I found that some countries is an archipelago, even I don't realize it. The list is included Swedish, Finland, Canada, and Maldives. And even Thailand and Croatia was on the list.

So, archipelago is not the matter about size of the lands but the quantity of the lands. Even an island only have 0,1 km square, we can called that archipelago if the number of the island is plenty. See the picture above, and every land of it you can count as one island.

Sweden, as the most plentiful achipelago country in the world, consist of more than 65,000 islands, divide into five 'little' archipelago, Stockholm archipelago: 28,945, Småland archipelago: 12,740, Öregrund archipelago: 9,722, Östergötland archipelago: 8,888, and Södermanland archipelago: 5,371. (source : Wikipedia)