Here’s another one: The Comarca de Guna Yala, and indigenous homeland (equivalent to a province) in Panama. Nearly all the population lives on small offshore islands off the coast. There are a couple of towns on the mainland but most people live offshore.
I thought of that, but only about 1.2 million out of over 7 million live on Hong Kong Island itself. A large majority of the population lives in Kowloon and the New Territories on the mainland.
How did you post that 20 minutes after posting it? Or, for that matter, while you were in read-only mode?
I’m thinking Anchorage. Is that correct @Acsenray ?
I’m the one asking. How am I supposed to know?
My guess is that it’s not Anchorage, because it’s more like 2,000 miles north of Minneapolis, not 200. And it doesn’t even have 400,000 people, far less than 5 million.
Here’s another: Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska. Most people live on Kodiak Island but there is a little bit of land on the mainland.
Only jtur88 could accomplish such a feat.
Whet it said “read only”, the reply button still opened a text box, so I sent this note as a test. It wasn’t sent, but went into a queue, and sent when the read-onlt spontaneously resolved.
The island question would have been Hong Komg many years ago, but not now. Same, I think, for Equatorial Guinea and Fernando Po.
Another would have beem Newport County, Rhode Island, except that counties in RI have been stripped of any administrative function.
For Equatorial Guinea, most (70 percent) of the populace lives on the mainland. The capital is on an island however. The name of the country could lead to misconceptions, as no part of the territory is actually on the Equator.
En lekker!
Equatorial Guinea belongs to the category of polities that have their capital on an island while the majority of land is on the mainland. The only others I know of in this category are Denmark, British Columbia and Newfoundland. But since Eq G is building a new capital on the mainland, it’s soon going to leave that category.
Iqaluit is the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It’s located on Baffin Island, with a population of 7700 out of the total territorial population of 35,000.
Two others, Victoria and St. John’s are on islands. Charolettetown does not really count, though, because 5he whole province is an island.
Psst, eschereal:
If we’re counting cities as “administrative divisions”, the Metropolitan City of Venice and the Comune di Venezia are centred on (drumroll) Venice, but only a minority of the population (55,000 out of 800,000+ in the Metropolitan City) lives on the historic islands.
There are probably some other examples where a city started on an island and spilled out onto the mainland.
Yeah, I came to realize the Scots love tall tales. We took the Tour of the Dead tour in Edinburgh and learned that the big hill where the cemetery is located used to be flat ground before they piled all the Black Plague corpses there.
As best I can tell by adding up the areas of islands (making a rough guess as to how much of Victoria Island is in Nunavut), it looks like more of Nunavut is on islands than the mainland. Unless I made a mistake, it’s out.
Yes, that looks good.
If you calculate the area that borders on NWT and MB – the part that you could theoretically hike or take a dogsled to without ever crossing sea ice – it looks like that is around a quarter of Nunavut. If you subtract wet spots (lakes vs ocean territory) it looks like it works out the same (maybe slightly less for the continental region).
Kind of sad, really, as they have the coolest license plates, that no one ever sees.
I always wanted a globe slash liquor cabinet. For when you want to get drunk old school on Canadian Club.