How many islands in the world are there?

Question

I was just wondering how many islands in the world there were (the ones that people actually live on) and is there a website or something where i can see a list of all the names of them?

Answer 1

No idea but Indonesia alone consist of something like 13.000 islands in all if i remember rightly ...

Answer 2

In the world, 700 million people live on about 9,000 inhabited islands.

Answer 3

im guessing many many thousands.

probably no such list exists