List of artificial islands


This is a list of artificial islands.

Table

NameCountryArea PopulationNotes
FlevopolderNetherlands

Australia

Bahamas

Bahrain

Brazil

Bulgaria

  • In Varna, a portion of the southern industrial and port zone on a 2-km wide isthmus between the Black Sea and Lake Varna became an artificial island in 1976 when it became separated from the shore by two navigable canals.

Colombia

Bolívar Department

China

Hong Kong

;Former

Macau

*

Egypt

Germany

India

Ireland

Japan

*

Kuwait

Malaysia

Maldives

Mexico

Montenegro

Netherlands

Oman

  • Al Mouj Muscat

Panama

  • Ocean Reef Islands

Peru/Bolivia

Qatar

Russia

Nineteen artificial islands in the Gulf of Finland for fortresses.

Saudi Arabia

Solomon Islands

South Africa

  • Island in Kamfers Dam, constructed as a flamingo breeding island

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

*

Tonga

United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi

Dubai

Ras al Khaimah

  • Bal al Bahr
  • Mina al Arab
  • Al Hamra Village

Sharjah

Fujairah

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

United States

Alabama

  • Gaillard Island, is an artificially created island located in Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama. It was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, using sand and mud dredged from the Mobile Bay ship channel and elsewhere. The island is an important site for colonial nesting seabirds and shore birds in coastal Alabama and has been the only nesting site for brown pelicans in Alabama - first discovered in 1983.

Alaska

California

Florida

Illinois

Kentucky

New Jersey/Delaware

New York

Washington

Wisconsin

Venezuela

Zulia State

  • Isla La Salina
  • Isla Dorada

Anzoátegui State

  • Isla Paraíso

Land disconnected by artificial canals

Former hilltops in artificial lakes