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Which country has the most islands?

Sweden, with over 260,000

Sweden counts about 267,000 islands, most of them tiny uninhabited rocks in its lakes and archipelagos. Indonesia's 17,000-odd islands are far larger and far more populated.

Which island has the most people living on it?

Java

Java holds about 155 million people on roughly 130,000 km2, more than half of Indonesia's population on about 7 percent of its land. Honshu, second, is around 100 million.

Which country is named after a person?

The Philippines

Named in 1543 for the then Prince Philip of Spain. Bolivia and Colombia are the other well-known examples, after Simon Bolivar and Christopher Columbus.

Roughly how many islands does the Philippines have?

About 7,600

A 2016 survey raised the count to about 7,641 as better mapping found more. Only around 2,000 are inhabited.

Which national flag looks different when flown upside down, and means something else?

The Philippines

Blue is uppermost in peacetime and red on top in wartime, the only national flag with a deliberate wartime configuration. Poland and Indonesia invert into each other's flags by accident.

Which country has the largest diaspora living abroad?

India

Roughly 18 million people born in India live in another country, the largest such population. Mexico and Russia follow, though relative to population several smaller countries exceed all of them.

Vulcan Point in the Philippines was famous for being what?

An island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island

Vulcan Point sat in Crater Lake, on Volcano Island, in Lake Taal, on Luzon. The 2020 Taal eruption substantially altered the crater lake.