Sweden has the most islands with 221,800, the majority of which are uninhabited. Even the capital of Stockholm is built across a 14-island archipelago with more than 50 bridges.
One of earth’s northernmost countries, Sweden has 221,831 counted islands, about 24,000 of which are open to the public through the country’s Right of Public Access policy, which allows anyone to hike through lush forests and fields, and forage for berries or mushrooms without asking landowner permission, so long as they show respect for the natural environment and private property. Though Sweden is the country with the most islands in the world, less than 1,000 of them are inhabited.
The country’s thousands of islands can be found largely along its eastern coastline from the far north to the deep south, with some also located off Sweden’s west coast. The most renowned is the Stockholm Archipelago, which is comprised of nearly 30,000 islands, islets, and rocks between Öregrund in the north and Landsort in the south. The Gothenburg Archipelago lines the west coast along with the Bohuslän Archipelago, which is made up of more than 8,000 islands and islets and has been ranked as the seventh-most beautiful natural wilderness area in the world by CNN Travel.
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