What is the term for a group of islands?
Show answer
Archipelago
The word comes from the Greek 'arkhi' (chief) and 'pelagos' (sea). Examples of archipelagos include Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Would you remember this in 6 months?
Trivia Forge uses spaced repetition so facts stick. Free, no signup needed.
Practice Geography questions →More Geography trivia
- What is the term for a large, basin-like depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses, which may later fill with water?
- What is the term for the movement of people from rural areas to cities?
- What land bridge between Africa and Asia is the only part of Egypt's territory located on the Asian continent?
- What landlocked West African country shares its name with a major river and contains a large population of Hausa people along its southern border with Nigeria?
- What large Northern European peninsula contains the mainland part of Denmark and the German state of Schleswig-Holstein?
- What large region in the northernmost part of Fennoscandia spans Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia and serves as the traditional home of the Sámi people?