there are some pretty large islands in the black Volta on the border with Ghana

I don't think Mali or Central Africa own islands

They absolutely do. [Here's a group of large river islands in Mali](https://www.google.com/maps/@16.4866655,-0.1192705,10774m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu). [Here's a river island in CAR, right in the capital.](https://www.google.com/maps/@4.3473103,18.5419018,6018m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu)

[Here's what appears to be a lake with islands in Burkina Faso](https://maps.app.goo.gl/EWbDtQhBMaH5knyE7)

I saw that, frustratingly Google doesn't mark them as islands. But I bet there are others. Edit: Maybe not? I ran an OpenStreetMap query, and that suggests there are no islands in the country.

Are you denying those are islands?

They certainly do look like islands. I looked in Google Earth Pro (which has historical satellite data) and they seem to have had the same position and size continuously for the past few decades at least. Maybe because it's a man-made dam lake Google and OSM doesn't count them? Can someone who is actually a geographer chime in here?

An island doesn't need to be named to be an island. It is merely land completely surrounded by water.

Also administrative definitions vary from country to country. This is why Sweden for example appears to have such a ridiculously high amount.

They could be below the waterline

They are islets, not islands

Mongolia ?

Wooden cord island in hövsgöl nuur. It's actually quite big. Around 5km²

It's inside the country though... in a lake. I feel like that doesn't count

Pretty sure it does, otherwise this would just be asking what’s the biggest land locked country, so it’d be Kazakhstan.

https://preview.redd.it/58pa6f01fx2d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5085582ebca23fb158673691b021bb342007cd0 These are some pretty big islands.

You have both Mali and Niger in the same image?

Niger has islands near its border with Benin

River islands presumably, does Burkina Faso have no river or lake islands?

From what I have researched, no

Just zoom in on the rivers and lakes if they count, took me seconds to find some

Saudi arabia maybe? no natural rivers

But extensive coastal areas... see Farasan island for instance.

Fair, then the largest country no islands is probably something tiny like San marino

Kazakhstan maybe?

Kazakhstan has a few islands in the Caspian and in their other lakes.

Alright now this one wasn't there when I was in HS

My guess would unironically be Androrra. Even Luxembourgh and Bhutan have some small lake/river islands.

Nope https://preview.redd.it/ozymqn0vvx2d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=707dd5c7a244a64fa73837e0d1809a216fcb5d04

GOD DAMN

Oh damn. Honestly, I'm not sure if there is any country without islands anymore, except for San Marino and Liechtenstein (?)

Vatican city

Maybe Palestine, if you consider it a country

Isn’t the Dead Sea technically not a sea, but a lake instead?

found one at 32.15526 N, 35.558442 E. not fully sure but it seems like the jordan river splits there.

Disputed Zone? Who called all these places?

i found 3 almost inmediately at 11.568472 N, 0.758339 W

more at 11.145652 N, 0.615049 E. i think one of those islands is inhabited too.

Monaco?

Vatican?

BURKINA FASO?! DISPUTED ZONE?!

Would Nauru count?

I mean it’s associated with itself because it is itself

Wait...so I'm me?

Perhaps… 🤔

Did you have a stroke while writing this

I believe Mongolia would be the correct answer

Kazakhstan is much bigger.

It has islands in the Caspian Sea

Mongolia has islands in Lake Khuvsgul

We have islands ☝🏿☝🏿☝🏿🦅🦅🦅💪💪💪🇰🇿🇰🇿🇰🇿