A hand-ranked Top 100 for this topic, ordered from the most obvious names near #1 to the hidden gems near #100.
This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.
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The full Top 100
- #1Greenland
- #2New Guinea
- #3Borneo
- #4Madagascar
- #5Baffin Island
- #6Sumatra
- #7Honshu
- #8Victoria Island
- #9Great Britain
- #10Ellesmere Island
- #11Sulawesi
- #12South Island
- #13Java
- #14North Island
- #15Luzon
- #16Newfoundland
- #17Cuba
- #18Iceland
- #19Mindanao
- #20Ireland
- #21Hokkaido
- #22Hispaniola
- #23Sakhalin
- #24Banks Island
- #25Sri Lanka
- #26Tasmania
- #27Devon Island
- #28Alexander Island
- #29Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
- #30Severny Island
- #31Berkner Island
- #32Axel Heiberg Island
- #33Melville Island
- #34Southampton Island
- #35Marajó
- #36Spitsbergen
- #37Kyushu
- #38Taiwan
- #39New Britain
- #40Prince of Wales Island (Canada)
- #41Yuzhny Island
- #42Hainan
- #43Vancouver Island
- #44Timor
- #45Sicily
- #46Somerset Island
- #47Kotelny Island
- #48Sardinia
- #49Bananal Island
- #50Shikoku
- #51Halmahera
- #52Seram
- #53Grande Terre
- #54Bathurst Island
- #55Prince Patrick Island
- #56Thurston Island
- #57Nordaustlandet
- #58Sumbawa
- #59October Revolution Island
- #60Flores
- #61King William Island
- #62Negros
- #63Samar
- #64Palawan
- #65Panay
- #66Tupinambarana (Northern part)
- #67Yos Sudarso
- #68Bangka
- #69Bolshevik Island
- #70Jamaica
- #71Bylot Island
- #72Sumba
- #73Mindoro
- #74Viti Levu
- #75Hawaiʻi
- #76Cape Breton Island
- #77Prince Charles Island
- #78Bougainville Island
- #79Kodiak Island
- #80Cyprus
- #81Puerto Rico
- #82Komsomolets Island
- #83Corsica
- #84Disko Island
- #85Carney Island
- #86Chiloé Island
- #87Buru
- #88Crete
- #89Anticosti Island
- #90Roosevelt Island
- #91Wrangel Island
- #92Tupinambarana (Western part)
- #93New Ireland
- #94Leyte
- #95East Falkland
- #96Zealand
- #97Cornwallis Island
- #98Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)
- #99Kerguelen
- #100Siple Island
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