No Longer Islands or Artificially Created Islands, By Size
- Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan - 2,300 km2 (890 sq mi). Became a peninsula in 2002 due to the shrinking of the sea, so no longer appears in rankings.
- Sääminginsalo in Saimaa, Finland - 1,069 km2 (413 sq mi). Saimaa is sometimes referred to as a "lake system", and Sääminginsalo is surrounded by three separately named lakes (Haukivesi, Puruvesi and Pihlajavesi) that are at the same level, and by an artificial canal, Raikuun kanava, built in 1750's. Since it is detached from land by a canal, it is debatable whether Sääminginsalo can be defined as an island.
- Eastern and Southern Flevoland, 948 km2 (366 sq mi) is a man-made polder of the now-freshwater lake IJsselmeer, Netherlands, and is the largest man-made island in the world
- Samosir in Lake Toba, Indonesia - 630 km2 (240 sq mi). Since it is detached from the mainland by a canal, it is debatable whether it can be defined as an island
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