This is a list of islands in Europe ordered by population. The list is not complete and it includes random definitions of "island". Södertörn in Sweden is included, even though it is a part of the mainland only divided from it by a small canal. If the same criteria were applied generally, all of Spain and Southern France would form an island of more than 50 million people, separated from the mainland by Canal du Midi in the same way that Södertörn is separated from mainland Sweden.