archipelago

Example Sentences

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Rage over so-called ghost infrastructure projects has been building for months in the archipelago country of 116 million, where entire towns were buried in floodwaters driven by powerful typhoons in the past year.

From Barron's

Scientists expected the opposite, but polar bears in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have become fatter and healthier since the early 1990s, all while sea ice has steadily declined due to climate change.

From BBC

The Philippines - an archipelago nation of 7,100 islands - has a long history of maritime disasters involving inter-island ferries.

From BBC

The archipelago nation on January 15 became the third country in Southeast Asia -- following Indonesia and Malaysia -- to block the chatbot amid a global backlash.

From Barron's

The UK will hand sovereignty of the archipelago back to Mauritius, but it will lease Diego Garcia for a period of 99 years - at an average cost of £101m a year.

From BBC