| 南岛民族 | nán dǎo mín zú | Austronesian |
| 南极洲半岛 | Nán jí zhōu bàn dǎo | the Antarctic Peninsula (jutting out towards South America) |
| 南沙群岛 | Nán shā qún dǎo | Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam |
| 南澳岛 | Nán ào dǎo | Nan'ao Island in Shantou prefecture 汕头, Guangdong province |
| 南西诸岛 | Nán xī zhū dǎo | Ryukyu islands; Okinawa 冲绳 and other islands of modern Japan |
| 印度支那半岛 | Yìn dù zhī nà bàn dǎo | Indo-China peninsula (old term, esp. colonial period); now written 中南半岛 |
| 印支半岛 | Yìn zhī bàn dǎo | Indo-China peninsula (abbr. for colonial term 印度支那半岛); now written 中南半岛 |
| 史丹顿岛 | Shǐ dān dùn dǎo | Staten Island, borough of New York City |
| 吉之岛 | Jí zhī dǎo | JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets |
| 吉尔伯特群岛 | Jí ěr bó tè qún dǎo | Gilbert Islands |
| 吕宋岛 | Lǚ sòng dǎo | Luzon Island, north Philippines |
| 严岛 | Yán dǎo | Itsukushima island in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, with a famous shrine |
| 严岛神社 | Yán dǎo shén shè | Itsukujima shrine in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan |
| 埃利斯岛 | Āi lì sī Dǎo | Ellis Island |
| 城市热岛 | chéng shì rè dǎo | city heat island (i.e. large city centers are hotter) |
| 堪察加半岛 | kān chá jiā bàn dǎo | Kamchatka peninsula |
| 塔斯曼尼亚岛 | Tǎ sī màn ní yà dǎo | Tasmania |
| 塞舌尔群岛 | Sài shé ěr qún dǎo | the Seychelles |
| 夏威夷岛 | Xià wēi yí dǎo | Hawaii island |
| 大加那利岛 | dà jiā nà lì dǎo | Gran Canaria (in the Canary islands) |
| 大安的列斯群岛 | Dà ān dì liè sī qún dǎo | Greater Antilles, Caribbean archipelago |
| 大乌苏里岛 | Dà wū sū lǐ dǎo | Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk; same as Heixiazi Island 黑瞎子岛 |
| 奥尔德尼岛 | Ào ěr dé ní dǎo | Alderney (Channel Islands) |
| 奥兰群岛 | Ào lán qún dǎo | Åland Islands, Finland |
| 孤岛 | gū dǎo | isolated region |
| 安提瓜岛 | Ān tí guā dǎo | Antigua |
| 安达曼岛 | Ān dá màn dǎo | Andaman islands; variant of 安达曼群岛 |
| 安达曼群岛 | Ān dá màn qún dǎo | Andaman islands |
| 对岛 | Duì dǎo | Tsushima islands, between Japan and South Korea |
| 对马岛 | Duì mǎ dǎo | Tsushima island, between Japan and South Korea |
| 小岛 | xiǎo dǎo | isle |
| 尖阁列岛 | Jiān gé liè dǎo | Senkaku Islands (Japanese name for Diaoyu Islands), also known as the Pinnacle Islands |
| 尤卡坦半岛 | Yóu kǎ tǎn bàn dǎo | Yucatan peninsula (Mexico) |
| 岛弧 | dǎo hú | island arc (geology); forearc |
| 岛盖部 | dǎo gài bù | pars perculairs |
| 崇明岛 | Chóng míng dǎo | Chongming |
| 嵊泗列岛 | Shèng sì liè dǎo | Shengsi islands, making up Shengsi county in Zhoushan 舟山, Zhejiang |
| 巴厘岛 | Bā lí dǎo | Bali (island in Indonesia) |
| 巴坦群岛 | Bā tǎn qún dǎo | Batan Islands in Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines |
| 巴布延群岛 | Bā bù yán qún dǎo | Babuyan Archipelago in Luzon Strait north of the Philippines |
| 巴尔干半岛 | Bā ěr gān Bàn dǎo | Balkan Peninsula |
| 巴里岛 | Bā lǐ dǎo | island of Bali |
| 布干维尔岛 | Bù gān wéi ěr dǎo | Bougainville island, Papua New Guinea |
| 帝汶岛 | Dì wèn dǎo | Timor island |
| 库克群岛 | Kù kè qún dǎo | Cook Islands |
| 库页岛 | Kù yè dǎo | Kuril Islands (chain between Kamchatka and Hokkaido) |
| 广岛 | Guǎng dǎo | Hiroshima, Japan |
| 广岛县 | Guǎng dǎo xiàn | Hiroshima prefecture, Japan |
| 延坪岛 | Yán píng dǎo | Yeonpyeong island on Yellow Sea coast of Korea |
| 弗洛勒斯岛 | Fú luò lēi sī dǎo | Flores, Indonesia; also written 弗洛里斯岛 |
