The European Union has more than 4,000 islands

Omissions

• The Commission's figure of 'more than 4,000 islands' refers to INHABITED EU islands (per the accompanying analytical overview), which is the standard basis for the statistic; the total number of islands including uninhabited ones would be far larger.
• The claim is a lower bound ('more than 4,000'), which the official data supports; the exact total is not given as a precise number by the Commission.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — Regional Policy Newsroom: 'Commission presents first-ever EU strategies for islands and coastal communities'17 million people living on more than 4,000 islands across 16 EU Member States; 95 million people living along the 70,000 km of EU coastlines.
• PrimaryEuropean Commission — 'Islands of the European Union: analytical overview of EU islands' (DG REGIO)It provides a comprehensive socio-economic assessment of more than 4000 EU inhabited islands.