Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – 2,300 km2 (890 sq mi).[1] Originally only 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi), the island grew rapidly from the 1960s until mid-2001, as the shrinking of the Aral Sea caused the water to recede from the land around the original island, until the moment when that same process caused the expanded island to connect to the mainland. By 2014, what used to be an island had become merely a part of the extensive Aralkum Desert. Sääminginsalo in Saimaa, Finland – 1,069 km2 (413 sq mi).