Number of Islands

CodingPhone Screen, OnsiteSoftware Engineer, Machine Learning EngineerReported Mar, 2026High Frequency

Examples

Example 1:

Input: grid = [ ["0","1","1","1","0"], ["0","1","0","1","0"], ["1","1","0","0","0"], ["0","0","0","0","0"] ]

Output: 1

Example 2:

Input: grid = [ ["1","1","0","0","1"], ["1","1","0","0","1"], ["0","0","1","0","0"], ["0","0","0","1","1"] ]

Output: 3

Constraints

Discussion

Given a 2D grid grid where '1' represents land and '0' represents water, count and return the number of islands.

An island is formed by connecting adjacent lands horizontally or vertically and is surrounded by water. You may assume water is surrounding the grid (i.e., all the edges are water).

1 <= grid.length, grid[i].length <= 100

grid[i][j] is '0' or '1'.