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[1] [2] Japan is the fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia. According to a survey conducted by the Japan Coast Guard in 1987, the number of islands in Japan was 6,852. At that time, the survey only ...
Japan has 14,125 [1] islands, approximately 430 islands are inhabited. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, or claimed by, Japan . List
The Japanese archipelago (Japanese: 日本列島, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan. [1] It extends over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) [2] from the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast to the East China and Philippine seas in the southwest along the Pacific coast of the Eurasian continent, and consists of three island arcs from north to south: the Northeastern ...
Portal: Japan/Island Map. 1 language. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Islands of Japan
In the Western world, Donald Richie wrote a literary nonfiction travelogue called The Inland Sea relating a journey along the sea, beginning from the East at Himeji and ending at Miyajima in the West, close to Hiroshima, going from island to island, exploring the landscape, meeting and discussing with local people, as well as musing on Japanese ...
The islands, their flora, and their fauna are protected as a Natural Monument, [3] Biotic Community Protection Forest, [2] Special Wildlife Protection Area, [4] [5] and Important Bird Area. [6] [7] Birds found on the islands include the Japanese murrelet, streaked shearwater, brown booby, Ryukyu robin, Japanese wood pigeon, and Pleske's ...
Enoshima, Island of E (江の島) is a small offshore island, about 4 km (2.5 mi) in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River which flows into the Sagami Bay of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Administratively, Enoshima is part of the mainland city of Fujisawa , and is linked to the Katase section of that city by a 389-metre-long (1,276 ft ...
The island has an area of 592.17 square kilometres (228.64 square miles). [1] It is the largest island of the Seto Inland Sea. As a transit between those two larger islands, Awaji originally means "the road to Awa", [2] the historic province bordering the Shikoku side of the Naruto Strait, now part of Tokushima Prefecture.