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Japanese islands outlined. Japan is an island country of 14,125 islands, of which approximately 260 are inhabited. [1] [2] Japan is the fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Indonesia, Madagascar, and Papua New Guinea. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia.
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 ...
The Ryukyu Islands [note 1] (琉球列島, Ryūkyū-rettō), also known as the Nansei Islands (南西諸島, Nansei-shotō, lit."Southwest Islands") or the Ryukyu Arc (琉球弧, Ryūkyū-ko), are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with ...
The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島), is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) SSE of Tokyo and 1,600 kilometers (1,000 mi) northwest of Guam. [1][2] The group as a whole has a total area of 84 square kilometers (32 sq mi) but only two of ...
List of islands of Japan by area. Japan has 14,125 [1] islands. Approximately 430 are inhabited. [2][3] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging or claimed by Japan. claimed but not controlled.
Ōmijima. Ōmijima (青海島) is an island located in the Sea of Japan, a part of the city of Nagato, Yamaguchi, Japan. It is situated within the Kita-Nagato Kaigan Quasi-National Park and is renowned for being one of the '100 Best Views in Japan.'. The island received its designation as a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 1926.
Ainu Japanese. The island of Hokkaidō is located in the north of Japan, near Russia (Sakhalin Oblast). It has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (to the west of the island), the Sea of Okhotsk (to the north), and the Pacific Ocean (to the east). The center of the island is mountainous, with volcanic plateaux.
Chichijima. Chichijima (父島) is the largest and most populous island in the Japanese archipelago of Bonin or Ogasawara Islands. Chichijima is about 240 km (150 mi) north of Iwo Jima. 23.5 km 2 (9.1 sq mi) in size, the island is home to about 2,120 people (2021). [1] Connected to the mainland only by a day-long ferry that runs a few times a ...