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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 ...
Geographically isolated islands are included as well. ... The World (artificial) Along the coast of Australia ... Japan 125,950,000 Sakhalin 498,000 Kuril Islands 19,434
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 ...
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
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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 ...
Awaji Island (淡路島, Awaji-shima) is an island in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea between the islands of Honshū and Shikoku. 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.
Japan is shown on the map at the beginning of part III, [1] which also shows the island of "Yesso" (i.e. Hokkaido), "Stats island" and "Companys Land" to the north.. The map also marks the Vries Strait and Cape Patience, though this is shown on the northeast coast of Yesso, rather than as part of Sakhalin, which was little-known in Swift’s t