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Map of Sakhalin with parallels showing the division at the 50th parallel north with the Karafuto Prefecture highlighted in red The Karafuto Prefectural Office in Toyohara. Japanese settlement on Sakhalin dates to at least the Edo period. Ōtomari was established in 1679, and cartographers of the Matsumae domain mapped the island, and named it ...
Sakhalin Island with Karafuto Prefecture highlighted Japanese forces invaded and occupied Sakhalin in the closing stages of the Russo-Japanese War . In accordance with the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905, the southern part of the island below the 50th parallel north reverted to Japan, while Russia retained the northern three-fifths.
The first Europeans to explore the waters around Sakhalin Island were Ivan Moskvitin and Martin Gerritz de Vries in the mid-1600s, Jean-François de La Pérouse in 1787 and Adam Johann von Krusenstern in 1805. Early maps of Sakhalin reflect the uncertainty of the age as to whether or not the land mass was attached to the Asian continent.
Karafuto was a former Japanese prefecture in the southern part of Sakhalin island, from 1905 to 1945. Islands. Names in italics are the current Russian names.
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Map of Russia with Sakhalin Oblast highlighted. This is a list of rural localities in Sakhalin Oblast. Sakhalin Oblast (Russian: Сахали́нская о́бласть, romanized: Sahalínskaja óblastj, IPA: [səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ]) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East.
Between 1905 and 1945, the Japanese Empire administered the southern half of Sakhalin, using the name Karafuto (樺太). The area was designated a chō (廳), the same term given to Hokkaidō at the time. It is commonly referred to as Karafuto Prefecture in English.
Sakhalin Oblast, Russia: Administrative center: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk: As of 2010: [1] Number of districts (районы) 17 Number of cities/towns (города) 15 Number of urban-type settlements (посёлки городского типа) 5 Number of rural administrations, rural okrugs, rural territorial formations, and selsovets