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Tsushima Island is located west of the Kanmon Strait at a latitude between Honshu and Kyushu of the Japanese mainland. The Korea Strait splits at the Tsushima Island Archipelago into two channels; the wider channel, closer to the mainland of Japan, is the Tsushima Strait.
Tsushima City-hall. Tsushima (対馬市, Tsushima-shi) is an island city grouped in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.It is the only city of Tsushima Subprefecture and it encompasses all of Tsushima Island, which lies in the Tsushima Strait north of Nagasaki on the western side of Kyushu, the southernmost mainland island of Japan.
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 strait is the channel to the east and southeast of Tsushima Island, with the Japanese islands of Honshu to the east and northeast, and Kyushu and the Gotō Islands to the south and southeast. It is narrowest south-east of Shimono-shima , the south end of Tsushima Island proper, constricted there by nearby Iki Island , which lies wholly in ...
Ghost of Tsushima, a 2020 action-adventure game by Sucker Punch Productions; Tsushima brown frog, a species of frog endemic to Japan; Tsushima cat, a wild cat; Tsushima Current, a branch of the Kuroshio Current into the Sea of Japan; Tsushima dialect, a Japanese dialect spoken on Tsushima Island of Nagasaki Prefecture
Iki Island (壱岐島, Iki-no-shima), or the Iki Archipelago (壱岐諸島, Iki-shotō), is an archipelago in the Tsushima Strait, [1] which is administered as the city of Iki in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The islands have a total area of 138.46 square kilometres (53.46 sq mi) with a total population of 28,008.
Tsushima Province (対馬国, Tsushima-no kuni) was an old province of Japan on Tsushima Island which occupied the area corresponding to modern-day Tsushima, Nagasaki. [1] It was sometimes called Taishū ( 対州 ) .
1946: SCAP lists Tsushima as part of Japan [6] 1950: Korea claims the island [7] 1951: South Korea sets aside claim to Tsushima [8] 1974: South Korea-Japan treaty reconfirms Tsushima is Japanese island [10] 2005: South Korean city Changwon City claims the island as South Korean territory. [16] [17]