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Topographic map of Okinawa Island. Okinawa is the fifth largest island of Japan. The island has an area of 1,206.99 square kilometers (466.02 sq mi). The coastline is 476 kilometers (296 mi) long. [36] The straight-line distance is about 106.6 kilometers (66.2 mi) from north to south. [37] Okinawa is in the northeastern end of Okinawa Prefecture.
[1] [2] Japan is the third-largest island country in the world, behind 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 counted islands ...
A topographic map of Japan. Japan comprises 14,125 islands extending along the Pacific coast of Asia. [78] It stretches over 3000 km (1900 mi) northeast–southwest from the Sea of Okhotsk to the East China Sea. [79] [80] The country's five main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa. [81]
Yonaguni (Japanese: 与那国島, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima, Yonaguni: Dunan-chima, older Juni-shima; [2] Yaeyama: Yunoon-zïma; Okinawan: Yunaguni-jima), one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost island of Japan, [3] lying 108 kilometers (58 nmi; 67 mi) from the east coast of Taiwan, between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.
Yakushima (屋久島) is one of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.The island, 504.88 km 2 (194.94 sq mi) in area, has a population of 13,178. Access to the island is by hydrofoil ferry (7 or 8 times a day from Kagoshima, depending on the season), slow car ferry (once or twice a day from Kagoshima), or by air to Yakushima Airport (3 to 5 times daily from Kagoshima, once daily ...
A map of Japan's major cities, main towns and selected smaller centers. Japan has a population of 126.3 million in 2019. [20] It is the eleventh-most populous country and the second-most populous island country in the world. [12] The population is clustered in urban areas along the coast, plains, and valleys. [15]
' main island '), historically known as Akitsushima (秋津島, lit. ' dragonfly island '), [3] [4] [5] is the largest of the four main islands of Japan. [6] [7] It lies between the Pacific Ocean (east) and the Sea of Japan (west). It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java ...
Amami Ōshima is the seventh-largest island in the Japanese archipelago after the four main islands, Okinawa Island and Sado Island (excluding the disputed Kuril Islands). It is located approximately 380 kilometres (210 nmi) south of the southern tip of Kyūshū and 250 kilometres (130 nmi) north of Okinawa .