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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]
This template displays the image File:Sketch Map of Middle-earth.svg overlaid with clickable links to the articles for some of the locations and areas marked. As the links are mapped to the parts of the image only by pixel coordinates, the template must be manually adjusted if the image is ever altered.
Japan: Minami Torishima, Ogasawara, Tokyo Nosappu, Hokkaido (Four main islands) 153°59′E 145°49′E 14 Indonesia: Merauke: 141°05′E 15 China: Fuyuan County, Heilongjiang: 134°46′E 16 Palau: Kayangel atoll: 134°42′E 17 South Korea: The easternmost of Liancourt Rocks (disputed with Japan) Jukdo (undisputed) East point of Seokbyung-ri ...
Middle America—Mexico and the nations of Central America; often also includes the West Indies. Occasionally, Colombia and Venezuela are also included in Middle America. [3] [4] Central America—the southern region of the North American continent, comprising Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. [16]
Aman and Middle-earth were separated from each other by the Great Sea Belegaer, analogous to the Atlantic Ocean. The western continent, Aman, was the home of the Valar, and the Elves called the Eldar. [T 1] [1] Initially, the western part of Middle-earth was the subcontinent Beleriand; it was engulfed by the ocean at the end of the First Age. [1]
Physiographically, Middle America marks the territorial transition between Northern America and South America, connecting yet separating the two. [4] On the west, the Middle American mainland comprises the tapering, isthmian tract of the American landmass between the southern Rocky Mountains in the southern United States and the northern tip of ...
The Fra Mauro map upside-down to show North on top, compared to a modern satellite-based image of Earth by NASA The map is very large – the full frame measures 2.4 by 2.4 metres (8 by 8 ft). This makes Fra Mauro's mappa mundi the world's largest extant map from early modern Europe.
Around 23 million years ago, western Japan was a coastal region of the Eurasia continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled parts of Japan which become modern Chūgoku region and Kyushu eastward, opening the Sea of Japan (simultaneously with the Sea of Okhotsk) around 15–20 million years ago, with likely freshwater lake state before the sea has rushed in. [5 ...