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The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands [a] are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. [1] The islands stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 mi) northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean .
name = Kuril Islands Name used in the default map caption; image = Kurily.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" image1 = Relief Map of Kurily.png An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = 51.3837 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees ...
South Kuril/Chishima Islands (Northern Territories), Kuril/Chishima Islands, and South Sakhalin [1] [50] Russia Japan: After the end of World War II, the Japanese government renounced its claims of the sovereignty over the Kuril Islands (except for a few islands in the south) and South Sakhalin in The Treaty of San Francisco. [51]
Disputed islands in question: Habomai Islands, Shikotan, Kunashiri (Kunashir) and Etorofu (Iturup) Southern Kuril islands seen from the International Space Station The Kuril Islands dispute , known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan , is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril ...
Kunashir is separated by the Catherine Strait (Kunashiri Suido) from the island of Iturup, located 22 km northeast; Kunashir Strait (upper Nemuro Kaikyo) from Shiretoko Peninsula (Hokkaido Island), located 25 km to the west; Izmena Strait (Notsuke Suido or lower Nemuro Kaikyo) from Notsuke Peninsula (Hokkaido Island), located 16 km to the southwest; and by the South Kuril Strait (Yuzhno ...
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. Ĺtomari was established in 1679, and cartographers of the Matsumae domain mapped the island, and named it ...
Mexico: 86,143 [9 ] (2022) Thailand ... countries shared the territories of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; ... visas to ethnic Japanese from South America to come to ...
Differences with its Japanese translation contributed to the controversy on what constitutes the Kuril islands, claims to which Japan renounced in 1951 by the Treaty of San Francisco. The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) is part of an ongoing, and long-standing, territorial dispute between Russia and Japan over the jurisdiction of the Kuril ...