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Ryukyu Islands > Related Articles
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
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| Japan |
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| にほん • 日本 • にっぽん |
| Nihon or Nippon |
| Regions |
| Hokkaido |
| Honshu |
| Tohoku |
| Akita • Aomori • Fukushima |
| Iwate • Miyagi • Yamagata |
| Kanto |
| Chiba • Gunma • Ibaraki |
| Kanagawa • Saitama • Tochigi |
| Tokyo Greater Tokyo Area |
| Chubu |
| Aichi • Fukui • Gifu |
| Ishikawa • Nagano • Niigata |
| Shizuoka • Toyama • Yamanashi |
| Kansai |
| Hyogo • Kyoto • Mie |
| Nara • Osaka |
| Shiga • Wakayama |
| Chugoku |
| Hiroshima • Okayama |
| Shimane • Tottori • Yamaguchi |
| Shikoku |
| Ehime • Kagawa |
| Kochi • Tokushima |
| Kyushu |
| Fukuoka • Kagoshima |
| Kumamoto • Miyazaki |
| Nagasaki • Oita • Saga |
| Ryukyu Islands |
| Okinawa |
| History |
| Culture |
Parent topics
- Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; world's second-largest economy; population about 127,000,000. [e]
Subtopics
Prefectures
See also prefectures
- Okinawa prefecture [r]: (沖縄県 Okinawa-ken) Area of Japan consisting of many southerly islands of the Ryukyu Islands chain, with Okinawa Island the largest; population about 1,300,000. [e]
- Kagoshima prefecture [r]: (鹿児島県 Kagoshima-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and including some of the southerly Ryukyu Islands; population about 1,700,000. [e]
Islands
- Okinawa Island [r]: (沖縄本島 Okinawa-hontoo) largest island of Okinawa prefecture in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands chain, with Naha (那覇市 Naha-shi) its capital. [e]
Language
Other related topics
- Kyushu [r]: (九州 Kyuushuu) third-largest and westernmost of the main islands of Japan, divided into seven regions and including the cities of Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Kagoshima; population about 13,000,000. [e]
- Honshu [r]: (本州 Honshuu) largest of the islands of Japan, divided into five regions and including the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Hiroshima; population about 103,000,000. [e]
- Hokkaido [r]: (北海道 Hokkaidoo) second-largest and northernmost of the main islands of Japan, including the cities of Sapporo, Hakodate and Asahikawa; population about 5,500,000. [e]
- Shikoku [r]: (四国) smallest and least populated of the four main islands of Japan, divided into four prefectures and including the cities of Takamatsu, Matsuyama, Tokushima and Uwajima; population about 4,000,000. [e]
