Yatsushiro Sea
The Yatsushiro Sea, also called the Shiranui Sea, is a shallow semi-enclosed inland sea separating the island of Kyūshū from the Amakusa Islands. It lies mostly within Kumamoto Prefecture and at the southern end of the sea it also borders Kagoshima Prefecture.Photo: MK Products, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Sea
- Description: inland sea in Japan
- Also known as: “Shiranuhino-umi”, “Shiranuino-umi”, “Yatsushiro Kai”, “Yatsushiro-kai”, “Yatsushiro-wan”, “Yatsusiro Kai”, and “Yatusiro Kai”
Yatsushiro Sea
- Categories: inland sea, sound, locality, and body of water
- Location: Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.33541° or 32° 20′ 8″ northLongitude
130.41362° or 130° 24′ 49″ eastOpen location code
8Q4G8CP7+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 2483388226OpenStreetMap feature
place=seaGeoNames ID
1848442Wikidata ID
Q49560
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Yatsushiro Sea” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بحر ياتسوشيرو”
- Armenian: “Յացուշիրո (ծովածոց)”
- Armenian: “Յացուշիրո”
- Asturian: “Mar de Yatsushiro”
- Azerbaijani: “Yatsuşiro dənizi”
- Cebuano: “Yatsushiro-kai”
- Chinese: “八代海”
- Czech: “Jacuširo-kai”
- Czech: “Jacuširské moře”
- Dutch: “Yatsushiro Sea”
- Esperanto: “Yatsushiro”
- French: “mer de Yatsushiro”
- French: “Mer de Yatsushiro”
- German: “Yatsushiro-See”
- Italian: “Mare Yatsushiro”
- Japanese: “Yatsushirokai”
- Japanese: “やつしろかい”
- Japanese: “ヤツシロカイ”
- Japanese: “不知火海”
- Japanese: “八代海”
- Korean: “야쓰시로 해”
- Korean: “야쓰시로해”
- Latvian: “Jacuširo jūra”
- Malay: “Laut Shiranui”
- Malay: “Laut Yatsushiro”
- Portuguese: “Mar de Yatsushiro”
- Russian: “Яцусиро (залив)”
- Russian: “Яцусиро”
- Slovenian: “Jacuširsko morje”
- Spanish: “Mar de Yatsushiro”
- Turkish: “Yatsushiro Denizi”
- Ukrainian: “Яцусіро море”
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