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Shikoku

Shikoku is an oft-forgotten island in . The smallest of Japan's Big Four with around four million inhabitants, it lies to the south of . The island is thought of as a rural backwater, with few must-see attractions, but a visit there can wash away those doubts; the mountainous inner regions offer some good hiking.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Roadside station Tosa-Sameura.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tosa and Motoyama.

Town
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is a town located in District, , . As of 30 May 2022, the town had an estimated population of 3,670 in 1,908 households and a population density of 17 people per km2. The total area of the town is 212.13 square kilometres.

Town
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is a town located in , , . As of 31 July 2022, the town had an estimated population of 3‚318 in 1858 households and a population density of 25 persons per km2. is situated 8 km east of Shikoku.

Village
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Ōkawa is a village located in Tosa District, , . As of 31 January 2023, the village had an estimated population of 352 in 209 households and a population density of 3.7 persons per km2. is situated 10 km northwest of Shikoku.

Shikoku

Latitude
33.75° or 33° 45′ north
Longitude
133.5° or 133° 30′ east
Population
4,140,000
Elevation
607 metres (1,991 feet)
Open location code
8Q5MQG22+22
Geo­Names ID
1852487
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Shikoku” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Shikoku”
  • Afrikaans: “Sjikokoe”
  • Albanian: “Shikoku”
  • Arabic: “شيكوكو”
  • Armenian: “Սիկոկու”
  • Asturian: “Rexón de Shikoku”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şikoku”
  • Balinese: “Shikoku”
  • Banjar: “Shikoku”
  • Bashkir: “Сикоку”
  • Basque: “Shikoku”
  • Belarusian: “Сікоку”
  • Bengali: “শিকোকু”
  • Bosnian: “Šikoku”
  • Breton: “Shikoku”
  • Bulgarian: “Шикоку”
  • Catalan: “Shikoku”
  • Cebuano: “Shikoku”
  • Central Kurdish: “شیکۆکو”
  • Chinese: “四國”
  • Croatian: “Shikoku”
  • Czech: “Šikoku”
  • Danish: “Shikoku”
  • Dutch: “Shikoku”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيكوكو”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝikokuo”
  • Estonian: “Shikoku”
  • Finnish: “Shikoku”
  • French: “Shikoku”
  • Galician: “Shikoku”
  • Georgian: “სიკოკუ”
  • Georgian: “შიკოკუ”
  • German: “Shikoku”
  • Greek: “Σικόκου”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Si-koet”
  • Hausa: “Shikoku”
  • Hebrew: “שיקוקו”
  • Hindi: “शिकोकू”
  • Hungarian: “Sikoku”
  • Icelandic: “Shikoku”
  • Iloko: “Shikoku”
  • Indonesian: “Shikoku”
  • Irish: “Shikoku”
  • Italian: “Shikoku”
  • Japanese: “四国”
  • Kazakh: “Сикоку”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់ស៊ីកុគឹ”
  • Kirghiz: “Сикоку”
  • Korean: “시코쿠”
  • Kurdish: “Shikoku”
  • Latin: “Sicocus”
  • Latvian: “Šikoku”
  • Literary Chinese: “四國”
  • Lithuanian: “Šikoku”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Shikoku”
  • Macedonian: “Шикоку”
  • Malay: “Shikoku”
  • Malayalam: “ഷികോകു”
  • Marathi: “शिकोकू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sù-kok”
  • Mingrelian: “სიკოკუ”
  • Nepali: “सिकोकु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Shikoku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shikoku”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shikoku”
  • Norwegian: “Shikoku”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Shikoku”
  • Ossetian: “Сикоку”
  • Pampanga: “Shikoku”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਕੋਕੂ”
  • Persian: “شیکوکو”
  • Polish: “Sikoku”
  • Portuguese: “Shikoku”
  • Quechua: “Shikoku”
  • Romanian: “Shikoku”
  • Russian: “Сикоку”
  • Samogitian: “Šėkoku”
  • Sardinian: “Shikoku”
  • Scots: “Shikoku”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Shikoku”
  • Serbian: “Шикоку”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šikoku”
  • Sinhala: “ෂිකෝකු”
  • Slovak: “Šikoku”
  • Slovenian: “Šikoku”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیکوکو”
  • Spanish: “Shikoku”
  • Sundanese: “Shikoku”
  • Swahili: “Shikoku”
  • Swedish: “Shikoku”
  • Tagalog: “Shikoku”
  • Tamil: “சிகொக்கு”
  • Tatar: “Сикоку”
  • Thai: “เกาะชิโกกุ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Shikoku”
  • Turkish: “Shikoku”
  • Uighur: “شىكوكۇ”
  • Ukrainian: “Шікоку”
  • Urdu: “شیکوکو”
  • Vietnamese: “Shikoku”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shikoku”
  • Welsh: “Shikoku”
  • Western Frisian: “Sjikokû”
  • Western Panjabi: “شیکوکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “四国岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “四國”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sameura Dam and Ōgoya Yama.

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Shikoku”. Photo: Yurinokuni, CC0.