Sakishima Islands
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- Type: Island
- Description: Japanese island group
- Also known as: “Sakischima Gruppe”, “Sakishima Group”, “Sakishima Shotō”, “Sakishima-guntō”, “Sakishima-rettō”, and “Sakisima Guntō”
Sakishima Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Sakishima Islands from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Sakishima Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر ساكيشيما”
- Arabic: “ساتشيشيما”
- Arabic: “ساتيتشيما”
- Arabic: “ساكسيزيما”
- Arabic: “ساكيزيما”
- Arabic: “ساكيشيما شوتو”
- Arabic: “ساكيشيما-غونتو”
- Azerbaijani: “Sakişima”
- Bulgarian: “Сакишима”
- Catalan: “illes Sakishima”
- Catalan: “Illes Sakishima”
- Cebuano: “Sakishima-shotō”
- Chinese: “先岛群岛”
- Chinese: “先岛诸岛”
- Chinese: “先島群島”
- Dutch: “Sakishima Islands”
- Dutch: “Sakishima-eilanden”
- French: “archipel de Sakishima”
- French: “Archipel Sakishima”
- French: “Îles Sakishima”
- French: “Sakishima shotō”
- French: “Sakishima-shotō”
- Galician: “Illas Sakishima”
- German: “Saki-Inseln”
- German: “Sakiinseln”
- German: “Sakishima Gunto”
- German: “Sakishima Shoto”
- German: “Sakishima-Inseln”
- German: “Sakishima-shoto”
- German: “Sakishima-shotō”
- German: “Sakishima”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Sakishima”
- Italian: “Isole Sakishima”
- Italian: “Sakishima”
- Japanese: “さきしましょとう”
- Japanese: “サキシマショトウ”
- Japanese: “先島”
- Japanese: “先島諸島”
- Korean: “사키시마 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Sakišima salos”
- Lithuanian: “Sakišimos salos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakishimaøyene”
- Norwegian: “Sakishimaøyene”
- Persian: “جزیرههای ساکیشیما”
- Russian: “Сакисима”
- Shona: “Zvitsuwa zve Sakishima”
- Slovenian: “otoki Sakishima”
- Spanish: “Islas Sakishima”
- Swedish: “Sakishimaöarna”
- Turkish: “Sakishima Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Сакісіма-Сьото”
- Ukrainian: “Сакісіма”
- Ukrainian: “Сакішіма-Шьото”
- Ukrainian: “Сакішіма”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Sakishima”
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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 “Sakishima Islands”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.