Ōsumi Islands
The Ōsumi Islands is an archipelago in the Ryukyu Archipelago, and are the northernmost group of the Ryukyu Islands, The chain extends from the southern tip of Kyushu to Yakushima. Administratively, the group belongs within Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.- Type: Island
- Description: island group in Japan
- Also known as: “Ōsumi-guntō”, “Ōsumi-rettō”, and “Osumi-shoto”
Ōsumi Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Ōsumi Islands” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Osumi adaları”
- Bengali: “ওসুমী দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bulgarian: “Архипелаг Осуми”
- Bulgarian: “Осуми (острови)”
- Bulgarian: “Осуми”
- Catalan: “Illes Osumi”
- Catalan: “Illes Ōsumi”
- Cebuano: “Ōsumi-shotō”
- Chinese: “Ôsumi Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “大隅群島”
- Czech: “Ósumi”
- Dutch: “Ōsumi Islands”
- Esperanto: “Osumi-insularo”
- Estonian: “Osumi saared”
- Estonian: “Ōsumi saared”
- French: “archipel Ōsumi”
- French: “Archipel Ōsumi”
- French: “Îles Ōsumi”
- German: “Osumi-Inseln”
- German: “Ōsumi-Inseln”
- Hebrew: “איי אוסומי”
- Italian: “Isole Osumi”
- Italian: “Isole Ōsumi”
- Japanese: “Ōsumi-shotō”
- Japanese: “大隅諸島”
- Korean: “오스미 제도”
- Korean: “오오스미 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Osumi salos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ôsumi Kûn-tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Osumiene”
- Norwegian: “Osumiene”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Osumi”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Ōsumi”
- Russian: “Осуми (острова)”
- Russian: “Осуми”
- Shona: “Zvitsuwa zve Ousumi”
- Slovenian: “Osumijski otoki”
- Spanish: “Islas Osumi”
- Spanish: “Islas Ōsumi”
- Swedish: “Osumiöarna”
- Turkish: “Ōsumi Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Осумі”
- Vietnamese: “Osumi (quần đảo)”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Osumi”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Ōsumi”
- “Ōsumi-shotō”
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