Ao Island

Aoshima, also known as Cat Island, is an island in , Japan, known for its large number of feline residents and small number of people. Felines have been reported by news outlets to outnumber humans by ratios between 6:1 and 10:1, but as elderly inhabitants of the island have died, the ratio has greatly increased, to almost 36:1.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Ao Sima”, “Ao-jima”, “Aoshima”, “Aoshima, Ehime”, “Cat Island”, “île aux chats”, “Iyo Aoshima”, “Kočičí ostrov”, “아오시마”, and “伊予青島”

Ao Island

Latitude
33.73603° or 33° 44′ 10″ north
Longitude
132.48248° or 132° 28′ 57″ east
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
Open location code
8Q5JPFPJ+CX
Geo­Names ID
1865240
Wiki­data ID
Q11661371
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ao Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوشيما”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aoşima adası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aoşima”
  • Catalan: “Aoshima”
  • Cebuano: “Ao-shima”
  • Chinese: “青島 (愛媛縣)”
  • Chinese: “青島”
  • Czech: “Aošima”
  • Dutch: “Aoshima”
  • Estonian: “Aoshima”
  • Finnish: “Aoshima (Ehime)”
  • Finnish: “Aoshima”
  • French: “Ao-shima”
  • French: “île bleue”
  • German: “Aoshima”
  • Indonesian: “Aoshima, Ehime”
  • Italian: “Aoshima”
  • Japanese: “青島”
  • Korean: “아오시마섬”
  • Lithuanian: “Aošima”
  • Polish: “Aoshima”
  • Portuguese: “Aoshima”
  • Russian: “Аосима”
  • Spanish: “Aoshima (Ehime)”
  • Spanish: “Aoshima”
  • Swedish: “Aoshima”
  • Turkish: “Aoshima (Ehime)”
  • Turkish: “Aoshima”
  • Ukrainian: “Аосіма (Ехіме)”
  • Ukrainian: “Аосіма”
  • Uzbek: “Aoshima, Ehime”
  • Vietnamese: “Aoshima, Ehime”

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