Ao Island
Aoshima, also known as Cat Island, is an island in Ehime Prefecture, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 暇・カキコ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Ao Sima”, “Ao-jima”, “Aoshima”, “Aoshima, Ehime”, and “Cat Island”
Ao Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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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 (Ehime)”
- Czech: “Aošima”
- Dutch: “Aoshima”
- Estonian: “Aoshima”
- Finnish: “Aoshima (Ehime)”
- Finnish: “Aoshima”
- French: “Ao-shima”
- French: “île aux chats”
- French: “île bleue”
- French: “Iyo Aoshima”
- German: “Aoshima”
- Indonesian: “Aoshima, Ehime”
- Italian: “Aoshima”
- Japanese: “伊予青島”
- Japanese: “青島”
- Korean: “아오시마”
- 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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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 Wikipedia page “Ao Island”. Photo: 暇・カキコ, CC BY-SA 4.0.