Nanpō Islands
The Nanpō Islands is a collective term for the groups of islands that are located to the south of the Japanese archipelago. They extend from the Izu Peninsula west of Tokyo Bay southward for about 1,200 km, to within 500 km of the Mariana Islands.- Type: Island
- Description: Japanese term 南方諸島 (literally ‘southern islands’). indefinitely refers Izu and Ogasawara Islands
- Also known as: “Archipel de Nanpō”, “Nampō Islands”, “Nampo-shoto”, “Nanpo”, “Nanpo Group”, “Nanpō Syotō”, “Nanpo-shoto”, “Nanpō-shotō”, “Ogasawara-shotō”, “otoki Nanpo”, “Quần đảo Nanpo”, “Tōnan-rettō”, “Tōnan-shotō”, “Нампо-сёто”, “ボニン諸島”, and “小笠原群島”
Nanpō Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30° north
Longitude
140° east
Open location code
8R222222+22
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Nanpō Islands” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islles Nampō”
- Asturian: “Islles Nanpō”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Нампо”
- Belarusian: “Нампо”
- Catalan: “illes Nanpō”
- Cebuano: “Nanpō Shotō”
- Croatian: “Nanpō otoci”
- Croatian: “Otoci Nanpō”
- Esperanto: “Sudjapaniaj Insuloj”
- French: “archipel Nanpō”
- French: “Archipel Nanpō”
- German: “Nampō-shotō”
- Hebrew: “איי נאנפו”
- Iloko: “Is-isla ti Nanpō”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Nanpō”
- Japanese: “南方諸島”
- Kazakh: “Нампо аралдары”
- Khmer: “កោះណាំប៉ូ”
- Korean: “난포 제도”
- Latvian: “Nampo salas”
- Malay: “Nanpo Shoto”
- Northern Frisian: “Nampo Eilunen”
- Northern Frisian: “Nampo-Eilunen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nanpōøyene”
- Norwegian: “Nanpōøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر نانپو”
- Polish: “Nanpō”
- Polish: “Wyspy Nanpō”
- Russian: “острова Нампо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nanpō otoci”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nanpō”
- Sinhala: “නැන්පෝ දූපත්”
- Slovenian: “Otoki Nampo”
- Spanish: “Islas Nanpō”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะนัมโป”
- Turkish: “Nanpō Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Нампо”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Нанпо”
- Urdu: “جزائر نانپو”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Nanpō”
- Western Panjabi: “جزائر نانپو”
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