Iwo Islands
The Volcano Islands, also known as Iwo Islands are a group of three Japanese islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. They lie southwest of the Ogasawara Islands and are administered as part of the Ogasawara, Tokyo Metropolis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Iō-jima”, “Io-rettō”, “Iwō-rettō”, “Iwōjima-shotō”, “Kazan Group”, “Kwazan-rettō”, “Magellan Archipelago”, “Sulphur Islands”, “Sulphur-tō”, “Volcano Islands”, and “Yuwō-rettō”
Iwo Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Iwo Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الجزر البركانية”
- Azerbaijani: “Kacan adaları”
- Azerbaijani: “Kazan adaları”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Кадзан”
- Belarusian: “Кадзан”
- Catalan: “Illes Volcano”
- Cebuano: “Volcano Islands (kapuloan sa Hapon)”
- Cebuano: “Volcano Islands”
- Central Bikol: “Mga isla nin Bulkan”
- Chinese: “火山列岛”
- Chinese: “火山列島”
- Dutch: “Volcano Islands”
- Dutch: “Vulkaan-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Vulkanaj Insuloj”
- French: “chaine des îles volcaniques”
- French: “Chaîne Kazan”
- German: “Io-retto”
- German: “Iō-rettō”
- German: “Kazan Retto”
- German: “Kazan Rettō”
- German: “Kazan-retto”
- German: “Kazan-rettō”
- German: “Vulkaninseln”
- Greek: “Κίτα-Ίο-Τζίμα”
- Greek: “Κιταϊότο”
- Greek: “Μινάμι-Ίο-Τζίμα”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Βολκάνο”
- Hebrew: “איים וולקנים”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Volcano”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Vulkan”
- Italian: “Isole Vulcano”
- Japanese: “火山列島”
- Japanese: “硫黄列島”
- Korean: “가잔 열도”
- Korean: “이오 열도”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Volcano”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vulkanøyene”
- Norwegian: “Vulkanøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر کازان”
- Polish: “Kazan Rettō”
- Polish: “Kazan-rettō”
- Polish: “Wyspy Kazan”
- Portuguese: “Grupo Vulcano”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Volcano”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Vulcano”
- Russian: “Кадзан”
- Russian: “Острова Кадзан”
- Slovak: “Vulkánové ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “otoki Kazan”
- Slovenian: “Vulkanski otoki”
- Spanish: “Islas de Los Volcanes”
- Swedish: “Kazan-rettō”
- Swedish: “Vulkanöarna”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะภูเขาไฟ”
- Turkish: “Volkan Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Кадзан”
- Urdu: “آتش فشاں جزائر”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Kazan”
- Western Panjabi: “آتش فشاں جزائر”
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