Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima, officially named Iwo Tō, is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south of the Bonin Islands and together with them make up the Ogasawara Archipelago.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain south of the Ogasawara Islands, site of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima
- Also known as: “Đảo Iwo”, “Gunung Surabachi”, “île du soufre”, “Illa de Iwo Jima”, “Insula Iwo Jima”, “Iō Island”, “Iō Jima”, “Iô Sima”, “Iō Tō”, “Iō-jima”, “Iojima”, “Iōjima”, “Ioto”, “Iotō”, “Ivo jima”, “Ivo Jima”, “Iwo Shima”, “Iwo to”, “Iwo To”, “Iwo-džima”, “Iwo-jima”, “Iwo-Jima”, “Iwo-to”, “Iwōtō”, “Lưu Huỳnh đảo”, “Monte Suribachi”, “Naka-iwō-jima”, “RJAW”, “Sulphur Island”, “Suribachi”, “Zwavel eiland”, “Zwaveleiland”, “Ίβο-Τζίμα”, “Ιβοτζίμα”, “Иво”, “Иодзима”, “Иото”, “Іво Джіма”, “Іво дзіма”, “Іводжіма”, “Іводзіма”, “איו ג’ימה”, “איוו טו”, “איווג’ימה”, “הר סורבאצ’י”, “הר סוריבאצ’י”, “إيو تو”, “إيوو جيما”, “ایو تو”, “ایو جیما”, “ایوتو”, “ایوجیما”, “유황도”, “이오시마”, “이오지마”, “イオウ島”, “折钵山”, and “硫黄岛”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Iwo Jima Air Base.
Iwo Jima Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Iwo Jima
- Categories: volcanic island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Tokyo, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.77987° or 24° 46′ 48″ north
Longitude
141.31751° or 141° 19′ 3″ east
Population
400
Elevation
109 metres (358 feet)
IATA airport code
IWO
Open location code
7RP3Q8H9+W2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Iwo Jima” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Iwo Jima”
- Arabic: “آيوو جيما”
- Arabic: “إيو جيما”
- Assamese: “ইয় জিমা”
- Assamese: “ইয়‘ জিমা”
- Assamese: “ইয়’ জিমা”
- Azerbaijani: “İoşima”
- Basque: “Iōtō”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Іодзіма”
- Belarusian: “Іодзіма”
- Bengali: “ইয়ো জিমা”
- Bulgarian: “Иво Джима”
- Catalan: “Iwo Jima”
- Cebuano: “Iwo Jima”
- Chinese: “硫磺岛”
- Chinese: “硫磺島”
- Croatian: “Iwo Jima”
- Czech: “Iwodžima”
- Danish: “Iwo Jima”
- Dutch: “Bonineilanden”
- Dutch: “Iwo Jima”
- Esperanto: “Iwo Jima”
- Estonian: “Iwo Jima”
- Finnish: “Iwo Jima”
- French: “Île Iō”
- French: “Iwo Jima”
- Galician: “Illa de Io To”
- Galician: “Illa de Iwo To”
- German: “Iwojima”
- German: “Iwoto”
- Greek: “Ίβο Τζίμα”
- Hebrew: “איוו ג’ימה”
- Hebrew: “איוו גימה”
- Icelandic: “Iwo Jima”
- Indonesian: “Iwo Jima”
- Italian: “Iwo Jima”
- Japanese: “Iō-tō”
- Japanese: “いおうじま”
- Japanese: “イオウジマ”
- Japanese: “いおうとう”
- Japanese: “硫黄島”
- Javanese: “Iwo Jima”
- Korean: “이오 섬”
- Korean: “이오섬”
- Literary Chinese: “硫磺島”
- Lithuanian: “Ivo Džima”
- Macedonian: “Иво Џима”
- Malay: “Iwo Jima”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iwo Jima”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iwo Jima”
- Norwegian: “Iwo Jima”
- Persian: “ایوو جیما”
- Persian: “ایووجیما”
- Polish: “Iwo Jima”
- Portuguese: “Iwo Jima”
- Romanian: “Iwo Jima”
- Russian: “Иводзима”
- Russian: “Ио”
- Rusyn: “Иводжима”
- Scots: “Iwo Jima”
- Serbian: “Иво Џима”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Iwo Jima”
- Slovak: “Iótó”
- Slovenian: “Iwo Jima”
- Spanish: “Iōtō”
- Spanish: “Iwo Jima”
- Swedish: “Iwo Jima”
- Thai: “อิโวะจิมะ”
- Thai: “อิโอโต”
- Turkish: “Iwo Jima”
- Ukrainian: “Іото”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Iō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Iwo Jima”
- Welsh: “Iwo Jima”
- “Iō-tō”
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