Amakusa
Amakusa is a city and chain of islands off the west coast of Kumamoto in Japan. The southernmost part of the islands belongs to Kagoshima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island group in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Amakusa archipelago”, “Amakusa group”, “Amakusa island group”, “Amakusa islands”, “Amakusa Jima”, “Amakusa shotō”, “Amakusa-rettō”, “Amakusa-shoto”, and “Amakusa-shotō”
Amakusa
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Amakusa” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Amakusa adaları”
- Catalan: “Illes Amakusa”
- Cebuano: “Amakusa-shotō”
- Chinese: “天草群島”
- Chinese: “天草諸島”
- Czech: “Souostroví Amakusa”
- Dutch: “Amakusa”
- French: “îles Amakusa”
- French: “Îles Amakusa”
- German: “Amakusa-Inseln”
- Greek: “Αμακούζα”
- Greek: “Αμακούσα-σότο”
- Greek: “Αμακούσα”
- Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος Αμακούσα”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Αμακούσα”
- Italian: “Arcipelago di Amakusa”
- Japanese: “天草島”
- Japanese: “天草諸島”
- Korean: “아마쿠사 제도”
- Persian: “آماکوسا”
- Persian: “اماکوسا”
- Persian: “مجمعالجزایر آماکوسا”
- Polish: “Amakusa”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Amakusa”
- Russian: “Амакуса (острова)”
- Russian: “Амакуса”
- Serbian: “Амакуса”
- Slovenian: “Amakusa”
- Slovenian: “otoška skupina Amakusa”
- Slovenian: “skupina Amakusa”
- Spanish: “Amakusa”
- Spanish: “archipiélago de Amakusa”
- Spanish: “islas Amakusa”
- Spanish: “Islas Amakusa”
- Turkish: “Amakusa Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Амакуса”
- Vietnamese: “Amakusa”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Amakusa”
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