Amami Islands
The Amami Islands are a Japanese archipelago in the Satsunan Islands, which is part of the Ryukyu Islands, and is southwest of Kyushu. Administratively, the group belongs to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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Amami Islands
- Island with 121,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 84 metres (276 feet)
- Description: island group
- Also known as“Amami Group”“Amami Guntō”“Amami Island Group”“Amami Oshima group”“Amami Rettō”“Ōshima-guntō”
- Category: island group
- Location
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Latitude of center
28.2667° or 28° 16′ north
Longitude of center
129.35° or 129° 21′ east
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yue Chinese—“Amami Islands” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Amami adaları”
- Basque: “Amami uharteak”
- Catalan: “illes Amami”
- Cebuano: “Amami Shotō”
- Central Okinawan: “奄美群島”
- Chinese: “奄美”
- Chinese: “奄美地方”
- Chinese: “奄美岛”
- Chinese: “奄美群島”
- Chinese: “奄美诸岛”
- Czech: “Amami”
- Dutch: “Amami-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Amamioj”
- Finnish: “Amamisaaret”
- French: “archipel Amami”
- French: “îles Amami”
- French: “Îles Amami”
- Galician: “Illas Amami”
- German: “Amami-Inselgruppe”
- German: “Amami-Inseln”
- German: “Amami-shotō”
- German: “Amamiinseln”
- Hebrew: “איי אממי”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Amami”
- Italian: “Isole Amami”
- Japanese: “奄美群島”
- Japanese: “奄美諸島”
- Korean: “아마미 군도”
- Korean: “아마미 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Amami salos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amami Kûn-tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amamiøyene”
- Norwegian: “Amamiøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر آمامی”
- Polish: “Wyspy Amami”
- Portuguese: “Amami”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Amami”
- Romanian: “Insulele Amami”
- Russian: “Амами (острова)”
- Russian: “Амами”
- Russian: “Острова Амами”
- Shona: “Zvitsuwa zve Amami”
- Slovenian: “Amamijski otoki”
- Spanish: “Islas Amami”
- Spanish: “Islas de Amami”
- Swedish: “Amamiöarna”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะอะมะมิ”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะอามามิ”
- Turkish: “Amami Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Амамі”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Амамі”
- Vietnamese: “Amami (quần đảo)”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Amami”
- Wu Chinese: “奄美群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “奄美群島”
- “Amami-guntō”
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