Amami Oshima
Amami Oshima, literally "Big Amami Island", is the largest of the Amami Islands, a small archipelago south of Kyushu, Japan. While administratively a part of Kagoshima, it's geographically and culturally a part of Okinawa.
- Island
- …has 66,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 204 metres (669 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code ASJ
- …is also known as “Amami O Sima”
- Description: island within Ryukyu Islands
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uken.
Uken
Village
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Uken is a village located on Amami Ōshima, in Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Amami Oshima
- Category: landform
- Location
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Latitude
28.25° or 28° 15′ north
Longitude
129.3333° or 129° 20′ east
Open location code
7QWF782M+28
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Amami Oshima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمامي أوشيما”
- Armenian: “Ամամի Օշիմա”
- Asturian: “Amami Ōshima”
- Azerbaijani: “Amamioşima”
- Azerbaijani: “Oşima adası”
- Basque: “Amami Ōshima”
- Breton: “Amami-Ōshima”
- Catalan: “Amami Ōshima”
- Cebuano: “Amami Ōshima”
- Central Okinawan: “Uushima”
- Chinese: “奄美大岛”
- Chinese: “奄美大島”
- Czech: “Amami Óšima”
- Dutch: “Amami Ōshima”
- Esperanto: “Amami-Oŝima”
- Estonian: “Amami Oshima”
- Estonian: “Amami Ōshima”
- Finnish: “Amami Ōshima”
- French: “Amami ō-shima”
- French: “Amami ōshima”
- French: “Amami-ōshima”
- French: “Amami-Ōshima”
- French: “Amamiōshima”
- French: “grande île Amami”
- Galician: “Amami Ōshima”
- German: “Amami Oshima”
- German: “Amami Ōshima”
- German: “Amami-Ōshima”
- Greek: “Αμάμι Οσίμα”
- Hawaiian: “Amami Ōshima”
- Hebrew: “אממי אושימה”
- Indonesian: “Amami Ōshima”
- Italian: “Amami Ōshima”
- Japanese: “あまみおおしま”
- Japanese: “大島”
- Japanese: “奄美大島”
- Korean: “아마미오 섬”
- Korean: “아마미오섬”
- Korean: “아마미오시마 섬”
- Korean: “아마미오시마”
- Mongolian: “Амами Оошима”
- Persian: “آمامی اوشیما”
- Polish: “Amami Ōshima”
- Polish: “Amami-Ōshima”
- Polish: “Amamioshima”
- Portuguese: “Amami Ōshima”
- Romanian: “Amami Ōshima”
- Russian: “Амами-Осима”
- Russian: “Амамиосима”
- Russian: “Амамы-Осгима”
- Russian: “Осима (остров)”
- Russian: “Осима”
- Shona: “Amami Oushima”
- Slovenian: “Amami Ōshima”
- Slovenian: “Amami Ošima”
- Slovenian: “Amami-Ōshima”
- Spanish: “Amami Oshima”
- Spanish: “Amami Ōshima”
- Swedish: “Amami-Ōshima”
- Turkish: “Amami Ōshima”
- Turkish: “Amami”
- Ukrainian: “Амамі Ошіма”
- Ukrainian: “Амамі-Осіма”
- Ukrainian: “Ошіма”
- Vietnamese: “Amami Oshima”
- Vietnamese: “Amami Ōshima”
- Western Frisian: “Amami-Ōshima”
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