Daito Islands
The Daitō Islands are an archipelago consisting of three isolated coral islands, administered by Japan, in the Philippine Sea southeast of Okinawa. The islands have a total area of 44.427 square kilometers and a population of 2,107.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kitadaito and Minamidaito.
Kitadaito
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Kitadaitō is an isolated island in the open sea about 360 km east of the Okinawan mainland, in Japan. The outer part of the island is made of precipitous cliffs, while the inside is flat plains that lay in a basin surrounded by vegetation covered cliff side.
Minamidaito
Minamidaitō is a village on an island of the same name in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. Other than its tiny neighbor Kitadaito, the nearest land is Okinawa island, about 400 km to the west.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kitadaitō Village.
Kitadaitō Village
Village
Kitadaitō is a village consisting of the islands of Kitadaitōjima and Okidaitōjima of Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2016, the village has an estimated population of 615 and a density of 47 persons per km2.
Daito Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Daitō Islands”, “Daito Shoto”, “Daitō Sima”, “Daitō-jima”, “Daitō-shima”, “Magelhaes Archipelago”, “Ōagari-shima”, and “Ufuagari”
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Daito Islands” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Daito uharteak”
- Catalan: “arxipèlag Daitō”
- Catalan: “illes Daitō”
- Cebuano: “Daitō Shotō”
- Chinese: “Daitô Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “大东群岛”
- Chinese: “大東群島”
- Chinese: “大東諸島”
- Czech: “Borodinské ostrovy”
- Dutch: “Daito-eilanden”
- Dutch: “Daitō-eilanden”
- Finnish: “Daitō-saaret”
- French: “Archipel Daito”
- French: “archipel Daitō”
- French: “Archipel Daitō”
- French: “Iles Daito”
- French: “Iles Daitō”
- French: “Îles Daito”
- French: “Îles Daitō”
- German: “Borodino-Inseln”
- German: “Daito-Inseln”
- German: “Daitō-Inseln”
- German: “Daito-retto”
- German: “Daitō-rettō”
- German: “Daito-shoto”
- German: “Daitō-shotō”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Daitō”
- Italian: “Isole Daitō”
- Japanese: “Daitō-shotō”
- Japanese: “だいとうしょとう”
- Japanese: “大東島”
- Japanese: “大東島地方”
- Japanese: “大東諸島”
- Korean: “다이토 섬”
- Korean: “다이토 제도”
- Latvian: “Daito salas”
- Literary Chinese: “大東諸島”
- Lithuanian: “Daito salos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Daitô Kûn-tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Daitōøyene”
- Norwegian: “Daitōøyene”
- Polish: “Daitō Shotō”
- Polish: “Daitō-shotō”
- Polish: “Wyspy Borodino”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Borodino”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Daito”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Daitō”
- Russian: “Дайто”
- Russian: “Острова Бородино”
- Slovenian: “otoki Daito”
- Spanish: “Islas Daito”
- Spanish: “Islas Daitō”
- Swedish: “Daitoöarna”
- Turkish: “Daitō Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “архіпелаг Дайто”
- Ukrainian: “Дайто (острови)”
- Ukrainian: “Дайто”
- Ukrainian: “острови Бородіно”
- Ukrainian: “острови Дайто”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Daito”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Daitō”
- Yue Chinese: “大東群島”
- “Daitō Shotō”
- “だいとうしょとう”
- “大東諸島”
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