Kumejima

Kumejima, or simply Kume, is an island in , , about 100 km west of the main .
  • Town with 8,950 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 156 metres (512 feet)
  • Description: town in Shimajiri district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as
    “Kumejima Cho”
    “Kumejima Town”
    “Kumejima, Okinawa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Uegusuku Castle Ruins and Kumejima Museum.
Uegusuku Castle is a Ryūkyūan gusuku fortification…
, formerly the Kumejima Centre for…
is a traditional Ryūkyūan home in Kumejima, Okinawa, Japan.

Kumejima

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Latitude
26.3584° or 26° 21′ 30″ north
Longitude
126.7717° or 126° 46′ 18″ east
Open location code
7QR89Q5C+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kumejima” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوميجيما”
  • Asturian: “Kumejima”
  • Catalan: “Kumejima”
  • Cebuano: “Kumejima Chō”
  • Central Okinawan: “久米島町”
  • Chinese: “久米岛町”
  • Chinese: “久米島町”
  • Czech: “Kumedžima”
  • Dutch: “Kumejima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوميجيما”
  • French: “Kumejima-chō”
  • French: “Kumejima”
  • German: “Kumejima”
  • Hungarian: “Kumedzsima”
  • Indonesian: “Kumejima, Okinawa”
  • Indonesian: “Kumejima”
  • Irish: “Kumejima”
  • Italian: “Kumejima”
  • Japanese: “Kumejima-chō”
  • Japanese: “くめじまちょう”
  • Japanese: “久米島町”
  • Korean: “구메지마정”
  • Korean: “구메지마초”
  • Malay: “Kumejima, Okinawa”
  • Malay: “Kumejima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumejima”
  • Norwegian: “Kumejima”
  • Persian: “کومه‌جیما”
  • Polish: “Kumejima”
  • Portuguese: “Kumejima”
  • Russian: “Кумедзима”
  • Russian: “Кумэдзима”
  • Slovenian: “Kumedžima”
  • Spanish: “Kumejima”
  • Swedish: “Kumejima”
  • Tagalog: “Kumedyima”
  • Tagalog: “Kumejima, Okinawa”
  • Tagalog: “Kumejima”
  • Thai: “คูเมจิมะ”
  • Turkish: “Kumejima”
  • Ukrainian: “Кумеджіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Кумедзіма”
  • Urdu: “کومیجیما، اوکیناوا”
  • Yue Chinese: “久米島町”

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