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Shimajiri District

Kumejima

Kumejima, or simply Kume, is an island in , , about 100 km west of the main .
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  • Type: Town with 8,950 residents
  • Description: town in Shimajiri district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kumejima Cho”, “Kumejima Town”, and “Kumejima, Okinawa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tatami Ishi.

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, literally "tatami stones", is a geological feature in Kumejima, , Japan. Located on the south coast of the island of Ōjima, to the immediate southeast of , it lies within Kumejima Prefectural Natural Park.

Kumejima

Latitude
26.3405° or 26° 20′ 26″ north
Longitude
126.8051° or 126° 48′ 18″ east
Population
8,950
Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)
Open location code
7QR88RR4+62
Open­Street­Map ID
node 618317625
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7415818
Wiki­data ID
Q1206086
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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، اوکیناوا”
  • 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”
  • Yue Chinese: “久米島町”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kumejima”. Photo: Snap55, CC BY 3.0.