Kuro
Kuro Island, often referred to by its full Japanese name Kuroshima, is one of the smaller of the Yaeyama Islands of Japan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Taketomi, Okinawa, Japan
- Also known as: “Baugh”, “Heart Island”, “Kuro Island”, “Kuro Sima”, “Kuroshima”, and “Kurushima”
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iko Pier.
Kuro
- Category: landform
- Location: Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Kuro from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yaeyama—“Kuro” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Kuroşima adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Kuroşima”
- Cebuano: “Kuro-shima (pulo sa Hapon, lat 24,24, long 124,01)”
- Cebuano: “Kuro-shima”
- Central Okinawan: “黒島”
- Chinese: “黑岛”
- Chinese: “黑島”
- Dutch: “Kuroshima”
- French: “Kuro-shima”
- French: “Kuroshima”
- German: “Kuroshima”
- Indonesian: “Kuroshima, Okinawa”
- Indonesian: “Kuroshima”
- Japanese: “くろしま”
- Japanese: “黒島”
- Korean: “구로시마섬”
- Russian: “Куросима”
- Shona: “Chitsuwa che Kuroshima”
- Spanish: “Kuro”
- Spanish: “Kuroshima”
- Swedish: “Kuro-shima”
- Turkish: “Kuroshima”
- Turkish: “Kuroşima (Okinava)”
- Ukrainian: “Куросіма”
- Vietnamese: “Kuroshima, Okinawa”
- Vietnamese: “Kuroshima”
- Yaeyama: “Ffusïma”
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