Ogimi
Ogimi is a small village in the northern part of Okinawa Island, Japan, known as part of the Yanbaru region — a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site. The village sits between lush subtropical forest and the East China Sea, and is famous for its longevity: it has one of the highest concentrations of centenarians in the world.Photo: Hykw-a4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 3,310 residents
- Description: village in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Ōgimi”, “Ogimi Village”, “Ogimi-son”, “Ōjimi”, “Ugimi”, and “Ujimi”
Ogimi
- Categories: village of Japan and locality
- Location: Northern Okinawa, Okinawa Island, Ginoza Son, Kunigami District, Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.7018° or 26° 42′ 6″ northLongitude
128.1202° or 128° 7′ 13″ eastPopulation
3,310Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)Open location code
7QRCP42C+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 656071655OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1854640Wikidata ID
Q1351188
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ogimi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوغيمي”
- Catalan: “Ōgimi”
- Cebuano: “Ōgimi Son”
- Central Okinawan: “大宜味村”
- Chinese: “大宜味村”
- Czech: “Ógimi”
- Dutch: “Ōgimi”
- Esperanto: “Ōgimi”
- French: “Ōgimi”
- German: “Ogimi”
- German: “Ōgimi”
- Hungarian: “Ógimi”
- Indonesian: “Ōgimi, Okinawa”
- Indonesian: “Ōgimi”
- Irish: “Ōgimi”
- Italian: “Ōgimi”
- Japanese: “Ōgimi-son”
- Japanese: “おおぎみ”
- Japanese: “おおぎみそん”
- Japanese: “大宜味”
- Japanese: “大宜味村”
- Korean: “오기미손”
- Korean: “오기미촌”
- Persian: “اوگیمی”
- Polish: “Ōgimi”
- Portuguese: “Ōgimi”
- Russian: “Огими”
- Slovenian: “Ogimi”
- Slovenian: “Ōgimi”
- Spanish: “Ogimi”
- Spanish: “Ōgimi”
- Tagalog: “Ōgimi, Okinawa”
- Tagalog: “Ogimi”
- Tagalog: “Ōgimi”
- Thai: “โองิมิ”
- Turkish: “Ōgimi-mura”
- Turkish: “Ōgimi”
- Ukrainian: “Оґімі”
- Urdu: “اوگی می”
- Yue Chinese: “大宜味村”
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