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Okinawa

Okinawa is a subtropical island chain between mainland and . Formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom, with its own language and culture, it's now one of Japan's 47 prefectures and the country's answer to , with a complicated mix of gorgeous scenery, mass tourism, tragic history, cultural pride, and looming military presence.
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is the capital of the Okinawa Prefecture in and is the main city on . It has a population of around 317,000, which is about a quarter of the total population of the island.

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is the second-largest and the most populated island of the of Okinawa, . The whole island belongs to the City of , which also includes the deserted Senkaku islands.

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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.

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The are an archipelago in the southwest of Okinawa Prefecture, , and cover 591.46 square kilometres. The islands are located southwest of the , part of the Ryukyu Islands archipelago.

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, also known as Okinawa Main Island, is the largest of the and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in the region. It is the smallest and least populated of the five .

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The are a small archipelago and a National Park in Okinawa, , to the west of the main .

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The are a group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, , belonging to the Ryukyu Islands. They are situated between and the .

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, also known by its historical name Shimajiri, is the southernmost part of .

Okinawa

Latitude of center
26.1813° or 26° 10′ 53″ north
Longitude of center
127.7216° or 127° 43′ 18″ east
Population
1,470,000
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4351351157
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
1854345
Wiki­data ID
Q766445
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Okinawa” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Prefektur Okinawa”
  • Afrikaans: “Okinawa Prefektuur”
  • Afrikaans: “Okinawa-prefektuur”
  • Arabic: “أوكيناوا”
  • Arabic: “محافظة أوكيناوا”
  • Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Okinawa”
  • Armenian: “Օկինավա”
  • Assamese: “অকিনাৱা প্ৰশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Asturian: “Okinawa (prefeutura)”
  • Asturian: “Okinawa (Xapón)”
  • Asturian: “Okinawa”
  • Asturian: “prefeutura d’Okinawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Okinava prefekturası”
  • Balinese: “Préféktur Okinawa”
  • Basque: “Okinawa”
  • Belarusian: “Акінава (прэфектура)”
  • Belarusian: “Акінава”
  • Belarusian: “прэфектура Акінава”
  • Bengali: “ওকিনাওয়া প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “prefeti Okinawa”
  • Bulgarian: “Окинава”
  • Catalan: “Okinawa”
  • Catalan: “prefectura d’Okinawa”
  • Catalan: “Prefectura d’Okinawa”
  • Cebuano: “Okinawa-ken”
  • Central Bikol: “Prepektura kan Okinawa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆکیناوا”
  • Central Okinawan: “うちなーちん”
  • Central Okinawan: “沖縄県”
  • Chechen: “Окинава (префектура)”
  • Chechen: “Окинава”
  • Cherokee: “ᎣkᎢᎾᏩ”
  • Chinese: “Chōngshéng Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “Okinawa-koān”
  • Chinese: “冲绳县 / 沖繩縣”
  • Chinese: “冲绳县”
  • Chinese: “沖繩”
  • Chinese: “沖繩縣”
  • Croatian: “Okinawa, prefektura”
  • Croatian: “Okinawa”
  • Czech: “Okinawská prefektura”
  • Czech: “prefektura Okinawa”
  • Czech: “Prefektura Okinawa”
  • Danish: “Okinawa-præfekturet”
  • Dutch: “Okinawa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوكيناوا”
  • Esperanto: “Gubernio Okinavo”
  • Estonian: “Okinawa prefektuur”
  • Finnish: “Okinawan prefektuuri”
  • French: “Okinawa”
  • French: “préfecture d’Okinawa”
  • French: “Préfecture d’Okinawa”
  • Galician: “Prefectura de Okinawa”
  • Georgian: “ოკინავის პრეფექტურა”
  • German: “Okinawa”
  • German: “Präfektur Okinawa”
  • Greek: “Οκινάουα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓકિનાવા પ્રીફેક્ચર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Okinawa-yen”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tshûng-shîn-yen”
  • Hawaiian: “Pelipekika Okinawa”
  • Hebrew: “אוקינאווה”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אוקינאווה”
  • Hindi: “ओकीनावा प्रीफेक्चर”
  • Hungarian: “Okinava prefektúra”
  • Icelandic: “Okinawa-hérað”
  • Iloko: “Okinawa”
  • Iloko: “Prepektura ti Okinawa”
  • Indonesian: “Okinawa”
  • Indonesian: “Prefektur Okinawa”
  • Irish: “Maoracht Okinawa”
  • Italian: “Okinawa”
  • Italian: “prefettura di Okinawa”
  • Italian: “Prefettura di Okinawa”
  • Japanese: “Okinawa-ken”
  • Japanese: “おきなわ”
  • Japanese: “オキナワ”
  • Japanese: “おきなわけん”
  • Japanese: “オキナワケン”
  • Japanese: “沖縄”
  • Japanese: “沖縄県”
  • Javanese: “Prefektur Okinawa”
  • Javanese: “Préfèktur Okinawa”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Okinawa”
  • Kannada: “ಒಕಿನಾವಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តអូគីណាវ៉ា”
  • Khmer: “អូគីណាវ៉ា(ខេត្ត)”
  • Korean: “오끼나와현”
  • Korean: “오키나와 현”
  • Korean: “오키나와현”
  • Latin: “Okinawa”
  • Latin: “Okinawaënsis”
  • Latvian: “Okinavas prefektūra”
  • Literary Chinese: “沖繩縣”
  • Lithuanian: “Okinavos prefektūra”
  • Macedonian: “Окинава”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Okinawa”
  • Malay: “ويلايه اوکيناوا”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯀꯤꯅꯥꯋꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
  • Marathi: “ओकिनावा प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “ओकिनावा”
  • Mazanderani: “اکیناوا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Okinawa-gâing”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Okinawa-koān”
  • Mongolian: “Окинава”
  • Nepali: “ओकिनावा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Okinawa-ken”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prefektuur Okinawa”
  • Northern Sami: “Okinawa prefektuvra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Okinawa prefektur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Okinawa prefektur”
  • Norwegian: “Okinawa”
  • Ossetian: “Окинавæ (префектурæ)”
  • Ossetian: “Окинавæ”
  • Persian: “استان اوکیناوا”
  • Polish: “Okinawa”
  • Polish: “Prefektura Okinawa”
  • Portuguese: “Okinawa”
  • Portuguese: “Oquinaua”
  • Romanian: “Prefectura Okinawa”
  • Russian: “Окинава”
  • Samogitian: “Okinavas prefektūra”
  • Scots: “Okinawa Prefectur”
  • Serbian: “Окинава”
  • Serbian: “Префектура Окинава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Okinava”
  • Sindhi: “اوڪيناوا پريفيڪچر”
  • Sinhala: “ඔකිනාවා ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Okinawa”
  • Slovenian: “prefektura Okinava”
  • Slovenian: “Prefektura Okinava”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوکیناوا اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Okinawa”
  • Spanish: “prefectura de Okinawa”
  • Spanish: “Prefectura de Okinawa”
  • Sundanese: “Okinawa Prefecture”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Okinawa”
  • Swedish: “Okinawa prefektur”
  • Swedish: “Okinawa”
  • Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Okinawa”
  • Tajik: “Префектураи Окинава”
  • Tamil: “ஓக்கினாவா மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Окинава (префектура)”
  • Tatar: “Окинава”
  • Telugu: “ఓకినావా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโอกินาวะ”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโอะกินะวะ”
  • Turkish: “Okinawa prefektörlüğü”
  • Turkish: “Okinawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Префектура Окінава”
  • Urdu: “اوکیناوا پریفیکچر”
  • Vietnamese: “Okinawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Okinawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Okinawa”
  • Welsh: “Okinawa”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع اوکیناوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “冲绳县”
  • Yue Chinese: “沖繩”
  • Yue Chinese: “沖繩縣”
  • “Okinavas prefektūra”
  • “Oquinahua”

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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 “Okinawa”. Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.