Okinawa
Okinawa is a subtropical island chain between mainland Japan and Taiwan. 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 Hawaii, with a complicated mix of gorgeous scenery, mass tourism, tragic history, cultural pride, and looming military presence.
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Okinawa
- Type: Province with 1,470,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “Okinawa (prefeutura)”, “Okinawa (Xapón)”, “Okinawa Ken”, “Okinawa Prefecture”, “Okinawa prefektörlüğü”, “Okinawská prefektura”, “Oquinaua”, “Tỉnh Okinawa”, “Uchina”, “Акінава (прэфектура)”, “うちなーちん”, and “沖繩”
- Neighbors: Kagoshima
- Categories: prefecture of Japan and locality
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Amharic: “ኦኪናዋ”
- Arabic: “أوكيناوا”
- Arabic: “محافظة أوكيناوا”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura d’Okinawa”
- Armenian: “Օկինավա”
- Assamese: “অকিনাৱা প্ৰশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Asturian: “prefeutura d’Okinawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Okinava prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Okinawa”
- Basque: “Okinawa”
- Belarusian: “Акінава”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Акінава”
- Bengali: “ওকিনাওয়া প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “prefeti Okinawa”
- Bulgarian: “Окинава”
- Burmese: “အိုခိနဝခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “prefectura d’Okinawa”
- Catalan: “Prefectura d’Okinawa”
- Cebuano: “Okinawa-ken”
- Central Bikol: “Prepektura kan Okinawa”
- Central Kurdish: “ئۆکیناوا”
- Central Okinawan: “沖縄県”
- Chechen: “Окинава (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Окинава”
- Cherokee: “ᎣkᎢᎾᏩ”
- Chinese: “Chōngshéng Xiàn”
- Chinese: “冲绳县 / 沖繩縣”
- Chinese: “冲绳县”
- Chinese: “沖繩縣”
- Croatian: “Okinawa, prefektura”
- Croatian: “Okinawa”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Okinawa”
- 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”
- Kazakh: “Окинава”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តអូគីណាវ៉ា”
- Khmer: “អូគីណាវ៉ា(ខេត្ត)”
- Kirghiz: “Окинава”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Okinawa”
- Ossetian: “Окинавæ (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Окинавæ”
- Panjabi: “ਓਕਿਨਾਵਾ”
- Persian: “استان اوکیناوا”
- Polish: “Okinawa”
- Polish: “Prefektura Okinawa”
- Portuguese: “Okinawa”
- Pushto: “اوکيناوا”
- 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”
- Somali: “Okinawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوکیناوا اوستانی”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Окінава”
- Urdu: “اوکیناوا پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Okinawa”
- Vietnamese: “Okinawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Okinawa”
- Welsh: “Okinawa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع اوکیناوا”
- Wu Chinese: “冲绳县”
- Yue Chinese: “沖繩縣”
- “Oquinahua”
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