Okinawa Island

Okinawa Island, 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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Naha and Central Okinawa.

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is the capital of the in and is the main city on Okinawa Island. It has a population of around 317,000, which is about a quarter of the total population of the island.

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Chatan is a town located in , , . As of October 2016 the town had an estimated population of 28,578 and the density of 2,100 per km2.

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Motobu is a town located in , , . As of October 2016, the town has an estimated population of 13,441 and a density of 250 persons per km2.

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Explore places such as Iheya-Izena Islands.

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The are a small group of the islands to the north of Okinawa Island.

Okinawa Island

  • Type: Island with 1,470,000 residents
  • Description: smallest of the five main islands of Japan
  • Also known as: “Grand Liuqiu”, “Grand Lu-chew”, “Grand Ryukyu”, “Great Nansei”, “Great Ryukyu”, “Okinava”, “Okinava I.”, “Okinava Is.”, “Okinava Island”, “Okinawa”, “Okinawa I.”, “Okinawa Is.”, “Okinawa island”, “Okinawa Main Island”, and “Okinawa Shima”
  • Historically known as: “Great Liu Kiu”
  • Location: , , , , ,
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Latitude of center
26.5° or 26° 30′ north
Longitude of center
127.9333° or 127° 56′ east
Population
1,470,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 568018275
Geo­Names ID
1854346
Wiki­data ID
Q600614
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Okinawa Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Okinawa-eilande”
  • Afrikaans: “Okinawa”
  • Albanian: “Okinava”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة أوكيناوا”
  • Armenian: “Օկինավա կղզի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Okinava adası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Okinava”
  • Basque: “Okinawa”
  • Belarusian: “Акінава”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Акінава”
  • Bosnian: “Okinava”
  • Bosnian: “Okinawa”
  • Bulgarian: “Окинава”
  • Catalan: “illa d’Okinawa”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Okinawa”
  • Catalan: “Okinawa”
  • Cebuano: “Okinawa”
  • Central Okinawan: “ジジ”
  • Central Okinawan: “地下”
  • Chinese: “Okinawa Tó”
  • Chinese: “沖繩島”
  • Chinese: “沖繩本島”
  • Chuvash: “Окинава”
  • Croatian: “Okinawa”
  • Czech: “Okinawa”
  • Danish: “Okinawa”
  • Dutch: “Okinawa”
  • Esperanto: “Okinava insulo”
  • Estonian: “Okinawa”
  • Finnish: “Okinawa”
  • French: “Île d’Okinawa”
  • French: “Île Okinawa”
  • French: “Okinawa”
  • Galician: “Illa de Okinawa”
  • Galician: “Okinawa Honto”
  • Georgian: “ოკინავა”
  • German: “Okinawa Hontō”
  • German: “Okinawa-jima”
  • German: “Okinawa”
  • Greek: “Οκινάουα”
  • Hawaiian: “Okinawa Nui”
  • Hebrew: “אוקינאווה”
  • Hebrew: “האי אוקינאווה”
  • Hungarian: “Okinava”
  • Hungarian: “Okinawa Hontō”
  • Iban: “Pulau Okinawa”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Okinawa”
  • Italian: “isola di Okinawa”
  • Italian: “Isola di Okinawa”
  • Japanese: “沖縄島”
  • Japanese: “沖縄本島”
  • Kannada: “ಓಕಿನಾವ”
  • Kazakh: “Окинава”
  • Khmer: “កោះអូគីណាវ៉ា”
  • Kirghiz: “Окинава”
  • Korean: “오키나와 섬”
  • Korean: “오키나와섬”
  • Kurdish: “Girava Okinawayê”
  • Latin: “Okinawa”
  • Latvian: “Okinava”
  • Lithuanian: “Okinavos sala”
  • Macedonian: “Окинава”
  • Malay: “Pulau Okinawa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Okinawa Tó”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Okinawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Okinawa”
  • Norwegian: “Okinawa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Okinawa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oquinava”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ocinawa”
  • Ossetian: “Окинавæ”
  • Persian: “جزیره اوکیناوا”
  • Polish: “Okinawa”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Okinawa”
  • Portuguese: “Okinawa”
  • Romanian: “Insula Okinawa”
  • Romanian: “Okinawa”
  • Russian: “Окинава”
  • Sardinian: “Okinawa”
  • Scots: “Okinawa Island”
  • Serbian: “Окинава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okinava”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okinawa”
  • Shona: “Chitsuwa che Okinawa”
  • Sinhala: “ඔකිනාවා දූපත”
  • Slovak: “Okinava”
  • Slovak: “Okinawa”
  • Slovenian: “Okinava”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Okinawa”
  • Swedish: “Okinawa”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng Okinawa”
  • Tamil: “ஓக்கினாவா தீவு”
  • Thai: “เกาะโอกินาวะ”
  • Turkish: “Okinawa Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Окінава”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Окінава”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ اوکیناوا”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo chính Okinawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Okinawa bán đảo”
  • Vietnamese: “Okinawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Okinawa”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Okinawa”
  • Wu Chinese: “冲绳岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “沖繩島”
  • “ma Okinawa”

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