Sado Island
Sado Island is an island off the coast of Niigata in the Chubu region of Japan. The whole island forms a municipality, Sado City. The historical gold mines of the island became a cultural UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Kiyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: Japanese island
- Also known as: “Island Sado”, “Sado Sima”, “Sadogashima”, and “Sadoshima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Konpon-ji Temple.
Konpon-ji Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Konpon-ji Temple is a Buddhist temple.
Sado Island
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Satellite Map
Discover Sado Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yue Chinese—“Sado Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Sado”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сада”
- Belarusian: “Садо”
- Catalan: “Sado”
- Cebuano: “Sadoga Shima”
- Chinese: “佐渡岛”
- Chinese: “佐渡島”
- Croatian: “Sado (otok)”
- Croatian: “Sado”
- Czech: “Sado”
- Dutch: “Sado”
- Esperanto: “Sado”
- Finnish: “Sado (saari)”
- Finnish: “Sado”
- French: “île de Sado”
- French: “île Sadoga”
- French: “Sado-shima”
- French: “Sadoga-shima”
- Galician: “Illa de Sado”
- German: “Sado”
- Hebrew: “סאדו”
- Hebrew: “סדו”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Sado”
- Italian: “isola di Sado”
- Italian: “Isola di Sado”
- Japanese: “佐渡ヶ島”
- Japanese: “佐渡島”
- Korean: “사도가섬”
- Latin: “Insula Sadona”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sado”
- Norwegian: “Sado”
- Polish: “Sado”
- Romanian: “Insula Sado”
- Russian: “Садо”
- Slovenian: “Sado”
- Slovenian: “Sadošima”
- Spanish: “Isla Sado”
- Swedish: “Sado”
- Swedish: “Sadogashima”
- Turkish: “Sado Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Садо”
- Wu Chinese: “佐渡岛”
- Yue Chinese: “佐渡島”
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