Southern Okinawa
Southern Okinawa, also known by its historical name Shimajiri, is the southernmost part of Okinawa Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Vitalie Ciubotaru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 61,000 residents
- Description: city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Ichuman”, “Itoman”, “Itoman, Okinawa”, “Shionja”, “Shunja”, “Sunja”, and “Sunza”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Itoman Post Office and Himeyuri Peace Museum.
Himeyuri Peace Museum
Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Himeyuri Peace Museum opened in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in 1989. Located within Okinawa Senseki Quasi-National Park, it is dedicated to the Himeyuri Student Corps during the Battle of Okinawa and to the ideal of Peace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yaese.
Yaese
Town
Photo: Hykw-a4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yaese is a town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Yaese was formed on January 1, 2006 by a merger between the town of Kochinda and the village of Gushikami.
Southern Okinawa
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.1234° or 26° 7′ 24″ northLongitude
127.666° or 127° 39′ 58″ eastPopulation
61,000Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Open location code
7QR94MF8+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 568023583OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1861280Wikidata ID
Q860662
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Satellite Map
Discover Southern Okinawa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Southern Okinawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إتومان، أوكيناوا”
- Arabic: “إتومان”
- Asturian: “Itoman”
- Azerbaijani: “İtoman”
- Bengali: “ইটোম্যান”
- Bulgarian: “Итоман”
- Catalan: “Itoman”
- Cebuano: “Itoman Shi”
- Cebuano: “Itoman”
- Central Okinawan: “イチュマン”
- Central Okinawan: “糸満市”
- Chechen: “Итоман”
- Chinese: “Itoman-chhī”
- Chinese: “丝满市”
- Chinese: “糸满市”
- Chinese: “糸滿市”
- Chinese: “絲滿”
- Chinese: “絲滿市”
- Czech: “Itoman”
- Danish: “Itoman”
- Dutch: “Itoman”
- Finnish: “Itoman”
- French: “Itoman”
- Galician: “Itoman”
- German: “Itoman”
- Greek: “Ιτομάν”
- Gujarati: “ઇટોમેન”
- Hindi: “इटोमान”
- Hungarian: “Itoman”
- Indonesian: “Itoman, Okinawa”
- Indonesian: “Itoman”
- Irish: “Itoman”
- Italian: “Itoman”
- Japanese: “Itoman-shi”
- Japanese: “いとまん”
- Japanese: “いとまんし”
- Japanese: “糸満”
- Japanese: “糸満市”
- Japanese: “糸満町”
- Kannada: “ಇಟಾಮನ್”
- Korean: “이토만시”
- Latvian: “Itomana”
- Literary Chinese: “絲滿市”
- Lithuanian: “Itomanas”
- Malagasy: “Itoman”
- Malay: “Itoman”
- Marathi: “इटोमन”
- Mazanderani: “ایتومان، اوکیناوا”
- Mazanderani: “ایتومان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Itoman-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Itoman”
- Persian: “ایتومان، اوکیناوا”
- Persian: “ایتومان”
- Polish: “Itoman”
- Portuguese: “Itoman”
- Romanian: “Itoman”
- Russian: “Итоман”
- Sinhala: “ඉටෝමන්”
- Spanish: “Itoman”
- Swedish: “Itoman”
- Tagalog: “Itoman, Okinawa”
- Tagalog: “Itoman”
- Tajik: “Itoman”
- Tajik: “Итоман”
- Tamil: “இட்டோமான்”
- Tatar: “Итоман”
- Telugu: “ఇతోమాన్”
- Thai: “อิโตมัง”
- Tumbuka: “Itoman”
- Turkish: “Itoman”
- Ukrainian: “Ітоман”
- Urdu: “اتومان”
- Uzbek: “Itoman”
- Vietnamese: “Itoman, Okinawa”
- Vietnamese: “Itoman”
- Waray (Philippines): “Itoman, Okinawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Itoman”
- Yue Chinese: “絲滿”
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