Southern Okinawa
Southern Okinawa, also known by its historical name Shimajiri, is the southernmost part of Okinawa Island.- 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 Starbucks and Itoman Post Office.
Starbucks
Café
Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker at Seattle's Pike Place Market initially as a coffee bean wholesaler.
Himeyuri Peace Museum
Museum
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
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″ north
Longitude
127.666° or 127° 39′ 58″ east
Population
61,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
7QR94MF8+9C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- 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”
- Urdu: “ایتومان، اوکیناوا”
- Uzbek: “Itoman”
- Vietnamese: “Itoman, Okinawa”
- Vietnamese: “Itoman”
- Waray (Philippines): “Itoman, Okinawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Itoman”
- Yue Chinese: “絲滿”
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