Tanegashima
Tanegashima is one of the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, 444.99 km2 in area, is the second largest of the Ōsumi Islands, and has a population of 33,000 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kagoshima, Japan
- Also known as: “Tane Island”, “Tane-ga-Sima”, and “Tane-shima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Tanegashima Airport.
New Tanegashima Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Tubame2004, CC BY-SA 3.0.
New Tanegashima Airport, also known as Tanegashima Airport, is located in Nakatane, on Tanegashima, one of the Ōsumi Islands in southern Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Tanegashima
- Category: landform
- Location: Nakatane, Kumage-gun, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Tanegashima from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Tanegashima” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Taneqaşima”
- Basque: “Tanegashima”
- Belarusian: “Танегасіма”
- Bulgarian: “Танигашима”
- Catalan: “Tanegashima”
- Cebuano: “Tanega Shima (pulo sa Hapon, Kagoshima-ken)”
- Cebuano: “Tanega Shima”
- Chinese: “种子岛”
- Chinese: “種子島”
- Czech: “Tanegašima”
- Dutch: “Tanegashima”
- Esperanto: “Tanegaŝima”
- Finnish: “Tanegashima”
- French: “île Tanega”
- French: “Tanega-shima”
- French: “Tanegashima”
- German: “Tane-ga-shima”
- German: “Tanegashima”
- Hebrew: “טנגשימה”
- Indonesian: “Tanegashima”
- Italian: “Tanegashima”
- Japanese: “種子島”
- Korean: “다네가섬”
- Korean: “다네가시마 섬”
- Korean: “다네가시마”
- Korean: “종자도”
- Korean: “타네가시마”
- Lithuanian: “Tanegašima”
- Macedonian: “Танегашима”
- Malay: “Tanegashima”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanegashima”
- Norwegian: “Tanegashima”
- Persian: “تانهگاشیما”
- Polish: “Tanegashima”
- Portuguese: “Tanegashima”
- Portuguese: “Tanegaxima”
- Russian: “Танегасима”
- Russian: “Танэгасима”
- Serbian: “Танегашима”
- Slovenian: “Tanegašima”
- Spanish: “Isla Tanegashima”
- Spanish: “Tanegashima”
- Swedish: “Tanega-shima”
- Swedish: “Tanegashima”
- Tamil: “டனேகசிமா”
- Turkish: “Tanegashima”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Тане”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Танегасіма”
- Ukrainian: “Танегасіма”
- Ukrainian: “Танегашіма”
- Vietnamese: “Tanegashima”
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