Tokara Islands
The Tokara Islands are a small archipelago in Japan, south of Kyushu and north of the Amami Islands. They are also sometimes known as the Toshima Islands, lit.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Island
- Description: island group in Japan
- Also known as: “Linschoteninseln”, “Linshoten Island”, “Shichi To”, “Togara-guntō”, and “Tokara-guntō”
Tokara Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Tokara Islands” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Տոկարա”
- Azerbaijani: “Tokara adaları”
- Cebuano: “Tokara-rettō”
- Chinese: “Tokara Lia̍t-tó”
- Chinese: “吐噶喇群岛”
- Chinese: “吐噶喇群島”
- Czech: “Tokara”
- Dutch: “Tokara-eilanden”
- French: “îles Tokara”
- French: “Îles Tokara”
- French: “Tokara-rettō”
- German: “Tokara-Inseln”
- German: “Tokara-retto”
- German: “Tokara-rettō”
- Italian: “Isole Tokara”
- Japanese: “トカラ列島”
- Japanese: “トカラ諸島”
- Japanese: “吐喝喇列島”
- Japanese: “吐噶喇列島”
- Japanese: “吐噶喇諸島”
- Korean: “도카라 열도”
- Korean: “도카라 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Tokara salos”
- Lithuanian: “Tokaros salos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tokara Lia̍t-tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tokaraøyene”
- Norwegian: “Tokaraøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر توکارا”
- Polish: “Wyspy Tokara”
- Russian: “Токара”
- Shona: “Zvitsuwa zve Tokara”
- Slovenian: “Tokarski otoki”
- Spanish: “Islas Tokara”
- Swedish: “Tokaraöarna”
- Turkish: “Tokara Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Токара”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Tokara”
- Vietnamese: “Tokara”
- Yue Chinese: “吐噶喇群島”
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