Tokunoshima
Tokunoshima is one of the Amami Islands. Together with Amami Oshima, Iriomote and the northern part of the Okinawa Island it was listed as a natural world heritage site by UNESCO in 2021.
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kagoshima, Japan
- Also known as: “Toku-no-shima”, “Toku-no-sima”, and “Tokunoshima Island”
- Historically known as: “Crown Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amagi.
Amagi
Town
Amagi is a town on the northwest coast of Tokunoshima, in Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, in the northern Ryukyu Islands of Japan. As of 1 February 2025, the town had an estimated population of 5,464 in 3095 households and a population density of 68 persons per km2.
Tokunoshima
- Category: landform
- Location: Amami Islands, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.7735° or 27° 46′ 24″ north
Longitude
128.9484° or 128° 56′ 54″ east
Population
27,000
Elevation
142 metres (466 feet)
IATA airport code
TKN
Open location code
7QVCQWFX+99
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Tokunoshima” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Tokunoshima”
- Cebuano: “Tokuno Shima”
- Central Okinawan: “徳之島”
- Chinese: “德之岛”
- Chinese: “德之島”
- Czech: “Tokunošima”
- Dutch: “Toku-no-shima”
- Finnish: “Tokunoshima”
- French: “île Tokuno”
- French: “Toku no shima”
- French: “Tokuno-shima”
- French: “Tokunoshima”
- German: “Tokunoshima”
- Hebrew: “טוקונושימה”
- Indonesian: “Tokunoshima”
- Italian: “Isola di Tokunoshima”
- Japanese: “徳之島”
- Korean: “도쿠노섬”
- Korean: “도쿠노시마 섬”
- Lithuanian: “Tokunošima”
- Persian: “توکونوشیما”
- Piemontese: “Toku”
- Russian: “Токуносима”
- Slovenian: “Tokunoshima”
- Slovenian: “Tokunošima”
- Spanish: “Tokunoshima”
- Swedish: “Tokunoshima”
- Thai: “โทกูโนชิมะ”
- Turkish: “Tokunoshima”
- Ukrainian: “Токуносіма”
- Vietnamese: “Tokunoshima”
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