Yaeyama Islands
The Yaeyama Islands are an archipelago in the southwest of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and cover 591.46 square kilometres. The islands are located southwest of the Miyako Islands, part of the Ryukyu Islands archipelago.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ishigaki and Yonaguni.
Ishigaki
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Ishigaki is the second-largest and the most populated island of the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa, Japan. The whole island belongs to the City of Ishigaki, which also includes the deserted Senkaku islands.
Yonaguni
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Yonaguni, one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost island of Japan, lying 108 kilometers from the east coast of Taiwan, between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.
Iriomote
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Iriomote Island is the largest of the Yaeyama Islands of Japan, and the second largest in Okinawa Prefecture after Okinawa Island itself. The island has an area of 289.27 km2 and a 2005 population of 2,347.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Taketomi and Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park.
Taketomi
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Taketomi is one of the Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa, Japan. This small island just north of the tropics with its picturesque beaches and architecture is a popular getaway especially for domestic visitors.
Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park
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Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park is a national park in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is located on and around the Yaeyama Islands of the East China Sea.
Hateruma
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Hateruma is an island in the Yaeyama District of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is the southernmost inhabited island in Japan. It is one of the Yaeyama Islands, and is located 24 kilometres south of Iriomote-jima, the largest of the island group.
Kuro
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Kuro Island, often referred to by its full Japanese name Kuroshima, is one of the smaller of the Yaeyama Islands of Japan.
Kohama
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Kohama Island is an island in the Yaeyama Islands group at the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands chain, and part of Taketomi, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Hatoma
Hatoma is a tiny flyspeck of an island north of Iriomote in the Yaeyama Islands of southern Okinawa, Japan.Yaeyama Islands
- Type: Island with 53,600 residents
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Yaeyama Group”, “Yaeyama-guntō”, “Yaeyana-gunto”, and “Yayeyama Rettō”
- Category: island group
- Location: Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yue Chinese—“Yaeyama Islands” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Yaeyama adaları”
- Basque: “Yaeyama Uharteak”
- Catalan: “Illes Yaeyama”
- Cebuano: “Yaeyama-rettō”
- Chinese: “Yaeyama Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “八重山”
- Chinese: “八重山群岛”
- Chinese: “八重山群島”
- Chinese: “八重山诸岛”
- Chinese: “八重山諸島”
- Czech: “Jaejama”
- Dutch: “Yaeyama-archipel”
- Dutch: “Yaeyama-eilanden”
- French: “îles Yaeyama”
- French: “Îles Yaeyama”
- French: “Yaeyama-rettō”
- Galician: “Illas Yaeyama”
- German: “Yaeyama-Inselgruppe”
- German: “Yaeyama-Inseln”
- German: “Yaeyama-shotō”
- German: “Yaeyama”
- Greek: “Γιαεγιάμα”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Γιαεγιάμα”
- Hebrew: “איי יאיאמה”
- Hungarian: “Jaejama-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Yaeyama”
- Italian: “Isole Yaeyama”
- Japanese: “八重山列島”
- Japanese: “八重山群島”
- Japanese: “八重山諸島”
- Korean: “야에야마 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Jaejamos salos”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Yaeyama”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yaeyama Kûn-tó”
- Persian: “جزایر یائهیاما”
- Polish: “Wyspy Yaeyama”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Yaeyama”
- Russian: “Острова Яэяма”
- Russian: “Яэяма”
- Shona: “Zvitsuwa zve Yaeyama”
- Slovenian: “otoki Jaejama”
- Spanish: “Islas Yaeyama”
- Swedish: “Yaeyamaöarna”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะยาเอยามะ”
- Turkish: “Yaeyama Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Яеяма”
- Ukrainian: “Яеяма”
- Uzbek: “Yaeyama orollari”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Yaeyama”
- Yue Chinese: “八重山”
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