Yonaguni
Yonaguni, one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost island of Japan, lying between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea. A mere 107.4 kilometers separate the island from Taiwan at their closest points.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan
- Also known as: “Island Yonaguni”, “Kumi Island”, “Yo-nakuni Sima”, “Yonagun-shima”, “Yonaguni-shima”, “Yonagunijima”, “Yonakokujima”, “Yonakuni-jima”, and “Yonakuni-shima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yonaguni Airport and Yonaguni Monument.
Yonaguni Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Si-take., CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yonaguni Airport, is a third-class airport located in Yonaguni, Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Yonaguni Monument
Photo: Vincent Lou, CC BY 2.0.
The Yonaguni Monument, also known as the Yonaguni Submarine Ruins, is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yonaguni Town and Kubura.
Yonaguni Town
Town
Yonaguni is a town located entirely on Yonaguni Island in Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is the westernmost municipality in Japan, and is known for billfish fishing and as a diving spot.
Yonaguni
- Category: landform
- Location: Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Yonaguni” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Yonaguni”
- Albanian: “Younaguni”
- Azerbaijani: “Yonaquni”
- Basque: “Yonaguni”
- Catalan: “Yonaguni”
- Cebuano: “Yonaguni-jima”
- Central Okinawan: “ユナグニジマ”
- Central Okinawan: “与那国”
- Chinese: “Yonaguni Tó”
- Chinese: “与那国岛”
- Chinese: “與那國島”
- Czech: “Jonaguni”
- Dutch: “Yonaguni”
- Finnish: “Yonaguni”
- French: “île Yonaguni”
- French: “Yonaguni-jima”
- French: “Yonaguni”
- Galician: “Yonaguni”
- German: “Yonaguni”
- Hebrew: “יונאגוני”
- Hungarian: “Jonaguni”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Yonaguni”
- Indonesian: “Yonaguni”
- Italian: “Yonaguni”
- Japanese: “よなぐにじま”
- Japanese: “与那国島”
- Korean: “요나구니섬”
- Lithuanian: “Jonagunis”
- Malay: “Yonaguni”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yonaguni-tó”
- Persian: “یوناگونی”
- Polish: “Yonaguni”
- Portuguese: “Yonaguni”
- Russian: “Йонагуни”
- Serbian: “Јонагуни”
- Shona: “Yonaguni”
- Slovenian: “Jonagunidžima”
- Slovenian: “otok Jonaguni”
- Spanish: “Yonaguni”
- Swedish: “Yonaguni”
- Turkish: “Yonaguni Adası”
- Turkish: “Yonaguni”
- Ukrainian: “Йонаґуні”
- Vietnamese: “Yonaguni”
- Wu Chinese: “与那国岛”
- Yue Chinese: “與那國島”
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