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Lake Ikeda (池田湖湖, Ikeda-ko) is a caldera lake located 40 km (25 mi) south of Kagoshima city; Kyūshū island, Japan.It is perhaps best known to tourists as the location of the purported sightings of a monster named Issie, and as the largest lake on Kyūshū island [1] with a surface area of 11 km 2 (4.2 sq mi) and a shoreline length of 15 km (9.3 mi).
List of islands of Japan by area. ... This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, ... Kyushu: 36,782: 1,791: 12,970,479:
The historical regional name Saikaidō (西海道, lit. West Sea Circuit) referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands. Kyushu has a land area of 36,782 square kilometres (14,202 sq mi) and a population of 14,311,224 in 2018. [5] In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region. [6]
Rank Name Region Prefecture¹ Municipalities Water Area (km 2) Max Depth (m) Altitude (m) Volume (km 3) ; 1: Biwa: Kansai: Shiga: Ōtsu, Kusatsu, Higashi-Ōmi, Hikone Nagahama, Moriyama, Ōmi-Hachiman
On February 28, 2023, the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan announced that the number of islands had been updated to 14,125 through a recount using digital maps. Since there is no international standard for counting islands, only islands with a coastline of 100 meters or more were counted, as in the past.
Area Nation(s) Notes (km 2) (sq mi) 1 Afro-Eurasia: 79,810,726 [Note 4] 30,815,094 126 countries 6 de facto states. 48 countries on mainland Africa [Note 5] and 78 countries on mainland Eurasia (38 countries on continental Asia [Note 6] and 40 countries on continental Europe [Note 7]).
Place names in Okinawa Prefecture are drawn from the traditional Ryukyuan languages. Many place names use the unique languages names, while other place names have both a method of reading the name in Japanese and a way to read the name in the traditional local language. The capital city Naha is Naafa in the Okinawan language.
This article has multiple issues. ... Southern Kyushu Data Sum of 3 prefectures Area 19,139.71km 2: General Population 4,174,505 （May 2016） Pop Density