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[1] [2] Japan is the fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia. According to a survey conducted by the Japan Coast Guard in 1987, the number of islands in Japan was 6,852. At that time, the survey only ...
The island of Hokkaidō is located in the north of Japan, near Russia (Sakhalin Oblast). It has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (to the west of the island), the Sea of Okhotsk (to the north), and the Pacific Ocean (to the east). The center of the island is mountainous, with volcanic plateaux.
Japan has 14,125 [1] islands, approximately 430 islands are inhabited. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, or claimed by, Japan . List
The other 14,120 islands are classified as "remote islands" by the Japanese government. [9] [11] The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main islands. The territory covers 377,973.89 km 2 (145,936.53 sq mi). [2] It is the fourth-largest island country in the world and the largest island country in East Asia. [12]
Galešnjak (also called Island of Love, Lover's Island, Otok za zaljubljene, Love Island) is located in the Pašman Canal of the Adriatic, between the islands of Pašman and the town of Turanj on mainland Croatia. It is one of the world's few naturally occurring heart-shaped objects.
Indonesia is the world's largest island country by area (1,904,569 km 2), and by total number of islands (17,504 islands). [4] It is also the world's most populous island country, with a population of over 270 million (the fourth most populous country in the world, after India, China, and the United States).
The Shiretoko Peninsula (知床半島, Shiretoko-hantō) is located on the easternmost portion of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, protruding into the Sea of Okhotsk.It is separated from the Russian Kunashir Island by the Nemuro Strait.
Chichijima (父島) is the largest and most populous island in the Japanese archipelago of Bonin or Ogasawara Islands.Chichijima is about 240 km (150 mi) north of Iwo Jima. 23.5 km 2 (9.1 sq mi) in size, the island is home to about 2,120 people (2021). [1]