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The Izu Islands are divided into two towns (Oshima and Hachijojima) and six villages (the remaining inhabited islands.) Three subprefectures are formed above the municipalities as branch offices of the metropolitan government. [citation needed] All the islands (more than a dozen in total) lie within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
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The island is a basalt pillar with sheer sides, the only visible portion of a submarine volcanic caldera extending 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) south-east at an average depth of 240 metres (790 ft). The above sea-level portion measures approximately 84 metres east-west and 56 metres north-south, with a summit height of 99 metres (325 ft).
The island is administered by the village of Aogashima, which is subordinate to the Hachijō Subprefecture, which itself is governed by the City of Tokyo. The island has an area of 8.75 km 2 (3.38 sq mi), and, as of 2014, its population is a mere 170 people. This means that the village of Aogashima has the smallest population of any ...
As with the other islands in the Izu Island group, Izu Ōshima forms part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. [2] Izu Ōshima, at 91.06 km 2 (35.16 sq mi) is the largest and closest of Tokyo's outlying islands, which also include the Ogasawara Islands.
View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap Licensing ... Relief map of Izu Ōshima island, Izu Islands, Tokyo, Japan.
Kōzu-shima (神津島) is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea. [1] The island is administered by Tōkyō and is located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of the Miyake-jima and 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) southwest of the Nii-jima. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands, a group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago.
Hachijō-jima is about 200 km (120 mi) south of the Izu Peninsula [1] —or about 287 km (178 mi) south of Tokyo [2] —in the Pacific Ocean. [3] The smaller island of Hachijō-kojima is 7.5 km (4.7 mi) northwest of Hachijō-jima, [4] and can be seen from the top of Nishiyama. [2]