Key facts
- Location
- Pacific Ocean
- Archipelago
- Ryukyu Islands
- Adjacent to
- East China Sea
- Major islands
- Okinawa Island , Kume Island , Kerama Islands
- Area
- 1,418.59 km (547.72 sq mi)
- Prefecture
- Okinawa Prefecture
- Largest settlement
- Naha (pop. 312,393)
- Population
- 1,285,003 (October 1, 2010)
- Pop density
- 908.8/km (2353.8/sq mi)
- Ethnic groups
- Ryukyuan , Japanese
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Ryukyu Islands
- Has part
- Iōtorishima
- Named after
- Okinawa
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Okinawa Prefecture
- Population
- 1280000
- Area
- 1415.65
- Elevation
- 503
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Body of water
- East China Sea
- Image
- Okinawa Islands ISS042.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Okinawa Islands
- Commons category
- Okinawa Islands
- language used
- Okinawan
- name in kana
- おきなわしょとう
- located in/on physical feature
- Ryukyu Islands
- topic has template
- Template:Okinawa Islands
- native label
- 沖縄諸島
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Encyclopedic overview
The Okinawa Islands (Japanese: 沖縄諸島 / 沖縄群島, Hepburn: Okinawa Shotō / Okinawa Guntō) are an island group in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and are the principal island group of the prefecture. The Okinawa Islands are part of the larger Ryukyu Islands group and are located between the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture to the northeast and the Sakishima Islands of Okinawa Prefecture to the southwest.
The Okinawa Islands, apart from the main island, contain three smaller island groups: the Kerama, Yokatsu and Iheya-Izena [ja; de] island groups.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okinawa Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.