Japan has 6,852 islands. Approximately 430 are inhabited.
''Look Japan'', Vol. 43, Issues 493-504, p. 35
retrieved 2013-3-2. This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging or claimed by Japan.
claimed but not controlled
See also
* Geography of Japan
Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over along the Pacific coast of East Asia. It consists of 6,852 islands. The five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Okinawa. There are 6,847 remote ...
* List of islands of Japan
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands, of which approximately 260 are inhabited. Japan is the largest island country in East Asia and the fourth largest in the world.
Main islands
The four ''main islands'' of Japan are:Imperial Jap ...
* List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another plan ...
* Names of Japan
References
This article used material from Japanese Wikipedia page 日本の島の一覧, accessed 28 July 2017
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Islands
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
Lists of islands by area