250px, Nishisonogi Peninsula (top) and Nagasaki Peninsula (bottom) (Landsat image) The Nishisonogi Peninsula (西彼杵半島 ''Nishi-sonogi hantō'') is a peninsula in northwest

Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It is the north-northwesterly fork of a larger peninsula which also includes

Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the ...

and the

Nomo Peninsula The Nomo Peninsula in southern Nagasaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan is a peninsula extending 17 miles (27 km) south from the city center of downtown Nagasaki to Nomomachi on Kokudō 499. A large part of the peninsula is occupied by the which ...

. To its west is the

East China Sea The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated b ...

, while to the east it encloses

Ōmura Bay is a bay of the East China Sea in the centre of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Geography The bay measures about north-to-south and east-to-west. The length of the shoreline is about and the surface area is about . This corresponds with abo ...

. none, 250px, Location in southwest Japan

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