The are a group of 41 islands that belong to
Yamaguchi and
Ehime Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Ehime Prefecture has a population of 1,342,011 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 5,676 km2 (2,191 sq mi). Ehime Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the northeast, Toku ...
s in the
Inland Sea
An inland sea (also known as an epeiric sea or an epicontinental sea) is a continental body of water which is very large and is either completely surrounded by dry land or connected to an ocean by a river, strait, or "arm of the sea". An inland s ...
. The largest by far is
Suō-Ōshima, or Yashiro Island.
List of islands
The islands are categorized into the following groups:
*
Heigun-tō, 平郡島
*
Suō Oshima Islands
**
Suō-Ōshima, or Yashiro Island
**
Nasake-jima, 情島
**
Okikamuro Island, # 沖家室島
** 3 others
** 5 in the Kumage group
*
Kutsuna Islands (29)
**
Nakashima Island (Ehime)
**
Kuwaji Island, 津和地島
**
Newaji Island, 怒和島
**
Futakami Island, 二神島
**
Muzuki Island, 睦月島
**
Nogutsuna Island, 野忽那島
**
Yuri Island Yuri may refer to:
People and fictional characters
Given name
*Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc.
* Yuri (Japanese name), also Yūri, feminine Ja ...
, 由利島
**
Tsurushi Island
, also known simply as , was a Japanese torture technique used in the 17th century to coerce Christians (" Kirishitan") to recant their faith. The victim was hung head-down by the feet. Both Japanese and Western Christians are known to have be ...
, 釣島 (uninhabited)
**
Gogo Island
Go go or Gogo may refer to:
Geography
* Ghogha, India, a town once also known as Gogo
* Gogo, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso, a town
* Gogo, Zoundwéogo, Burkina Faso, a city
* Gogo Department, a department in central Burkina Faso
* Gogo Formatio ...
, 興居島 (uninhabited)
**
Hashima Island (Yamaguchi)
, commonly called , is a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about from the centre of the city. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island's most notable features are its abandoned concrete buildings, undistu ...
, 端島 (山口県) (uninhabited)
**
Hashira Island
is an island in southern Hiroshima Bay of the Inland Sea, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Located southeast of Iwakuni, it is part of the Kutsuna Islands within the Bōyo Islands group. The island covers and as of 2013 had a population of 184 res ...
, 柱島
** 18 more uninhabited
References
Archipelagoes of Japan
Islands of Ehime Prefecture
Islands of Yamaguchi Prefecture
Japanese archipelago
Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean
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