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18  INTRODUCING JAP AN Wakkanai

Putting Japan on the Map Spassk-Dal’niy Otoineppu
Dal’negorsk
Nayoro
Japan is made up of four main islands – Honshu, Abashiri
Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku – and several Arsen’yev Kitami
thousand smaller ones, lying to the east of R U S S I A Asahikawa
main land Asia, in the northwest of the Pacific Nemuro
Ocean. The archipelago curves across 3,000 km Vladivostok Kushiro
(1,900 miles) between Russia’s Sakhalin Nakhodka Sapporo Obihiro
Island and Taiwan. Urahoro
Oshamanbe Tomakomai Hokkaido
Muroran
Mori
Hakodate
Okinawa Archipelago Naze
Amami
Island
Ryukyu Tokuno Aomori
Island
Islands
Hirosaki
East China Kuji
Sea Island Naha Okinawa Morioka
Kume
Island Akita
Ph i lippine Yokote
Sea Sakata Honshu
Miyako Ishinomaki
Yaeyama Islands Islands 0 kilometers 100 Tsuruoka
Iriomote Ishigaki Island 0 miles 50 Yamagata Sendai
Island
Sado Niigata
Island Fukushima
S ea of J apan Aizu-Wakamatsu
Yongju Kashiwazaki
Taejon (East Sea)
Toyama Nagano Utsunomiya
Takasaki
S O U T H Taegu Kanazawa Mito Oarai
K O R E A Fukui Chino
TOKYO
Tottori Kofu Kawasaki
Matsue Maizuru Tsuruga
Sunch’on Pusan Gifu Chiba
Yokohama
Nagoya
Himeji Kyoto Shizuoka
Toyohashi
Kobe
Hiroshima Kurashiki Okayama Osaka
Yamaguchi Takamatsu Nara Ise
Shimonoseki
Tokuyama Tokushima Wakayama
Fukuoka
Matsuyama
Kochi Tanabe
P acif ic
Kurume
Oita Shikoku
Shanghai, Nagasaki Ocean
Qingdao Kumamoto
Yatsushiro Nobeoka
East Kyushu
China Sea Sendai Miyazaki
Kagoshima Shibushi
For keys to symbols see back flap Okinawa Okinawa

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Eyewitness Travel LAYERS PRINTED:
Orientations template “UK” LAYER
(Source v1.3)
Date 6th November 2012
Size 125mm x 217mm