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Key facts
- Location
- Pacific Ocean
- Archipelago
- Yaeyama Islands
- Area
- 222.24 km (85.81 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 525.5 m (1724.1 ft)
- Highest point
- Mount Omoto
- Prefecture
- Okinawa Prefecture
- Population
- 47,564 (January 2019)
- Ethnic groups
- Ryukyuan , Japanese
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Yaeyama Islands
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Ishigaki
- Population
- 47666
- Area
- 222.25
- Elevation
- 529
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Highest point
- Mount Omoto
- Image
- Kabira Bay Ishigaki Island41s3s4500.jpg
- Width
- 20
- Length
- 35
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- located in/on physical feature
- East China Sea
- located in protected area
- Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park
- Commons category
- Ishigakijima
- different from
- Ishigaki
- native label
- 石垣島
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture Various scenes around Ishigaki Island, 2019
Ishigaki Island (Japanese: 石垣島; Yaeyama: Ishanagï; Okinawan: Ishigachi) is a Japanese island south-west of Okinawa Hontō and the second-largest island of the Yaeyama Island group, behind Iriomote Island. It is located approximately 411 km (255 mi) south-west of Okinawa Hontō. It is within the City of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture. The city functions as the business and transport center of the archipelago. The island is served by New Ishigaki Airport, the largest airport in the Yaeyamas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ishigaki Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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