Yonaguni
Sign in to save, one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost island of Japan, lying between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea. A mere separate the island from Taiwan at their closest points. It is administered as the town of Yonaguni, Yaeyama Gun, Okinawa, and there are three settlements: Sonai, Kubura, and Higawa. There have been discussions to establish direct ferry services with Taiwan in order to bolster tourism.
Key facts
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- Yonaguni
- Islands.native_name
- Dunan
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- Map of Yonaguni Island
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- Japan Ryukyu Islands#Japan
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- Location##Location in Japan
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- Pacific OceanEast China Sea
- Islands.archipelago
- Yaeyama Islands
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- 28.88
- Islands.highest_mount
- Mount Urabu
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- 471
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- Japan
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- Region
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- Kyushu
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- Prefecture
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- Okinawa Prefecture
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- Town
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- Yonaguni, Okinawa
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Mythical and cultural references
- Geography
- Climate
- Main sights
- Yonaguni Monument
- Irizaki
- Agarizaki
- Southeast coast
- Transportation
- See also
- References
- External links
, one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost island of Japan, lying between the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea. A mere separate the island from Taiwan at their closest points. It is administered as the town of Yonaguni, Yaeyama Gun, Okinawa, and there are three settlements: Sonai, Kubura, and Higawa. There have been discussions to establish direct ferry services with Taiwan in order to bolster tourism.
==Name== The name Yonaguni is an exonym related to the native name Dunan in Yonaguni, with the regular sound change of *y- to d- and elision of the intervocalic *-g- in Yonaguni. The form yona- likely means "grain, rice", seen in other toponyms such as Yonabaru, hence possibly meaning "grain country".