Shikoku
Shikoku is an oft-forgotten island in Japan. The smallest of Japan's Big Four with around four million inhabitants, it lies to the south of Honshu. The island is thought of as a rural backwater, with few must-see attractions, but a visit there can wash away those doubts; the mountainous inner regions offer some good hiking.| Tap on the map to travel |
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Destinations
Tokushima
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Tokushima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku.
Kagawa
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Kagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku.
Ehime
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Ehime Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku.
Kochi
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Kōchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku.
Shikoku
- Type: Region with 4,000,000 residents
- Description: fourth largest island of Japan
- Categories: island and island of Japan
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
33.75° or 33° 45' northLongitude of centre
133.5° or 133° 30' eastPopulation
4,000,000Elevation
607 metres (1,991 feet)GeoNames ID
1852486Wikidata ID
Q13991Shikoku Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Shikoku
- Afrikaans: Sjikokoe
- Albanian: Shikoku
- Arabic: Shikoku
- Arabic: شيكوكو
- Armenian: Սիկոկու
- Asturian: Rexón de Shikoku
- Azerbaijani: Şikoku
- Balinese: Shikoku
- Banjar: Shikoku
- Bashkir: Сикоку
- Basque: Shikoku
- Belarusian: Сікоку
- Bengali: শিকোকু
- Bosnian: Shikoku
- Bosnian: Šikoku
- Breton: Shikoku
- Bulgarian: Шикоку
- Catalan: Shikoku
- Cebuano: Shikoku
- Central Kurdish: شیکۆکو
- Chinese: Sikoku
- Chinese: 四国
- Chinese: 四國
- Chinese: 四國地方
- Croatian: Shikoku
- Czech: Šikoku
- Danish: Shikoku
- Dutch: Shikoku
- Egyptian Arabic: شيكوكو
- Esperanto: Ŝikokuo
- Estonian: Shikoku
- Finnish: Shikoku
- French: Shikoku
- Galician: Shikoku
- Georgian: სიკოკუ
- German: Schikoku
- German: Shikoku
- Greek: Σικόκου
- Hakka Chinese: Si-koet
- Hausa: Shikoku
- Hebrew: שיקוקו
- Hindi: शिकोकू
- Hungarian: Sikoku
- Icelandic: Shikoku
- Iloko: Shikoku
- Indonesian: Shikoku
- Irish: Shikoku
- Italian: Shikoku
- Japanese: 四国
- Japanese: 四国地方
- Kazakh: Сикоку
- Khmer: តំបន់ស៊ីកុគឹ
- Kirghiz: Сикоку
- Korean: 시코쿠
- Kurdish: Shikoku
- Lao: Shikoku
- Latin: Insula Shikokuensis
- Latin: Sicocus
- Latin: Xicoca
- Latin: Xicoca Insula
- Latvian: Sikoku
- Latvian: Šikoku
- Literary Chinese: 四國
- Lithuanian: Šikoku
- Macedo-Romanian: Shikoku
- Macedonian: Шикоку
- Malay: Shikoku
- Malayalam: ഷികോകു
- Marathi: शिकोकू
- Min Nan Chinese: Sù-kok
- Mingrelian: სიკოკუ
- Nepali: सिकोकु
- Northern Frisian: Shikoku
- Norwegian: Shikoku
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shikoku
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Shikoku
- Occitan (post 1500): Shikoku
- Ossetian: Сикоку
- Pampanga: Shikoku
- Panjabi: ਸ਼ਿਕੋਕੂ
- Persian: شیکوکو
- Polish: Sikoku
- Portuguese: Shikoku
- Quechua: Shikoku
- Romanian: Shikoku
- Russian: Сикоку
- Russian: Ши-Коку
- Russian: Шикок
- Russian: Шикоку
- Samogitian: Šėkoku
- Sardinian: Shikoku
- Scots: Shikoku
- Scottish Gaelic: Shikoku
- Serbian: Шикоку
- Serbo-Croatian: Shikoku
- Serbo-Croatian: Šikoku
- Sinhala: ෂිකෝකු
- Slovak: Šikoku
- Slovenian: Šikoku
- South Azerbaijani: شیکوکو
- Spanish: Región de Shikoku
- Spanish: Shikoku
- Sundanese: Shikoku
- Swahili: Shikoku
- Swedish: Shikoku
- Tagalog: Shikoku
- Tamil: சிகொக்கு
- Tatar: Сикоку
- Thai: เกาะชิโกกุ
- Thai: เกาะชิโกะกุ
- Tok Pisin: Shikoku
- Turkish: Shikoku
- Uighur: شىكوكۇ
- Ukrainian: Шікоку
- Urdu: شیکوکو
- Vietnamese: Shikoku
- Vietnamese: Xi-cô-cư
- Waray (Philippines): Shikoku
- Welsh: Shikoku
- Western Frisian: Sjikokû
- Western Panjabi: شیکوکو
- Wu Chinese: 四国岛
- Yue Chinese: 四國
- Shikoku-chihō
- Shikoku Chiho
- Shikoku Chihō
- កោះស៊ិកុគឹ
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Shikoku. Photo: Yurinokuni, CC0.