Yakushima
Yakushima is an island off the south east coast of Kyushu next to Tanegashima and north of Okinawa in Japan. Officially a part of Kagoshima Prefecture, it is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.Notable Places in the Area
Localities in the Area
Yakushima
Yakushima is a town located in Kumage District, Kagoshima, Japan.Yakushima
Latitude
30.3333° or 30° 20' northLongitude
130.5° or 130° 30' eastPopulation
13,200Elevation
1,742 metres (5,715 feet)IATA airport code
KUMGeoNames ID
1848730Wikidata ID
Q242176Yakushima Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: ياكوشيما
- Armenian: Յակուշիմա
- Azerbaijani: Yakuşima
- Basque: Yakushima
- Belarusian: Яку
- Catalan: Yakushima
- Cebuano: Yaku-shima
- Chinese: 屋久岛
- Chinese: 屋久島
- Croatian: Yakushima
- Czech: Jakušima
- Dutch: Yakushima
- English: Yaku-shima
- English: Yaku Island
- Esperanto: Jakuŝima
- Estonian: Yaku-shima
- Estonian: Yaku
- Estonian: Yaku saar
- Estonian: Yakushima
- Finnish: Yakushima
- French: Yaku
- French: Yaku-shima
- French: Yakushima
- French: Yaku shima
- French: Île de Yakushima
- French: Île de yaku
- Galician: Yakushima
- Georgian: იაკუშიმა
- German: Yakushima
- Hebrew: יקושימה
- Hungarian: Jakusima
- Indonesian: Yakushima
- Italian: Yaku-shima
- Italian: Yakushima
- Japanese: 屋久島
- Japanese: 屋久島スギ原始林
- Japanese: 屋久島杉原始林
- Javanese: Yakushima
- Korean: 야쿠섬
- Korean: 야쿠시마
- Lithuanian: Jakušima
- Macedonian: Јакушима
- Maithili: याकुशिमा
- Malayalam: യാകുഷിമ
- Mingrelian: იაკუშიმა
- Nepali: याकुशिमा
- Norwegian: Yakushima
- Norwegian Bokmål: Yakushima
- Panjabi: ਯਾਕੁਸ਼ਿਮਾ
- Persian: یاکوشیما
- Polish: Yaku-shima
- Polish: Yakushima
- Portuguese: Yakushima
- Romanian: Yakushima
- Russian: Яку
- Russian: Якусима
- Russian: Якушима
- Scots: Yakushima
- Shona: Yakushima
- Slovak: Jakušima
- Spanish: Yaku-shima
- Spanish: Yakushima
- Swedish: Yakushima
- Thai: ยากูชิมะ
- Thai: เกาะยากุ
- Turkish: Yakushima
- Turkish: Yakuşima
- Ukrainian: Острів Яку
- Ukrainian: Острів Якусіма
- Ukrainian: Якусіма
- Ukrainian: Якушіма
- Vietnamese: Yakushima
- Welsh: Yakushima
- Wu Chinese: 屋久岛
- Yue Chinese: 屋久島
- Yaku-jima
- Yaku Iisland
- Yaku Sima
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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 Yakushima. Photo: Σ64, CC BY 3.0.