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Virtualtripping, presents Naha, the capital city of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa.
By Mark on July 7, 2010
Naha is the capital city of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, which is an island south of mainland Japan in Asia, it a modern city which was discovered on May 20, 1921. This city though had been around for many centuries and is one of the most important and populous sites in the Ryukyu Islands. You will find Naha city on the coast, located on the East China Sea coast of the southern part of Okinawa Island, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands.
This city is a very modern and up to date city, it is know for it’s political, economic and educational center of Okinawa Prefecture. But back in the medieval time and in the very early modern periods, of Okinawa island, it was also the commercial center of the Ryūkyū Kingdom.
As i have mentioned earlier in this post, Okinawa Island happens to be the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, it is also the home to Naha, which is the capital of Okinawa Prefecture. What i have learn’t about Okinawa island is has an area of 1,201.03 square kilometers (463.7 sq mi), and is roughly 400 miles (640 km) south of the rest of Japan.
![Seiden @ Shurijo Castle Park [ Naha / Okinawa ]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/2438440327_69836412ab.jpg)
So what is Okinawa Prefecture, this is when you have lots of islands that create a chain, that for example with the Okinawa islands it consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over 1,000 km long, this chain goes on from which southwest from Kyūshū (the southwesternmost of Japan’s main four islands) to Taiwan. So the Okinawa Islands are approximately half-way between Kyūshū and Taiwan. There are also a group of islands known as Senkaku Islands, these islands though are disputed, this means that they are under Japanese control, but they are also being claimed by both the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China as part of Taiwan ProvinceToucheng Township in Yilan County, they are at present under administration, as part of Okinawa Prefecture.
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3 Responses to “Virtualtripping, presents Naha, the capital city of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa.”
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
12:38 pm on July 8th, 2010
Looks nice. Must take the family there sometime.
7:21 pm on July 8th, 2010
Thanks Nick, there will be more about this wonderful Japanese islands coming soon.
11:26 am on July 10th, 2010
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