‘Okinawa Prefecture‘ (沖縄県) is Japan‘s 日本国 (Highlighting JAPAN, Prime Minister of Japan) southernmost prefecture, and consists of 160 islands (the island of 49 manned and uninhabited 111) named The Ryukyu Islands or Ryukyus, in an island chain over 1000km long, which extends south west from Kyushu九州 (the south western most of Japan’s main four islands) to Taiwan台湾, although the northern islands in the chain are part of Kagoshima prefecture. Okinawa’s capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of the largest and most populous island, Okinawa Hontou 沖縄本島[mainland Okinawa], which is approximately half-way between Kyushu and Taiwan.
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