Nanpō Islands

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The Nanpō Islands are a chain of Japanese Pacific islands south of the main archipelago, including groups such as the Volcano Islands and the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nanpō Islands canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf archipelago
island chain
administeredBy Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
contains Aogashima
Chichijima
Hachijō-jima
Hahajima
Iwo Jima
Miyakejima
country Japan
geologicallyPartOf Izu–Bonin Arc
surface form: Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc
hasAlternativeName Habomai Islands
surface form: Nampo Islands

Nanpō-shotō
hasClimate subtropical climate
tropical climate
hasEcologicalStatus endemic species habitat
important seabird habitat
hasJapaneseName Spratly Islands
surface form: 南方諸島
hasPart Ogasawara Islands
surface form: Bonin Islands

Izu Islands
Minami-Tori-shima
Nishinoshima
Ogasawara Islands
Okinotorishima
Volcano Islands
hasSignificantFeature remote oceanic islands
volcanic islands
hasSubregion Izu Islands
Marcus Island
surface form: Marcus Island region

Ogasawara Islands
Volcano Islands
historicallyOccupiedBy United States of America
surface form: United States
locatedIn Pacific Ocean
Philippine Sea
locatedInRegion East Asia
locatedInTimeZone Japan Standard Time
locatedOnTectonicFeature Izu–Ogasawara Trench
surface form: Izu–Bonin Trench
locatedSouthOf Japanese archipelago
surface form: Japanese main archipelago
partOf Japanese archipelago
Tokyo Prefecture
surface form: Tokyo Metropolis
returnedTo Japan
sovereignState Japan
usedFor military purposes
nature conservation
tourism

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Volcano Islands partOf Nanpō Islands
Japanese archipelago hasIslandGroup Nanpō Islands
Kita Iōtō partOf Nanpō Islands