Japanese Archipelago - Island Components

Island Components

The archipelago consists of 6,852 islands ("island" defined as land more than 100 m in circumference), of which 430 are inhabited. The four main islands, listed from north to south, are as followed:

  1. Hokkaidō
  2. Honshū
  3. Shikoku
  4. Kyūshū

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