Japanese archipelago

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archipelago geographical region

The Japanese archipelago is a chain of islands in East Asia that forms the country of Japan, stretching from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south.

Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form	Occurrences
Japanese Archipelago	5
Japan archipelago	2
Japan Archipelago	1
Japan island arc	1
Japanese Islands	1
Japanese home islands	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	archipelago ⓘ geographical region ⓘ
borderedBySea	East China Sea ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ Philippine Sea ⓘ Sea of Japan ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	Japan ⓘ
countryCapitalOnIslands	Tokyo ⓘ
extendsFrom	Hokkaido ⓘ
extendsTo	Okinawa Prefecture ⓘ surface form: Okinawa
governingBody	Government of Japan ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	seismically active ⓘ volcanic origin ⓘ
hasClimateRegion	subarctic (Hokkaido) ⓘ subtropical (Ryukyu Islands) ⓘ
hasHighestPoint	Mount Fuji ⓘ
hasHistoricalName	Japanese archipelago self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Japanese Islands
hasIslandGroup	Izu Islands ⓘ Nanpō Islands ⓘ Nansei Islands ⓘ Ogasawara Islands ⓘ Ryukyu Islands ⓘ Nansei Islands ⓘ surface form: Sakishima Islands
hasMajorIsland	Hokkaido ⓘ Honshu ⓘ Kyushu ⓘ Okinawa Island ⓘ Shikoku ⓘ
hasNeighboringCountryAcrossSea	China ⓘ North Korea ⓘ Russia ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Formosa ⓘ surface form: Taiwan
hasSea	Seto Inland Sea ⓘ
hasStrait	Kanmon Straits ⓘ Korea Strait ⓘ Tsugaru Strait ⓘ
locatedIn	East Asia ⓘ Northern Pacific Ocean ⓘ surface form: North Pacific Ocean Northern Pacific Ocean ⓘ surface form: Northwestern Pacific Ocean
partOf	Ring of Fire ⓘ
primaryClimate	temperate ⓘ
primaryLanguage	Japanese ⓘ
separates	Pacific Ocean ⓘ Sea of Japan ⓘ
sovereignState	Japan ⓘ
tectonicSetting	subduction zone ⓘ
usedAs	core territory of Japan ⓘ

Referenced by (21)

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

Philippine Sea Plate → associatedWith → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese Archipelago

Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan → belongsToIslandGroup → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

subject surface form: Kashiwara

this entity surface form: Japanese Archipelago

Ring of Fire → contains → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese Archipelago

Operation Olympic → geographicScope → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese home islands

Japanese archipelago → hasHistoricalName → Japanese archipelago self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese Islands

Northern Pacific → hasPart → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese Archipelago

Izumiotsu → locatedIn → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japan archipelago

Katsuragi, Nara Prefecture, Japan → locatedIn → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japan archipelago

Saga → locatedIn → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japan Archipelago

Matsubara → locatedInArchipelago → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

Japan Trench → nearbyIslandArc → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japan island arc

Hokkaido → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

Honshu → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

Japanese Alps → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

Kansai region → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

Kyushu → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

Kyushu Mountains → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

Northeastern Japan Arc → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Japanese Archipelago

Shikoku Mountains → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

western Japan → partOf → Japanese archipelago ⓘ

subject surface form: Western Japan

Japonic languages → region → Japanese archipelago ⓘ