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| Capital | Naha (那覇) |
| Region: | Kyushu (九州) |
| Island: | Okinawa |
| Area - Total | Ranked 44th 2,271.30 kmē |
| Population | Ranked 32nd 1,318,218 |
| Districts: | 5 |
| MunicipalitiesA municipality or general-purpose district (see also: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. Municipalities are not necessa: | 53 |
| ISO 3166-2ISO 3166-2 codes for Japan cover 47 prefectures. The first part is the ISO 3166-1 code JP for Japan, the second part is two-digit-numeric. The purpose of this family of standards is to establish a worldwide series of short abbreviations for places, for us: | JP-47 |
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| Pref. FlowerA flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction''. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, and: | Deigo (Erythrina variegata) |
| Pref. TreeThis article is about the biological organisms known as trees. For other meanings of the word see tree (disambiguation). oak tree in Denmark A tree can be defined as a large perennial woody plant. Though there is no set definition of size, it is generally: | Ryukyumatsu |
| Pref. BirdFor other meanings of bird see bird (disambiguation). Many see text Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. There are almost 9000 known species of birds in: | Okinawa woodpeckerMany, see text. Woodpeckers are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes. They have a world-wide distribution with many species, usually numbered at 218 (including the Ivory-billed). Some woodpeckers and wrynecks in the order Piciformes have zygodacty (Sapheopipo noguchii) |
Okinawa Prefecture ( JapaneseThe Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. The Japanese name for the language is Nihongo . History and classification Historical linguists do not all agree about the origin of the Japanese language; there are several comp 沖縄県; OkinawanOkinawan (Okinawan Uchinaaguchi is a Ryukyuan language spoken in Japan on the southern island of Okinawa, as well as the surrounding islands of Kerama, Kume-jima, Tonaki, Aguni, and a number of smaller islands located to the east of the main island of Oki Uchinā) is Japan's southernmost prefecture, and consists of 169 islands known as The Ryukyu Islands or Ryukyus, in an island chain over 1000 km long, which extends southwest from Kyushu (the southwesternmost of Japan's main four islands) to Taiwan, 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 Honto, which is approximately half-way between Kyushu and Taiwan. The disputed Senkaku Islands are also theoretically administered as part of Okinawa prefecture.