Awaji Island
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/23761
- Note
- "Awaji Island (淡路島, Awaji-shima) is an island in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea between the islands of Honshū and Shikoku. The island has an area of 592.17 square kilometres (228.64 square miles), and is the largest of the Inland Sea´s islands.
As a transit between those two islands, Awaji originally means "the road to Awa", the historic province bordering the Shikoku side of the Naruto Strait, now part of Tokushima Prefecture." - (en.wikipedia.org 01.12.2019) - Latitude
- 34.383335113525
- Longitude
- 134.83332824707
- Population
- 129,000
- Time zone
- Asia/Tokyo
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