Okinawa Island

Map of the Battle of Okinawa at Punchbowl Cemetery in Honolulu

Japanese: 沖縄島 (Okinawajima), 沖縄本島 (Okinawa hontou)

Okinawa Island is the largest and most populous island in Okinawa prefecture and in the Ryûkyû Islands. It is home to Naha, the current prefectural capital and former chief port of the Ryûkyû Kingdom, and Shuri, the former royal capital of the Kingdom, today a part of Naha City.

Okinawa has an average annual rainfall of 87.5 inches, with a lush sub-tropical climate year-round, and experiences monsoons and typhoons in summer through autumn.

The island covers a land area of 748 sq miles, and average population density on the island is 2,630 people per square mile.^[1] For comparison, the island of O'ahu (home to Honolulu) has a population density around 1500 people per square mile, and a land area of 604 sq miles.^[2]

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References

↑ Richard Pearson, Ancient Ryukyu, University of Hawaii Press (2013), 8.
↑ Hawaii, Lonely Planet (2009), 52, 99.

[1] Richard Pearson, Ancient Ryukyu, University of Hawaii Press (2013), 8.

[2] Hawaii, Lonely Planet (2009), 52, 99.

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