Japan (Okinawa)
On
this page you will find a map of Japan (Okinawa)
and some information about the country. The map is a detail of a Map
of the World published by Planet
Poster Editons in Germany.
This
Map of the World costs 11.50 Euros, it is described in detail at www.planetposter.de
(only in German) and can be ordered at www.wissenladen.de.
Official name of country: Nippon
Official script of the country: Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji
Capital: Tokyo.
Number
of inhabitats: see www.citypopulation.de.
Map
of Japan (Okinawa) with surrounding
areas. - Landkarte von Japan (Okinawa).
- Mapa de Japón (Okinawa). - Carte du Japon (Okinawa).
Japan's capital is Tokyo, which is also the biggest city of the country. Flights to Japan usually go to Tokyo. Japan consists of many islands, the most important being Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku. Important other cities are Sapporo, Asahikawa and Kushiro on Hokkaido; Sendai, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Yokohama, Niigata, Morioka, Akita and Aomori on the main island of Honshu, and Fukuoka and Kagoshima on Kyushu. The highest mountain peak is the Fuji-san on Honshu with 3776 m altitude.
Okinawa is located along an island arc between the Pacific Ocean and the Eastern China Sea, extending from Kyushu to Taiwan. The islands of Amami-O-shima and Sakishima-gunto also form part of this island arc.
The official language of Japan is Japanese. On Hokkaido, Ainu is spoken, but this language has no official status.
It is not easy to write Japanese. With Hiragana and Katakana there are two syllabic alphabets, all Japanese words could easily be written with either one (and in fact, this is done for example in comics, which appear in Hiragana).
Hiragana was developed more than 1000 years ago from Chinese script characters and was mainly used by women. Katakana was invented later, by monchs, and was mainly used by men. Katakana is used more rarely today, for example in foreign loanwords and for emphasis (equivalent to bold characters in Latin). In daily business, Japanese is usually written in Kanji characters, borrowed from the Chinese script, and of which some 5-10000 can be used, whatever you like. Official texts are restricted to a limit of 2200 Kanji characters. Some old Kanji characters were simplified, with different simplifications having been implied in Japan than in script reforms in China. The result is that Chinese would not be able to read some Japanese Kanji characters today.
The names of geographic localities in Japanese maps appear nearly entirely in Kanji characters. So we did not quote the Hiragana spellings for the localities. The result is that no proper "Japanese" characters appears on our maps, all over Japan looks Chinese.
Tourism is of relativelly low importance in Japan. Most travellers go there for business purposes. We would appreciate more detailed information, also about tourism, flights, or individual tours to Japan.
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of the World with original scripts (original size 70 x 100
cm), from which the detailed map shown above has been cut out. The numbers of
city inhabitants and vegetational zones were researched by hand for every country,
by using the sources listed below. This procedure prevented the map from containing
traditional errors provoked by simply copying such information from previous
maps.
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on which the information contained in this map is based:
The
vegetational base map was aligned with satellite pictures from Google
Earth.
The
official names of the countries are quite well researched at www.geonames.de.
Also here you can find information on the geography of many countries: www.geographixx.de.
The
numbers of inhabitants of the cities were taken from www.citypopulation.de.
And
the mountain peak altitudes were largely derived form www.peakbagger.com.
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