Minami Kojima

Island group within Ryukyu Islands

The Senkaku Islands are a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. They are located east of China, northeast of Republic of China, west of Okinawa Island, and north of the southwestern end of the Ryukyu Islands. They are known in mainland China as the Diaoyu Islands or Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands, in Republic of China as the Tiaoyutai Islands / Diaoyutai Islands, and in the Western World are sometimes impartially referred to by the historical name Pinnacle Islands. In Okinawan they are called yukunkubajima. In Yaeyama dialect, they are called iigunkubajima.

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