Place names・Okinawa

IriomoteIriomote

Also known as: 西表

Read not "nishiomote" but "Iriomote." It is the leading example of Okinawa's reading of west as "iri" and east as "agari," and Iriomote Island is also a World Natural Heritage site, home to the Iriomote cat.

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