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OCHA Regional Office for Asia Pacific JAPAN Issued: 17 December 2007 130° 135° 140° 145° Provinces of Japan CHINA 45° 1. Aiti 24. Miyazaki 2. Akita 25. Nagano 3. Ehime 26. Nagasaki 4. Gifu 27. Nara SEA OF 5. Gunma 28. Niigata OKH OTSK 6. Hirosima 29. Okayama RUSSIA 45° 8. Hokkaidoo 30. Okinawa 9. Hukui 31. Ooita 10. Hukuoka 32. Oosaka 33. Saga 11. Hukusima Nayoro 34. Saitama 12. Hyoogo 35. Siga 13.Dunhua Ibaraki 36. Simane 14. Isikawa 37. Sizuoka Asahikawa 15. Iwate 38. Tiba 16. Kagawa 39. Tokusima 17. Kagosima Tumen Vladivostok 40. Tookyoo Partizansk 8 18. Kanagawa 41. TotigiHunchun 19. HelongKooti 42. Toyama Nahodka Otaru Kushiro 20. Kumamoto 43. Wakayama Obihiro 21. Kyooto 44. Yamagata Sapporo 22. Mie 45. Yamaguti 23. Miyagi 46. Yamanasi Tomakomai Shizunai Hyesan Muroran DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S Hakodate REPUBLIC OF KOREA SEA OF JAPAN Ssangpoi-dong Mutsu Kizukuri Aomori 40° Misawa Hirosaki Hachinohe Noshiro Takanosu 40° 2 Akita 15 Morioka Miyako Honjo Kitakami Yokote Kamaishi Sakata Tsuruoka 44 Furukawa Ishinomaki Tendo 23 Yamagata Sendai Niigata REPUBLIC OF Yoshida KOREA 14 28 Nagaoka Kitakata 11 Koriyama PACIFIC OCEAN Toyama Numata Kanazawa Nagano 41 42 5 13 Hitachi 36 Ashikaga Maebashi Mito Ulsan Matsumoto 25 Fukui Kumagaya Tsukuba 9 34 Omiya Pusan 4 Kofu 40 Maizuru 35° Tottori Tokyo Matsue Gifu 46 Kawasaki Chiba Fukuchiyama 35 18 29 21 Yokohama Hamada 12 Otsu Yokkaichi Kyoto Okazaki Numazu 38 Masuda Himeji 1 35° Nagoya 37 Shizuoka 6 Okayama Osaka 45 Hiroshima Fukuyama Tsu 16 Kobe Nara KOREA STRAIT Yamaguchi Hamamatsu 3 Takamatsu 32 27 33 Shimonoseki 22 Kita-kyushu Ube Tokushima Wakayama 31 Matsuyama PHILIPPINE Fukuoka 39 Shimonoseki Ube Fukuyama 10 Kita-kyushu Ube SEA Sasebo 19Kochi 43 Kita-kyushu Aki Saga Sasebo Sasebo Uwajima Aki Oita Uwajima Aki Saiki 26 Saiki Uwajima Saiki Kumamoto Nagasaki 124° 128° 132° 20 Sendai 24 30° Nishinoomote Miyanoura CHINA National Capital Sendai 17 Miyazaki EAST CHINA 30° City, Town SEA Motomura Nakanoshima Kagoshima Major Airport Naze Roads Railroad EAST Okinawa Ferry CHINA Shoto River SEA 26° Nago ds Lake Sakishima lan Itoman Naha Is Shoto yu 30° uk 26° Provincial Boundary Ry Hirara International Boundary 020 40 80 120 Kilometers 30° Projection: JGD 2000, Japan Zone 10 Ishigaki Datum: WGS84 124° 128° 132° 0 20 40 80 120 Miles Map data sourceS: FAO, Global Discovery, VMAP 130° 135° 140° 145° The names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations Map Ref: OCHA_JPN_Country_v2b_071217 30 Naha.

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