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    Okinawa City (沖縄市, Okinawa-shi, Japanese: [okinawa]) is the second-largest city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, following Naha, the capital city. It is located...
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    of Okinawa Prefecture Okinawa Islands, an island group including Okinawa itself Okinawa (city), the second largest city in the prefecture Okinawa may...
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    Okinawa Island (沖縄島, Okinawa-jima, Okinawan: 沖縄/うちなー, Uchinaa Kunigami: ふちなー, Fuchináa), officially Okinawa Main Island (沖縄本島, Okinawa-hontō), is the largest...
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  • This is a list of cities and districts of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan: Ginowan Ishigaki Itoman Miyakojima (Formerly Hirara, Gusukube, Irabu, Shimoji, Ueno)...
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    mi). Naha is the capital and largest city, with other major cities including Okinawa, Uruma, and Urasoe. Okinawa Prefecture encompasses two thirds of...
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    Ginowan-shi) (Okinawan: ジノーン, romanized: Jinōn) is a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2024, the city has an estimated population of 100,319, with...
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    Naha (redirect from Naha, Okinawa)
    Nāfa or Nafa) is the capital city of Okinawa Prefecture, the southernmost prefecture of Japan. As of 1 June 2019, the city has an estimated population...
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    ʔIcuman) is a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The city occupies the southern tip of Okinawa Island. As of 1 October 2020, the city has an estimated...
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    The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg,: 17  was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island...
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    Urasoe (浦添市, Urasoe-shi, Okinawan: Urashii) is a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The neighboring municipalities are Naha to the south, Ginowan...
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  • Katsuren (勝連町, Katsuren-chō) was a town located in Nakagami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is on the Katsuren Peninsula. It was founded around...
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    The Okinawa Arena, also provisionally known as the Okinawa City Multi-Purpose Arena, is an indoor arena in Okinawa, Japan. It was opened in 2021 and is...
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    トゥミグシク, romanized: Tumigushiku) is a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the city has an estimated population of 64,612...
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    Okinawa City Gymnasium is an arena in Okinawa, Okinawa, Japan. It is the home arena of the Ryukyu Golden Kings of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball...
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    Okinawa Uno, also called Colonia Okinawa or simply Okinawa, is a small city and municipality of Bolivia, located in Ignacio Warnes Province in Santa Cruz...
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  • Shoukichi Kina (category People from Okinawa (city))
    Shoukichi Kina (喜納昌吉, Kina Shōkichi, born June 10, 1948 in Koza, Okinawa), is a Japanese rock musician and politician. He, along with his band Champloose...
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    Okinawa Island. The village is bound to the north by Onna, to the east by Okinawa City, to the south by Kadena, and to the west by the East China Sea. 31.5%...
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  • Hirara-shi), (Miyako: Pїsara) was a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on the island of Miyako. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of...
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    Uruma (redirect from Uruma, Okinawa)
    Uruma-shi) is a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The modern city of Uruma was established on April 1, 2005, when the cities of Gushikawa and...
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    Tamlyn Tomita (category People from Okinawa (city))
    Japanese-American (nisei), was born January 27, 1966, on a U.S. military base in Okinawa and grew up in Los Angeles. Her Japanese-American father was in an internment...
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  • Ōzato (大里村, Ōzato-son) was a village located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Ōzato Castle is located here. It is named after Nanzan's...
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    Denny Tamaki (category People from Uruma, Okinawa)
    current Governor of Okinawa Prefecture since August 2018. Tamaki was a member of the Okinawa Prefectural Assembly for Okinawa City from 2002 to 2005 and...
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    Camp Foster (category United States Armed Forces in Okinawa Prefecture)
    in Ginowan City with portions overlapping into Okinawa City, Chatan town and Kitanakagusuku village in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa Island. It is...
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    United States Marine Corps base located in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. It was named after Marine Corps Major General and twice Medal of Honor...
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    Miyakojima (宮古島市, Miyakojima-shi, Miyako: Myaaku, Okinawan: Naaku) is a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, located on the Miyako Islands. As of 2012, it had...
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    Ginoza-son, Okinawan: Jinuza) is a village located in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of March 2022, the village had a population of 6...
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    Ishikawa (石川市, Ishikawa-shi, Okinawan: Ishichā) was a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on September 26, 1945. It was named after...
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    Leisha Hailey (category People from Okinawa (city))
    Okinawa, USCAR (now Japan) to American parents, Hailey grew up in Bellevue, Nebraska. At 17, she came out as lesbian before moving to New York City to...
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    Kunigami and Okinawan: Mutubu) is a town located in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2016, the town has an estimated population...
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    with the old cities of Gushikawa and Ishikawa to form the new city of Uruma. "Kadena Air Base, Higashi, Kadena, Nakagami District, Okinawa -, Japan Sunrise...
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