Japan has recounted its islands -- and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought.
Japan has recounted its islands – and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought. Digital mapping by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan recently found there to be 14,125 islands in Japanese territory, more than double the figure of 6,852 that has been in official use since a 1987 report by Japan’s Coast Guard.
That entailed counting all naturally occurring land areas with a circumference of at least 100 meters . The new number does not include any artificially reclaimed land. The islands surrounding Japan have been at the heart of several territorial disputes. Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands, which Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a dispute that dates to the end of World War II, when Soviet troops seized them from Japan.
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