Kunashir Island
Facts
19 propertiesLocation
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 44.070°, 145.770°[15]
- Located in or next to body of water
- Sea of Okhotsk, Pacific Ocean[8][9]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Kunashiri District[2][3][4]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Greater Kuril Ridge[16]
Population and size
- Area
- +1489.27
- Elevation above sea level
- +1819
- Length
- +123
Codes
More facts +6
- Part of
- Greater Kuril Ridge[12]
- Capital
- Yuzhno-Kurilsk[11]
- History of topic
- history of Kunashir
- Significant event
- Treaty of Shimoda[17]
- Width
- +30
- VIAF cluster ID
- 252683590
- BabelNet ID
- 03799940n
- FAST ID
- 1246637
- Freebase ID
- /m/03ntx2
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2940737
- GeoLOD ID
- m6kNIk
- GeoNames ID
- 2124018
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 1007750
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2121881
- Lex ID
- Kunasjir
- NDL Authority ID
- 00628436
- Namuwiki ID
- 쿠나시르섬
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- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007541526405171
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX6072704
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 2409701
- State Catalogue of Geographical Names (Russia) ID
- 0261790
- Topic's main category
- Category:Kunashir Island
- Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
- kunasir
- Wikimapia ID
- 1426103
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["Island", "Kunashir"]
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Summary
Kunashir Island is an island[1].
Body
Geography
Country listings include Russia[5], a sovereign state[24], in Russia[25], founded in 1991[26]; Japan[6], a sovereign state[27], in Japan[28], founded in -0660[29]; and Russian Empire[7], an empire[30], in Russian Empire[31], founded in 1721[32]. Located in include Yuzhno-Kurilsky District[2], an urban okrug in Russia[33], in Russia[34], founded in 1946[35]; Hokkaido[3], a prefecture of Japan[36], in Japan[37]; and Kunashiri District[4], a district of Japan[38], in Japan[39], founded in 1879[40]. Adjacent water bodies include Sea of Okhotsk[8], a marginal sea[41], in Russia[42] and Pacific Ocean[9], an ocean[43].
Physical Characteristics
Kunashir Island covers an area of 1489.27 km²[44]. It sits at an elevation of 1819 m[45]. Its length is recorded as 123 km[46].
Cultural Significance
Things named for Kunashir Island include Japanese escort Kunashiri[47], a kaibokan[48] and Oxytropis kunashiriensis[49], a taxon[50].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Japanese escort Kunashiri[47], a kaibokan[48] and Oxytropis kunashiriensis[49], a taxon[50].