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RYUKYU ISLANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Ryukyu Islands"):
Okinawa (the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands)
Holonyms ("Ryukyu Islands" is a part of...):
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
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