page_title: Yonaguni
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Yonaguni / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Taipei (T'ai-pei, Taihoku), Taiwan and surrounding areas from the International Map of the World 1:1,000,000
context_page_description: Yonaguni, one of the Yaeyama Islands, is the westernmost inhabited island of Japan, lying 108 kilometers from the east coast of Taiwan, between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean proper. The island is administered as the town of Yonaguni, Yaeyama Gun, Okinawa, and there are three settlements: Sonai, Kubura, and Higawa.
context_section_description: The island has an area of 28.88 km² (11.15 sq mi), a population around 1,700, an annual mean air temperature of 23.9 °C (75.0 °F), and annual precipitation of 3,000 millimeters (120 in).
  Yonaguni, more specifically Cape Irizaki 24°26′58″N 122°56′01″E at the western tip of the island, is the westernmost point of Japan. The island is situated in the middle of the Yonaguni Depression, a relatively deep gap in the Ryukyu arc, where the warm Kuroshio Current enters the East China Sea from the Pacific Ocean. 
  According to Japanese anthropologist  Yousuke Kaifu, the island of Yonaguni can be seen with the naked eye from Taroko Mountain in Taiwan under good weather conditions.
caption: Map including Yonaguni (labeled as YONAGUNI-SHIMA) from the International Map of the World (1954)
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