What the records say
- When
- 1968
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Bonin Islands
- Coordinates
- 27.10° N, 142.20° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Area km2
- 100
- Gaining
- Japan
- Losing
- United States
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Bonin Islands
Japanese archipelago in the North Pacific Ocean
The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands , are a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) SSE of Tokyo and 1,600 kilometers (1,000 mi) northwest of Guam. The group as a whole has a total area of 84 square kilometers (32 sq mi) but only two of the islands are permanently inhabited, Chichijima and Hahajima.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation