Yaeyama Subprefecture

Yaeyama Subprefecture (八重山支庁, Yaeyama-shichō) was a subprefecture of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It was abolished in March 2009. Most of its functions were taken over by the Yaeyama Office of the prefecture.

It included the following cities and towns of Yaeyama and Senkaku Islands:

• Ishigaki (city on Ishigaki and Senkaku Islands)
• Taketomi (town on Iriomote, Taketomi, Kohama, Kuroshima, Hateruma, Hatoma, and others)
• Yonaguni (town on Yonaguni)

Offices

• Yaeyama Subprefecture: 438-1 Maezato, Ishigaki-shi, Okinawa-ken. 907-0002

External links

• (in Japanese) Official website

24°20′25″N 124°11′16″E / 24.340299°N 124.187861°E / 24.340299; 124.187861

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Okinawa Prefecture

Naha (capital)

Core city

• Naha

Cities

• Ginowan
• Ishigaki
• Itoman
• Miyakojima
• Nago
• Nanjō
• Okinawa
• Tomigusuku
• Urasoe
• Uruma

Districts

• Miyako District
  • Tarama
• Yaeyama District
  • Taketomi
  • Yonaguni
• Kunigami District
  • Kin
  • Motobu
  • Ginoza
  • Higashi
  • Ie
  • Kunigami
  • Nakijin
  • Onna
  • Ōgimi
• Nakagami District
  • Chatan
  • Kadena
  • Nishihara
  • Kitanakagusuku
  • Nakagusuku
  • Yomitan
• Shimajiri District
  • Haebaru
  • Kumejima
  • Yaese
  • Yonabaru
  • Aguni
  • Iheya
  • Izena
  • Kitadaitō
  • Minamidaitō
  • Tokashiki
  • Tonaki
  • Zamami

List of mergers in Okinawa Prefecture

Hydrographic

Cape Hedo

Cape Irizaki

Henoko Bay

Kokuba River

Lake Man

Miyako Strait

Nakagusuku Bay

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