shima

しま

island

Example

わたしの　くにには　たくさんの　しまが　あります。

There are a lot of islands in my country.

Tags for this word

• Place/Building
• Nature/Environment
• Basic Vocabulary

An island country

Like Japan, Indonesia is an island country. About 5000km from east to west, the island is an unusually long. This is around the same distance as Indonesia is from Japan. Straddling the equator, the country is comprised of over 17,500 islands of various sizes.

• nakaniwa
• hatake
• akarui
• aki
• atatakai