Encyclopedia > Shikoku

  Article Content

Shikoku

Shikoku (四国, "four provinces") is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan. It contains the prefectures of Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi, and Tokushima.

Population: 4.5 million. Area: 18,292 km².

Mount Ishizuchi in Ehime at 1982m is the highest mountain on the island.



See also: Geography of Japan, List of regions in Japan



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Great River, New York

... households out of which 41.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 70.9% are married couples living together, 7.3% have a female householder with no husband ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 31.3 ms