ryukyu islands

1. 1.

   a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofJapan

   PartsOkinawa

Questions about ryukyu islands

What does ryukyu islands mean?

ryukyu islands means "a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972)".

Is ryukyu islands a common word?

ryukyu islands is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.