Yaeyama
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Yaeyama may refer to:
- Yaeyama IslandsYaeyama IslandsThe Yaeyama Islands are a group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.The isles are the remotest part of Japan from the main islands and contains Japan's most southern and most western inhabited islands.The islands form the southern part of the volcanic Nansei Islands...
, an archipelago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan - Yaeyama District, OkinawaYaeyama District, Okinawais a district located in Okinawa, Japan. The district covers all of the Yaeyama Islands except Ishigaki and the disputed Senkaku Islands.As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 5,579 and the density of 15.37 persons per km²...
, an administrative division covering most of the Yaeyama Islands - Yaeyama languageYaeyama languageYaeyama is a Ryukyuan language that is spoken in the Yaeyama Islands, the southernmost inhabited island group in Japan, with a combined population of about 50,000 . The Yaeyama Islands are situated to the southwest of the Miyako area of the Ryukyus and to the east of Taiwan. Yaeyama is most...
, a language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands - Japanese ship YaeyamaJapanese ship YaeyamaYaeyama may refer to one of several naval ships of Japan:, a Japanese-built cruiser of French design built for the Imperial Japanese Navy; participated in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War; scrapped in 1911, a World War II minelayer in the Imperial Japanese Navy; sunk by...
, the name of several Imperial Japanese Navy ships