Japanese islands, viewed from Mt. Shiude in Mitoyo, Kagawa prefecture. Japan has recounted its islands – and discovered it has 7,000 more than it previously thought.
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Japan is one of the most popular destinations and as you probably know, it's an island nation. And the last time Japan counted all of their islands, they had 6,852 of them. But they've just done a recount, and they now have 14,125! That's right; Japan just found over 7,000 “new” islands.
Japan conducted a recount of its number of islands amid criticism that the figures weren't correct. Geographers are expected to add more than 7,000 islands to the count. The number of islands in Japan is expected to more than double after 7,000 new islands it didn't know existed were discovered. Well, kind of.
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