ryukyu islands

English Thesaurus

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) (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	archipelago,
definition	:	a group of many islands in a large body of water (noun.object)

part holonym	:	okinawa,
definition	:	the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands (noun.location)

part meronym	:	japan, nihon, nippon,
definition	:	a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building (noun.location)