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Ogasawara National Park

National Park

Ogasawara National Park protects the Ogasawara, or Bonin, Islands roughly 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan, designated on October 16, 1972 and covering about 66 square kilometers across the Chichijima, Hahajima and Mukojima island groups. The islands returned to Japanese administration in 1968 after a period of American occupation and were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 for their exceptional biodiversity, including 441 recorded plant taxa and the critically endangered Bonin flying fox, the islands' only native mammal.

Facts
Designation Category
National Park 2
Established Year
1972 2
Area (sq km)
1279.78 2
Governing Body
Ministry of the Environment (Japan) 1
Classification
Governance Type
Governance by Government 1
Realm
Terrestrial 1
International Designation
UNESCO World Heritage Site 1
Governing Body
Governing Body (category)
Ministry of the Environment 1
Sources
1. Ogasawara National Park (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikipedia lead extract, realm terrestrial
    Ogasawara National Park (小笠原国立公園, Ogasawara Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park in the Ogasawara Islands, located approximately one thousand kilometres to the south of Tokyo, Japan.
  • Wikipedia infobox, governing_body field
    Ministry of the Environment (Japan)
  • entity-description, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
    The islands returned to Japanese administration in 1968 after a period of American occupation and were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011 for their exceptional biodiversity, including 441 recorded plant taxa and the critically endangered Bonin flying fox, the islands' only native mammal.
  • Wikipedia infobox, governance-type government
    Ministry of the Environment (Japan)
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2. Wikidata: Ogasawara National Park
  • Wikidata Q1206471, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
  • Wikidata Q1206471 P31 instance-of
  • Wikidata Q1206471 P571 inception
  • Part Of: Japan, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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