Chūgoku region

The Chūgoku region (中国地方, Chūgoku-chihō) or San'in-San'yō region (山陰山陽地方, San'in san'yō-chihō) is the westernmost region of Honshū, the largest island of Japan. It consists of the prefectures of Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Tottori, and Okayama. The name literally means "middle country", a relic of a historical division of Japan into "near countries" (近国 kingoku, but in modern parlance Kinki), "middle countries" (chūgoku), and "far countries" (... more

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