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Okinawa

oki·nawa

UK/ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwə/ US/ˌəʊkiːˈnɑːwə/ uncommon

noun

1.

the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands

2.

a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans

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Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).

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