Japan's island count more than doubled to more than 14,000 in its newest mapping surveyance endeavor.
islands? The answer is fairly simple, when the Japanese Coast Guard counted the islands 35 years ago, the technology was not able to distinguish between small clusters of islands and larger individual islands, meaning thousands of these islands were counted as one., which combined, have nearly doubled the island landmass Japan was previously thought to possess.
Researchers had tediously listed each island they found by hand but omitted not only the small islands but they also left out sandbanks and islands found within lakes and rivers. At the time, those landmasses were not considered islands but are now recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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