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World Heritage Sites in Kyushu & Okinawa

6 of Japan's 27 World Heritage sites are in the Kyushu & Okinawa region (serial properties that span several regions appear in each).

• Yakushima 屋久島
  1993 · Natural · Kagoshima
• Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu 琉球王国のグスク及び関連遺産群
  2000 · Cultural · Okinawa · 9 components
• Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining 明治日本の産業革命遺産 製鉄・鉄鋼、造船、石炭産業
  2015 · Cultural · Yamaguchi, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Saga, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Iwate, Shizuoka · 23 components
• Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region 「神宿る島」宗像・沖ノ島と関連遺産群
  2017 · Cultural · Fukuoka · 8 components
• Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 長崎と天草地方の潜伏キリシタン関連遺産
  2018 · Cultural · Nagasaki, Kumamoto · 12 components
• Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island 奄美大島、徳之島、沖縄島北部及び西表島
  2021 · Natural · Kagoshima, Okinawa · 4 components