After Japan recounted the number of its islands, it discovered that it contained more than 7,000 new islands.
And the (CNN) website stated that the digital mapping of the Japanese Geospatial Information Authority revealed that there are 14,125 islands in the Japanese territory, more than double the approved number of 6,852, which was officially used in the 1987 report, by the Japanese Coast Guard, and thus There are more than 7 thousand islands that Japan did not know anything about.
However, the Japan Geospatial Information Authority stressed this week that the new figure reflects advances in surveying technology and map detail used in the census, as it does not change the total land area of Japan.
She said that while there was no international agreement on how the islands were calculated, she used the same standard of size as the previous survey, conducted 35 years ago.
This required the enumeration of all naturally formed areas of land with a circumference of at least 100 meters (330 ft). The new figure does not include any artificially reclaimed land.
