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Hyoutanjima
Hyoutanjima. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Hyōtanjima (Japanese: 瓢箪島) is an uninhabited island in the Geiyo Islands chain in the Seto Inland Sea, in Japan. The island is split between Hiroshima Prefecture and Ehime Prefecture at a point where it is 74 metres (243 ft) wide, the country's shortest prefectural border.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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