南城 (Nanjō)

南城 (Nanjō) is a city of 39 thousand¹ located in southeastern Okinawa Island, Okinawa Prefecture, ⽇夲 (Nippon or Japan). The city was established in 2006.² The UNESCO World Heritage Site, "Gusuku [castle] Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryuku," includes one site in the city: Sefa-utaki [-sacred natural place],³ which was holy to both the pre-assimulation Ryukans and later to Shintos.⁴

External references

Sefa-utaki (sacred site), Nanjō, Nippon (Japan)

Footnotes

1. 2008 figure from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanj%C5%8D,_Okinawa, accessed 7/3/2014.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusuku_Sites_and_Related_Properties_of_the_Kingdom_of_Ryukyu, accessed 7/3/2014.
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefa-utaki, accessed 7/3/2014.