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  1. Southernmost of the main islands of Japan,
  2. separated from Shikoku and Honshu by Bungo
  3. Channel and Suo Bay, but connected to Honshu
  4. by bridge and rail tunnel area 42,150 sq
  5. km/16,270 sq mi, including about 370 small
  6. islands capital Nagasaki towns Fukuoka,
  7. Kumamoto, Kagoshima physical mountainous,
  8. volcanic, with subtropical climate features
  9. the active volcano Aso-take (1,592 m/5,225
  10. ft) with the world's largest crater products
  11. coal, gold, silver, iron, tin, rice, tea,
  12. timber population (1986) 13,295,000.
  13.