Karafuto

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 樺太 (Karafuto)

Proper noun

Karafuto

1. Japanese name for Sakhalin (island in Russia)
2. a Japanese prefecture (Karafuto-chō) on the South Sakhalin, commonly called South Sakhalin from 1905 to 1945.

Translations

Sakhalin — see Sakhalin

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Japanese

Romanization

Karafuto

1. Rōmaji transcription of からふと