Karafuto

English

Etymology

From 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

Japanese

Romanization

Karafuto

1. Rōmaji transcription of からふと