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阿留申群島

简阿留申群岛 · 繁阿留申群島

Mandarin · pinyin Ā liú shēn Qún dǎo

Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)

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阿: ā · prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
留: liú · stop, halt; stay, detain, keep
申: shēn · to state to a superior, report; extend; ninth earthly branch
群: qún · group, crowd, multitude, mob
島: Look up this written character
岛: dǎo · island

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1–2–1–2–3 · A1 liu2 shen1 Qun2 dao3

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Aleutian Islands (an archipelago of more than three hundred small volcanic islands forming an island arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, between Alaska and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Asia; part of the United States)

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