What does 列島 (rettou | れっとう) mean in Japanese?

	The Japanese word
	列島
	is pronounced
	rettou \| れっとう
	means
	chain of islands

	Examples:
	日本は火山列島だ。 nippon wa kazanrettō da. Japan is made up of volcanic islands.
	日本は列島であり、山が多く、森は殆どない。 nippon wa rettō de ari, yama ga ōku, mori wa hotondo nai. Japan is a group of islands with many mountains and almost no forests.
	本日、マグニチュード８．８の巨大地震が日本列島を襲いました。 honjitsu, magunichūdo hachi . hachi no kyodai jishin ga nippon rettō o osoi mashi ta. A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today.
	日本列島にも旧石器文化が存在したことは、岩宿遺跡をはじめ、各地での発掘調査の結果から明らかとなっているが、日本の旧石器文化の遺物には造形芸術と呼ぶべきものはほとんど存在しない。 nippon rettō ni mo kyū sekki bunka ga sonzai shi ta koto wa, iwa yado iseki o hajime, kakuchi de no hakkutsu chōsa no kekka kara akiraka to natte iru ga, nippon no kyū sekki bunka no ibutsu ni wa zōkei geijutsu to yobu beki mono wa hotondo sonzai shi nai. As evidenced by findings from the Iwajuku site to results of excavations around the country, a paleolithic culture did exist in the Japanese archipelago. However, there are almost no surviving artifacts of what could be termed plastic art.

	Examples sourced from tatoeba.org