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Shuri Castle · Geographic context

Historical place · East Asia

Shuri Castle

Also known as Shuri-jō, 首里城, Sui gusuku

The seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom above Naha on Okinawa, destroyed in 1945, rebuilt, and burned again in 2019.

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