Kapuloan Kuril
Kapuloan Kuril (, , or ;  utawa ; Basa Jepang:  utawa , ing Oblast Sakhalin, Ruslan, yaiku kapuloan vulkanik kang ngabentang dawané  wiwit lor-wétan Hokkaido, Jepang, nganti Ujung KamchatkaKamchatka, Ruslan, kapisah déning Sagara Okhotsk saka Samodra Pasifik Lor. Ana 56 pulo lan karang. Ambané laaldan iki ana  lan gunggung cacah jiwané ana 19.434 wong.

Kapuloan Kuril dikuwasani déning Ruslan. Jepang ngeklaim loro pulo paling kidul yaiku Iturup lan Kunashir minangka pérangan saka wewengkoné, kaya Shikotan lan Habomai kang isih dipersengkétakaké. Kapuloan kang dipersengkétakaké ing Jepang dijuluki minangka "Teritorial Paling Lor Nagara".

Étimologi 
Jeneng Kuril dijupuk saka Basa Ainu: "kur", artiné wong. Ing Basa Jepang, kapuloan iki sinebut Kapuloan Chishima (Kanji:   , tegesé, Kapuloan Sewu), uga sinebut Kapuloan Kuriru (Katakana:   , literally, Kapuloan Kuril).

Dhaftar Pulo 

Tabèl ing ngisor iki nuduhaké informasi ngenani pulo-pulo wiwit ka lor nganti kidul:

Deleng Uga 

 Gempa Kapuloan Kuril 2006
 Gempa Kapuloan Kuril 2007
 Provinsi Chishima
 Zemlyak

Rujukan

Uga wacanen 

 Gorshkov, G. S. Volcanism and the Upper Mantle Investigations in the Kurile Island Arc. Monographs in geoscience. New York: Plenum Press, 1970. 
 Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, and James Greive. The History of Kamtschatka and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1963.
 Rees, David. The Soviet Seizure of the Kuriles. New York: Praeger, 1985. 
 Takahashi, Hideki, and Masahiro Ōhara. Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. Bulletin of the Hokkaido University Museum, no. 2-. Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University Museum, 2004.
 Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. 2006. .
 Alan Catharine and Denis Cleary. Unwelcome Company. A fiction thriller novel set in 1984 Tokyo and the Kuriles featuring a light aircraft crash and escape from Russian-held territory. On Kindle.

Pranala njaba 

 Southern Kuriles / Northern Territories: A Stumbling-block in Russia-Japan Relationship, history and analysis by Andrew Andersen, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, May 2001
 http://depts.washington.edu/ikip/index.shtml (Kuril Island Biocomplexity Project)
  (includes space imagery)
 Kuril Islands at Natural Heritage Protection Fund
 The International Kuril Island Project
 http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index.html
 Chishima: Frontiers of San Francisco Treaty in Hokkaido  Short film on the disputed islands from a Japanese perspective
 USGS Map showing location of Magnitude 8.3 Earthquake 46.616°N, 153.224°E Kuril Islands region, November 15, 2006 11:14:16 UTC
 Pictures of Cats – Kurilian Bobtail
 Pictures of Kuril Islands
 Kuril Islands at Encyclopædia Britannica