1.   The region comprised a non-contiguous amalgamation of Sulu, the Tawi Tawi island group and the mainland Mindanao provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur.

2.   Asked about foreign policy, Hashimoto said his government would work hard to reduce the burden of American military bases on Okinawa, the southern island group in Japan.

3.   Norman Island is part of which Caribbean island group?

4.   South of the Equator, another eastward deviation allows certain island groups to have the same day as New Zealand.

5.   The Greeks call the island group Imia and the Turks call it Kardak.

6.   Polls show most Bermudians still oppose independence, but support on the prosperous island group in the western Atlantic is growing.

7.   Another tiny island group, the Aeolians north of Sicily, saw bougainvillea blossoms covered by snowfall.

8.   Cagayan de Tawi Tawi lies between the Palawan island group where the hostages seized and the Jolo island group, where the Abu Sayyaf is based.

9.   Cagayan de Tawi Tawi lies between the Palawan island group where the hostages were seized and the Jolo island group.

10.   Cagayan de Tawi Tawi lies between the Palawan island group, where the hostages were seized, and the Jolo island group.