Mifune
Mifune is a town located in Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2024, the town had an estimated population of 17,254 in 7647 households, and a population density of 170 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 99.03 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mifune Dinosaur Museum and 町立御船小学校.
Mifune Dinosaur Museum
Museum
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mifune Dinosaur Museum opened in Mifune, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan in 1998. The museum collects, preserves, researches, and displays the dinosaur fossils found in the area; the collection, which includes Japan's first fossil from a meat-eating dinosaur, Mifunesaurus, numbers some 15,000 items.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kashima and Kosa.
Kashima
Town
Kashima is a town located in Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2024, the town had an estimated population of 10,203 in 4135 households, and a population density of 24 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 16.65 km2. Kashima is situated 5 km northwest of Mifune.
Kosa
Town
Kōsa is a town located in Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2024, the town had an estimated population of 10,004 in 4,441 households, and a population density of 24 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 57.93 km2. Kosa is situated 6 km south of Mifune.
Higashi-ku
Suburb
Higashi-ku is one of the five wards of Kumamoto City, Japan. Meaning literally "east ward," it is bordered by the Kita-ku, Chūō-ku, Minami-ku and also by the towns of Kikuyō, Mashiki and Kashima. Higashi-ku is situated 8 km northwest of Mifune.
Mifune
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Mifune Machi, Kamimashiki district, Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.7146° or 32° 42′ 53″ northLongitude
130.80187° or 130° 48′ 7″ eastPopulation
17,200Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)Open location code
8Q4GPR72+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 739281367OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1857343Wikidata ID
Q1208526
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Mifune” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميفوني”
- Asturian: “Mifune”
- Catalan: “Mifune”
- Cebuano: “Mifune-machi”
- Chinese: “御船町”
- Czech: “Mifune”
- Dutch: “Mifune”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميفونى”
- French: “Mifune”
- German: “Mifune”
- Hungarian: “Mifune”
- Irish: “Mifune”
- Italian: “Mifune”
- Japanese: “Mifune-machi”
- Japanese: “みふねまち”
- Japanese: “御船”
- Japanese: “御船町”
- Korean: “미후네마치”
- Korean: “미후네정”
- Malay: “Mifune, Kumamoto”
- Malay: “Mifune”
- Persian: “میفونه، کوماموتو”
- Persian: “میفونه”
- Polish: “Mifune”
- Portuguese: “Mifune”
- Russian: “Мифуне”
- Spanish: “Mifune”
- Swedish: “Mifune, Kumamoto”
- Swedish: “Mifune”
- Tagalog: “Mifune, Kumamoto”
- Tagalog: “Mifune”
- Thai: “มิฟูเนะ”
- Turkish: “Mifune”
- “御船町”
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