Kyūshū
Kyūshū is the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan. The climate is slightly warmer and more tropical than Honshu, and the southern and eastern coasts are regularly battered by typhoons each year.Kyūshū
Latitude
32.4294° or 32° 25′ 46″ northLongitude
130.991° or 130° 59′ 28″ eastPopulation
13,200,000Elevation
1,280 metres (4,199 feet)Open location code
8Q4GCXHR+Q9GeoNames ID
1857892
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kyūshū” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kioesjoe”
- Albanian: “Kyūshū”
- Arabic: “كيوشو”
- Armenian: “Կյուսյու”
- Azerbaijani: “Kyüşü”
- Basque: “Kyūshū”
- Belarusian: “Рэгіён Кюсю”
- Bosnian: “Kjušu”
- Breton: “Kyūshū”
- Bulgarian: “Кюшу”
- Catalan: “Kyūshū”
- Central Kurdish: “کیووشو”
- Chinese: “九州”
- Croatian: “Kyushu”
- Czech: “Kjúšú”
- Danish: “Kyushu”
- Dutch: “Kyushu”
- Esperanto: “Kiuŝuo”
- Estonian: “Kyūshū”
- Finnish: “Kyushu”
- Finnish: “Kyūshū”
- French: “Kyūshū”
- Galician: “Kyushu”
- Georgian: “კიუსიუს რეგიონი”
- German: “Kyūshū”
- Greek: “Κιούσου”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kiú-chiu”
- Hebrew: “קיושו”
- Hindi: “क्यूशू”
- Hungarian: “Kjúsú”
- Indonesian: “Kyushu”
- Italian: “Kyūshū”
- Japanese: “Kyūshū”
- Japanese: “きゅうしゅう”
- Japanese: “キュウシュウ”
- Japanese: “九州”
- Kazakh: “Кюсю”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ឃ្ជឺស្សឺ”
- Korean: “규슈”
- Latin: “Ximum”
- Latvian: “Kjusju”
- Lithuanian: “Kiūšiū”
- Macedonian: “Кјушу”
- Malay: “Kyūshū”
- Marathi: “क्युशू”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyushu”
- Norwegian: “Kyushu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kyūshū”
- Pampanga: “Kyūshū”
- Persian: “کیوشو”
- Polish: “Kiusiu”
- Portuguese: “Kyushu”
- Romanian: “Kyūshū”
- Russian: “Кюсю”
- Samogitian: “Kiūšiū”
- Serbian: “Кјушу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kjūshū”
- Slovak: “Kjúšu”
- Slovenian: “Kjušu”
- Spanish: “Kyūshū”
- Sundanese: “Kyūshū”
- Swedish: “Kyushu”
- Tagalog: “Kyūshū”
- Tamil: “கியூஷூ”
- Tatar: “Кюсю”
- Thai: “เกาะคีวชู”
- Turkish: “Kiuşu”
- Turkish: “Kyūshū”
- Uighur: “كيۇسيۇ ئارىلى”
- Ukrainian: “Кюсю”
- Urdu: “کیوشو”
- Welsh: “Kyūshū”
- Western Panjabi: “کیوشو”
- Yue Chinese: “九州”
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