Okinawa
Kunigami District
Kin Chō

Kin

Kin is a town located in , , . In 1 October 2020, the town had an estimated population of 10,806 and a density of 290 persons per km2.
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  • Type: Town with 11,000 residents
  • Description: town in Kunigami district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Chimu”, “Chin”, “Kimmu”, “Kimu”, “Kin, Okinawa”, and “Kinmu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kin Kannonji temple and Camp Hansen.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Muramasa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Buddhist temple.

Military installation
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is a United States Marine Corps base located in , Japan. The camp is situated in the town of Kin, near the northern shore of Kin Bay, and is the second-northernmost major installation on Okinawa, with Camp Schwab to the north.

Power station
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is a power station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ginoza and Onna.

Village
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is a village located in , , . As of March 2022, the village had a population of 6,227. The total area of is 31.28 square kilometres, around 50% of the land area of the village is used as the Central Training Area for the United States military. is situated 6 km northeast of Kin.

Village
Photo: Hykw-a4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village located in , , . As of October 1, 2020, the village had an estimated population of 10,869 and a population density of 210 people per km². is situated 9 km northwest of Kin.

Kin

Latitude
26.45608° or 26° 27′ 22″ north
Longitude
127.92604° or 127° 55′ 34″ east
Population
11,000
Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)
Open location code
7QR9FW4G+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 656133715
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1859462
Wiki­data ID
Q1350738
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كين”
  • Asturian: “Kin”
  • Catalan: “Kin”
  • Cebuano: “Kin Chō”
  • Central Okinawan: “金武町”
  • Chinese: “金武町”
  • Czech: “Kin”
  • Dutch: “Kin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلده كين, اليابان”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كين”
  • French: “Kin”
  • German: “Kin”
  • Hungarian: “Kin”
  • Indonesian: “Kin, Okinawa”
  • Indonesian: “Kin”
  • Irish: “Kin”
  • Italian: “Kin”
  • Japanese: “Kin-chō”
  • Japanese: “きんちょう”
  • Japanese: “金武”
  • Japanese: “金武村”
  • Japanese: “金武町”
  • Korean: “긴정”
  • Korean: “긴초”
  • Malay: “Kin, Okinawa”
  • Malay: “Kin”
  • Persian: “کین، اوکیناوا”
  • Persian: “کین”
  • Polish: “Kin”
  • Portuguese: “Kin”
  • Russian: “Кин”
  • Spanish: “Kin”
  • Swedish: “Kin, Okinawa”
  • Swedish: “Kin”
  • Tagalog: “Kin, Okinawa”
  • Tagalog: “Kin”
  • Thai: “คิง”
  • Turkish: “Kin, Japonya”
  • Turkish: “Kin”
  • Ukrainian: “Кін”
  • Vietnamese: “Kin, Okinawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Kin”
  • Yue Chinese: “金武町”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kin”. Photo: Hykw-a4, CC BY-SA 3.0.